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I complain because the standards nowadays have stooped so low. It's almost as if the next step in human evolution is ape.
You complain cause your, cheap or broke and have no concept of the overhead businesses have. Now go do your own roof with that 4 inch extension. I’m sure it will come out amazing.
You complain cause your, cheap or broke and have no concept of the overhead businesses have. Now go do your own roof with that 4 inch extension. I’m sure it will come out amazing.
gx89, no amount of reasoning will take denseness out of you. Enjoy paying 13k for 6 hours worth of unskilled labor, lunch included.
You complain cause your, cheap or broke and have no concept of the overhead businesses have. Now go do your own roof with that 4 inch extension. I’m sure it will come out amazing.
It seems to bother so many people that others are happy on Long Island, to the point that they try to either convince us that we're wrong or that something's wrong with us! LOL ! Yeah, it's really disturbing to see other people happy where they are!
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Well done...............
HIGH PROPERTY TAXES IS WHAT KEEPS PEOPLE OUT OF LONG ISLAND
I find most parts of Long Island Beautiful.
I find most homes in Long Island affordable.
I find property taxes in most of Long Island highway robbery.
There are about a dozen locations that are both affordable
in price and fair property taxes.
Of those, only half would I consider relocating....all in Suffolk.
HIGH PROPERTY TAXES IS WHAT KEEPS PEOPLE OUT OF LONG ISLAND
If only the overwhelming majority of those taxes didn't go directly into the pockets of people who take advantage of every taxpayer just because they can...
Why do you sound thankful?
I could get behind your idea if it actually went back toward the betterment of our lives, but it really isn't for our greater good. What you consider beautiful is all natural, certainly not helped along by our collective funding. Our ever-increasing funding goes into maintaining rather than improving. Bottom line, other places do it better than us because people are less greedy.
If only the overwhelming majority of those taxes didn't go directly into the pockets of people who take advantage of every taxpayer just because they can...
Why do you sound thankful?
I could get behind your idea if it actually went back toward the betterment of our lives, but it really isn't for our greater good. What you consider beautiful is all natural, certainly not helped along by our collective funding. Our ever-increasing funding goes into maintaining rather than improving. Bottom line, other places do it better than us because people are less greedy.
I'm curious why people think LI is sooo much worse than everywhere else. Our property, local/county taxes are fairly low, offset by high sales and income tax (none of this is LI specific). The burden is school tax. Again, used to be LI specific, now a national phenomenon. Florida: Coral Springs/Sunshine, lower tax, Parkland/Weston? High tax. Why: the schools! Same county (Broward). Austin? Now more expensive than LI but schools a mess (and let's not even start on infrastructure, 20 yrs of straight growth, no public trans and toll roads going up everywhere. Traffic to make the LIE look like a go cart track). Heavy threat of magnets/charters by the influx of expat Cali/NYers bringing their money and "liberal" save our schools mantra = blown out school taxes! NY was first. Due to the upheaval, crime, recession of the 70's we traded no strikes/work stoppages for carte blanche step and contractual raises. Baked into the state constitution. Comparing LI to SC or Montana is ridiculous. Compare it to comparable metros and you mostly find they are developing the same unsustainable problems we have with comparable costs. The difference is LIers are ultra-gullible. They believe in nothing but will fork over dough to any Zeldinesque ding dong who tells them what they want to believe. "Greatest schools in the world? Check." "$30k per student to join the army, check!" In fact, our costs are going down...because we are in decline. If not for the covid exodus out of the city and massive Fed money printing, LI would be dying on the vine.
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