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I don't see how people can think this **** is ok....
How much does it cost a family in Queens for private school and city income tax? Property tax for a remodeled Queens home is starting to creep up. They are building high taxed homes in Queens all over. If you do the math and overall QoL, it's not that egregious.
How much does it cost a family in Queens for private school and city income tax? Property tax for a remodeled Queens home is starting to creep up. They are building high taxed homes in Queens all over. If you do the math and overall QoL, it's not that egregious.
If you're making 100K the city income tax = the LIRR + subway
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The ways the schools (and parochial schools) were distributed created a major problem in the community; an unintentional and unintended type of cultural, ethnic, and economic segregation. The high school is better because it merged, melted, and eliminated segregation.
I went to school in Boardman which was a totally oppressive hell hole of entitled Nouveau Riche who lived in the newly built (but expensive) landfill-garbage-dump bubble. By the time I got to the high school I was exposed to a less entitled crowd, yeah. Most of my friends were from even less entitled areas of Baldwin, and RVC that fell into the Oceanside district.
I had a much better time of it in High School, it still looks like a dynamic high school and a great place to send your kids. The kids look alert and happy in Oceanside High School. They are also a very diverse lot; which to me is very important.
It's not necessarily growing. NYC is all over the place (so is Long Island, but less so)
NYC has an income tax and Nassau County does not; income tax can be indexed to your income; property tax is more arbitrary. In Nassau you don't get very much value for your taxes. In the foreign country I lived in I was paying $12,000 a year property taxes on a six unit building plus a brownstone; but the sales tax was 15% and the income tax was 50%. However, you paid lots of taxes but you got lots of value. Net net taxes were not such a problem even though they were high. In Nassau the taxes are high and you don't get much value.
I also wanted to suggest a real estate value I found on LI. Hewlett and Cedarhurst have COOP building that nobody wants to live in. You can get a great one bedroom apartment for $100,000 to $125,0000 with low carrying costs in the middle of an expensive area. I did not look into larger apartments but I am sure there is value there.
The down side everything shuts down on Saturday; but there are some nice walking streets, great shopping Walls Bakery, and Hewlett Fish Market.
NYC has an income tax and Nassau County does not; income tax can be indexed to your income; property tax is more arbitrary. In Nassau you don't get very much value for your taxes. In the foreign country I lived in I was paying $12,000 a year property taxes on a six unit building plus a brownstone; but the sales tax was 15% and the income tax was 50%. However, you paid lots of taxes but you got lots of value. Net net taxes were not such a problem even though they were high. In Nassau the taxes are high and you don't get much value.
I also wanted to suggest a real estate value I found on LI. Hewlett and Cedarhurst have COOP building that nobody wants to live in. You can get a great one bedroom apartment for $100,000 to $125,0000 with low carrying costs in the middle of an expensive area. I did not look into larger apartments but I am sure there is value there.
The down side everything shuts down on Saturday; but there are some nice walking streets, great shopping Walls Bakery, and Hewlett Fish Market.
Those are nice places to live. However, the high residential property taxes (in Hewlett) are reflected in maintenance fees that are quite high. The apartments don't appreciate much and I am sure they can be hard to sell. But if you are looking for a nice apartment in a nice area (and, in the case of Hewlett, a great school district), it is a fair deal.
Hewlett doesn't really shut down on Saturday, btw. Cedarhurst largely does, though.
Those are nice places to live. However, the high residential property taxes (in Hewlett) are reflected in maintenance fees that are quite high. The apartments don't appreciate much and I am sure they can be hard to sell. But if you are looking for a nice apartment in a nice area (and, in the case of Hewlett, a great school district), it is a fair deal.
Hewlett doesn't really shut down on Saturday, btw. Cedarhurst largely does, though.
EDIT: The garden apartment co-ops in NE Queens offer much the same in both value and tradeoffs. Some even have pools. Maintenance varies from VERY reasonable to rather high (in the case of the more full service buildings with amenities in Bayside). Schools are good.
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