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I know several fellow Long Islanders who moved here thinking their commute to work would be about 1 hour each way. Bad but bearable (in their view). But then they learned the drive to the train, wait for the train, the travel via subway to their work vicinity, and then their walk from the subway to work meant it was more like 2 hours. Which was about four hours daily. Worse with delays and bad weather. Ouch. And these folks are not idiots.
I spent over 30 years as a LIRR commuter on the Oyster Bay line. That was back in the days of the diesel trains too for most of it. So, the only time I had a peach a commute was when I worked at 2 Penn Plaza. That was a dream. My stop to Penn was 48 minutes so most of the time it was just under/ at the hour mark. The rest of the time when I worked downtown and had to take the subway from Brooklyn it was closer to a 90 min commute. Trains were rarely on time with the Oyster Bay line back, then so for much of my career I was door to door at the 1:45 - 2:00 hour mark.
Life is all about choices, they can work on LI and get paid less and stay in their house or they can suck it up and continue to commute like so many others. If one thinks and makes decisions without thinking about the future then they only have themselves to blame.
Well if Mineola and Riverhead were more built up, ppl on LI wouldn't have to travel so far to earn money
Almost like daily migrants
Mineola literally can not be built up anymore. Plenty of jobs south of Jericho. Have you ever been? There’s all new massive apartments off Willis avenue. Then the massive apartments on old country road. Winthrop has taken over Mineola blvd. It can’t physically be built anymore. Mineola is so built up they are expanding to garden city for space for medical buildings on Franklin.
Mineola literally can not be built up anymore. Plenty of jobs south of Jericho. Have you ever been? There’s all new massive apartments off Willis avenue. Then the massive apartments on old country road. Winthrop has taken over Mineola blvd. It can’t physically be built anymore. Mineola is so built up they are expanding to garden city for space for medical buildings on Franklin.
There’s not parking for what is there now.
Well Hempstead then
I haven't been to Mineola since 2020.
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Give it up. It will take 3 generations to weed out the negative name of Hempstead before people accept it as a place you want to go. You could tell me the best restaurant in the world is in Hempstead and nothing is priced higher than $17 and my reservation is for sat at 7pm with a comp of $20. I still wouldn’t go because it’s Hempstead.
Let's face it, most of LI/NYC will be a South/Central American migrant slum in 10 years as millions and millions of dirt poor 3rd world uneducated/unskilled make their way here. Just look at it already.
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Why would you go back to NYC and the cesspool that it is?
Gosh , I think Manhattan ( and parts of Queens and Brooklyn ) is great.
The city has so much to offer , wonderful museums and theaters . Many
parks to walk through. Great restaurants .
Each neighborhood is like a little village .
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Why would you go back to NYC and the cesspool that it is?
Gosh , I think Manhattan ( and parts of Queens and Brooklyn ) is great.
The city has so much to offer , wonderful museums and theaters . Many
parks to walk through. Great restaurants .
Each neighborhood is like a little village .
Filled with homeless, garbage and crazies all over the place...
Thanks but no thanks. I grew up in Brooklyn, still have my street smarts, but cant go back to live there
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