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I have friends from my youth who ended up out there when we were in HS. Brentwood and Wyandanch, which were both kind of dumps. Then later, from out in Mastic, which is a genuinely disturbing rural slum supported by group homes, sober homes, halfway houses and crack houses. Now people I know live in Ronkonkoma, Middle Island and Coldspring Harbor.
What's strange to me about LI is that in some ways, it feels almost totally American, in a generic, flat kind of way. Drive down Sunset Parkway through Freeport, you could be in Toledo, Ohio. But at the same time, it's a uniquely New York interpretation of the suburbs, and its population reflects that.
I dunno.
Thoughts?
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