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You could go further out to Long Island but rent isn't cheap here either and you end up trading time for money if you like visiting NYC. From about the middle o

by nickjj 3y ago

You could go further out to Long Island but rent isn't cheap here either and you end up trading time for money if you like visiting NYC. From about the middle of Long Island it's a 90 minute train ride that costs $28.50 round trip during off-peak hours. Driving really isn't any cheaper due to tolls, parking fees and new policies being put in place to tax driving through popular areas of Manhattan[0]. The allure to going out this far is there's a lot of suburbs, parks, bodies of water, etc. but at the same time it's not a huge ordeal to visit NYC for day trips. [0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-12/nyc-congestion-pricing-is-coming-to-manhattan-as-soon-as-april-2024 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-12/nyc-conge...

kjkjadksj 3y ago
I presume at this point people are also considering places like pennsylvania. You can get the same exact woodsy eastern township suburia experience in long island as you could all over the east coast, but in the vicinity of philadelphia or even baltimore you can also still take day trips to nyc on a train, and are saving money hand over fist over anything in long island to boot so you could take even more of them. I think its a matter of time before these regions explode, if they aren’t already, just from the outflow from the nyc region.
- woodruffw 3y ago
  People have been saying this for over 20 years; it hasn't materialized yet. A large part of NYC and the immediate surrounding area's appeal is that you don't have to do day trips: everything is 30 minutes away, or less.
  - kjkjadksj 3y ago
    Isn’t the more suburban part of long island more like 90 minutes from the city? 30 minutes from the city I imagine limits your geography severely to these uber expensive parts of the area where space is a premium.

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You could go further out to Long Island but rent isn't cheap here either and you end up trading time for money if you like visiting NYC. From about the middle o

by nickjj 3y ago

kjkjadksj 3y ago
I presume at this point people are also considering places like pennsylvania. You can get the same exact woodsy eastern township suburia experience in long island as you could all over the east coast, but in the vicinity of philadelphia or even baltimore you can also still take day trips to nyc on a train, and are saving money hand over fist over anything in long island to boot so you could take even more of them. I think its a matter of time before these regions explode, if they aren’t already, just from the outflow from the nyc region.
- woodruffw 3y ago
  People have been saying this for over 20 years; it hasn't materialized yet. A large part of NYC and the immediate surrounding area's appeal is that you don't have to do day trips: everything is 30 minutes away, or less.
  - kjkjadksj 3y ago
    Isn’t the more suburban part of long island more like 90 minutes from the city? 30 minutes from the city I imagine limits your geography severely to these uber expensive parts of the area where space is a premium.