Ten things you don’t need in Florida (New York, Hicksville: apartment, condos)
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I left Nassau County in 01 and will never look back – Best move I ever made. Fla has its issues but where can you go and want to live that doesn’t????
I was thinking about NY this time of year and although the tree at Rockefeller Center is a must see I couldn’t help thinking about:
1- Rock Salt
2- Mittens and ear muffs
3- Long johns
4- Snow shovels
5- Coat closets (yes oddly enough they don’t build a house in Fla with a coat closet in the foyer)
6- Galoshes
7- Heated car seats
8- Windshield Wash with anti-freeze
9- Key warmer or lock deicer spray
10- Snow tires or chaines
However sunscreen – a kayak – windsurfing board – fishing or golf gear would help
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One thing that they never have to worry about in my part of NY (upstate)
HURRICANES!
I'd take a snowsotorm over a hurricane any day. I've lived through both in NY and NC. Although you do have the occasional hurricane to hit the NYC area, that's about once every 30 years or more.
Miami is just as much of a slum in areas as NYC. I saw TONS of bums in Orlando, Jacksonville, and even Ft. Lauderdale.
Id rather get a parking ticket in NY than some sniper shooting at me along the freeways in Florida.
The reason it takes 2 hours to go anywhere is because 9 million people call the city home, and for good reason: NYC is awesome. You cant beat it. Period.
Prices of houses? Id rather pay 500 grand for an old house, built with solid materials (not these crappy quality McMansions everyones buying), than one of those 500K beach huts in Ft. Lauderdale (you know, those homes that look like trailers that you see all over the place) and watch it blow away with each hurricane.
The only reason people die more often in snowstorms is because we live in them and go to work in them, regardless. Hurricanes dont killl many because everyone packs up and leaves. Next time theres a hurricane, dont board up windows, dont leave town. In fact, go out driving and playing in it! See how many die if you do that! Please, we all know snowstorms are far less dangerous than hurricanes.
Steve -0 Hey - I'll always be a New Yorker at heart but lets not foget you got plenty of other bragging rights as well (metro NY)
Highest paid police in the nation (Nassau) For WHAT parking and speeding tickets PLEASE!!!!
And let’s not talk about NY’s Finest – can they run a city block without having a heart attack (too many donuts )
Oh….. the homeless in cardboard condos that’s a good one
2 hours to go anywhere any time of the day
The Shopping Mall capitol of the world
The lifetime achievement award for political corruption
A 50’s built dump for 500K with 10k a year taxes
More people die in one year’s NE snowstorm related incidents then all of the Hurricanes in the last 20 – I’d rather rebuild my house!!!
Smelling the BO on the person you’re forced to stand next to on the subway
You are absolutely right. Remember, NYC is the Greatest Place in the world IF you make in the mid Six figures and don't mind spending $700,000 for a one bedroom apartment and you do things depending how 'trendy' they are. It is very hard to make it on five figures even if you are single and live in the unfashionable parts of Queens like near the Belt Parkway around JFK
And the shopping mall capital of the world is right especially where you are judged by what you wear & what you drive (On Long Island) but you must use credit cards because you are only making $70,000 a year at some firm in Nassau county.
And it is so much fun getting around the city after a snowstorm especially in that black snow and trying to dodge cars & SUV's who make sweeping turns without looking.
And most cops in NYC & Long Island have become glorified traffic agents especially for such horrible crimes like driving without a seat belt, having an expired inspection sticker or a broken tailight.
You are absolutely right. Remember, NYC is the Greatest Place in the world IF you make in the mid Six figures and don't mind spending $700,000 for a one bedroom apartment and you do things depending how 'trendy' they are. It is very hard to make it on five figures even if you are single and live in the unfashionable parts of Queens like near the Belt Parkway around JFK
And the shopping mall capital of the world is right especially where you are judged by what you wear & what you drive (On Long Island) but you must use credit cards because you are only making $70,000 a year at some firm in Nassau county.
And it is so much fun getting around the city after a snowstorm especially in that black snow and trying to dodge cars & SUV's who make sweeping turns without looking.
And most cops in NYC & Long Island have become glorified traffic agents especially for such horrible crimes like driving without a seat belt, having an expired inspection sticker or a broken tailight.
Nick,
With all of the animosity you have towards NY and the metropolitan region, why do you continue to live here? For peace of mind, and contentment in your soul, wouldn't it be better for you to relocate?
For as many bad things I can say about NY I can say good x10 However unless you have 5-10 mil behind you your really living a middle class rat race. You have a Lexus (or a Hummer) instead of a toyota and your house is on the north shore instead of Hicksville. A million net worth in NYC or even on Long Island is chump change.
I prefer to take my chump change where the sun shines, visit and still experience the best NY has to offer. But that me!
Shores, all the thing you don't miss about New York are the very same things I live here for. I love snow storms, mittens, wood burning fires, skiing, snowmen, brilliant fall colors, frozen lakes, bright stars, tall evergreen forests and mountain peaks. L.I. nad NYC are a bit much and have there set back as you mentioned but upstate is beautiful. Florida is nice for vacations, after ten days it's time to go.
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