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North Merrick is fine. Good schools, close to the LIRR station, good shopping plus you don't have the "keeping up with the Jones" attitude of South Merrick.
Just be sure to "grieve" your real estate axes every year or they'll creep up on you.
You grieve your assessment. The tax rate remains the same.
Just about every large city is run by democrats, regardless of red/blue state. So yes, I agree. I also agree the country will be a total disaster within 2 generations. As a 51yr old, I know I've seen the best years of America behind me. I'm content with that.
As for NYC and crime rates, it's garbage. I spent 25 years in corporate America using "numbers" and percents to spin positive stories knowing in reality it's a smoke screen. Nobody who has traveled this country, as I have, really believes NYC and it's surrounding area is anything but a top 10 dangerous city. I don't care what the contrived BS #'s law enforcement puts forth to the public. They are nonsense. And what makes NYC the most dangerous, imo, is it's density and over population and the lack of space. Sure, in a city of 10M or whatever the number is, your percent of being a crime vicitim seems small...but we all know the high randomness of it happening is more than just about any other city in American, including LA and Chicago. Both cities which I recently spent time in and drove around every inch and felt a lot safer vs. NYC.
I haven't been to Chicago since the early 90s so I can't speak to what it's like now, but their weekly shooting numbers put NYC to shame. Granted, this is mostly gang/drug related crime, but it does eventually spill over. Seeing the same sort of criminal-on-citizen videos coming out of there as most other major cities. I have been to LA in the last few years and that place is a disaster, barring the very ritzy areas. Did not feel safe walking around and the homeless population is completely out of control with massive tent cities on major streets. SF is even worse I hear. Cities like Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Camden, etc. have long since become uninhabitable for regular folks.
What you're probably getting at however is that crime in NYC during the bad times of the 80's/early 90s was mostly inner city gang/drug crime, and not random violence on the streets/subways against regular people. A lot of this does go unreported to the police, who won't do anything about it anyway, or they'll play down the circumstances since the entire department is under pressure to hide the numbers. So you're right in that the stats aren't fully believable. None the less, it does stand that NYC is less dangerous than most other major cities, and it's getting worse, not better.
With these factors in mind, I don't know if I'd agree that Long Island is any better or worse to put down roots than the suburbs of most other major cities. Certainly it wouldn't be my first choice, but it's far from the last.
Merrick is 95%+ Asian and white. That's all you need to know. The higher the percentage of white + Asian, the better the neighborhood in NY (especially in NYC, LI, and Westchester). This is a generalization but it holds true in the vast majority of cases. That's just a fact of life in NY state.
Merrick is 95%+ Asian and white. That's all you need to know. The higher the percentage of white + Asian, the better the neighborhood.
And that's the way it should be.
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