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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it's one of the last two. I have friends on Long Island and their areas are nice (Wantagh/Massapequa) but overall, I find Long Island to be sort of eh. I could never live there.

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what people who don't know any better think Queens is.

The later half? Suffolk county? Upstate townie New York. Even the way they dress feels a decade behind.

...parts of Roosevelt and Central Islip remind me of the shit end of Rugby Road: decayed Victorian houses split into dozens of apartments, antediluvian farmhouses covered in cheap vinyl siding and split into two- and three-family housing

Was looking to move out there and that strip of Cortelyou around Rugby LITCHRALLY had a bar / flower shop along with no less than ten Thai restaurants

Lawrence). Over there in Valley Stream aint too bad neither. ROSEDALE WUTUP!

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has all the earmarks of a LI nabe. & for your info you aint telling me nothing new hun, I've been living there since I was 19 when I moved over from Far Rock by way of Crown Heights, Bklyn, so....

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We can agree that Rosedale is part of Queens
What I disagree with is the LI association simply due to proximity. The neighborhoods look the same sure, but nobody from Rosedale is gonna be claiming LI the way Valley Stream would try to claim Queens in the late 90's/early 2000s. You're literally the first person I ever seen do that.

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did.

I just merely gave it a shoutout due to my own familiarity with the place not to mention its proximity to Valley Stream, so again, don't tase me ma.

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so I respect it.

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..even as a kid, i always recognized how similar that shit is.




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would it be LI, Westchester or Jersey?

I like the Hudson River towns on the New York side, the Metro-North > LIRR, traffic isn't nearly as bad, and whenever there's a serious storm or blizzard, LI and North Jersey get destroyed while the communities on the Westchester side of Long Island Sound fare pretty well.

North Jersey is far more appealing than it was 15 years ago.

and expensive for no reason.

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I live in Central Jerz. Middlesex Cty. It's good down here.

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There are a number of towns in Morris, Essex, and Union counties that I would consider.

Went out there once to play ball and go to a club later. So much suburban attitude, lol. A lot of dudes doing their best rap video imitation. Forgot what part I was in, and this was in the late 90s so times might have changed since then. Don't know, won't know because I'll probably never go to long island (outside of the two boroughs) again.

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My boy graduated from a community college in Utica, I went there for his graduation and black wanna be tough douchebaggery was at a peak when we went clubbing

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I think there's combinations of 'overdoing' things like drugs, crime, 'acting tough', typical of any suburban environment that needs to prove itself, as well as genuine examples of conditions that create instances of behavior typically thought of as 'urban'.

I've seen confederate flags out there, so it has severe disconnect with its neighbor in NYC, but there is a porousness between the city and the island that sometimes blurs or magnifies differences

when i first moved to new york. i was staying in Patchougue. i couldn't believe that it looked so similar to the atlanta suburbs where i had come from, or other middle america suburbs. very country/shabby suburbs.

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i don't know that i'd call it a dump, sheesh.

boring as hell, yes.

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it's a dump
Ronkonkoma is a dump
Wyandanch is a dump that is currently being wrapped in pretty tissue paper (saw TONS of new development along the Railroad when I took the LIRR back home to Jamaica)

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I go out there frequently because of family
if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be caught dead
I feel how I feel about it
*shrug*

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the New York i saw in rap videos.

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my parents and a few aunts & uncles moved to Harlem but everyone else stayed in Long Island

then completely white bread relatives in Bay Shore who obey Treach's Ghetto Bastard manifesto about not coming to the ghetto

ANOTHER NAME DROPPING ALERT, PLEASE BE MAD ABOUT IT: relatives have personally known everyone from Craig Mack and EPMD to Azie Faison

so basically I'll never go to the super dangerous parts of L.I. but everywhere my family stayed was almost too boring. A big weed dealer in Wyandanch wouldn't last two weeks in Harlem

I flew in to Islip and stayed in Great Neck. We got lost on the way from the airport bc we drove east so I saw more of the island than I shouldve. That mug is huge (which I knew from reading maps).

The west part is, of course, Brooklyn. Then there's Queens (I stayed in Flushing once too) then Nassau and Suffolk, et al. Nassau is just like other suburbs I've seen in Chicago and STL and SF. Same with Suffolk. Nothing unique going on.

fuck you.

to Montauk which is the easternmost part of the Island
For all that shit I coulda flew to Florida!

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>That mug is huge (which I knew from
>reading maps).
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for real that thing sons Rhode Island as well as that little hook thing massachussetts is known for

....they don't realize i'm talking about southern Westchester County

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I just never paid attention to anything north/east of NYC before I actually moved up there.

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...it was to visit a friend who had cycled into a sober home out there from prison. Coincidentally, a guy I'd designed some stuff for owed me money. I figured I'd collect the dough first.

Dude, we drove down a dirt road without street lights, fucked out bungalow houses on either side. Legit crackhead zombies on some Walking Dead shit. Guy who owed me money sold coke and steroids to locals, and spent the entire time we were there peeking out his front window like Malcolm X, shooting crackheads with a bee bee gun to keep them away from our car.

Took that dough and bought my man and his girlfriends dinner at a cheap seafood spot nearby.

My wife was like "That was the first time since Iraq I seriously wished I'd had a rifle with me."

Mastic was real.

Patrice O'Neal is on that one, right?

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my wifes best friends lives there. really loved it, all the people were really cool

Fuck the Suffolk county sheriff's department by the way.


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I gotta say we are on the come up. LI is the first place in NY to get a chic-fil-a! Yes Chic-fil-A is coming to LI. It will be out in Port Jefferson which is near Stonybrook University. Yes I know there is a CFA in NYU but that doesnt count. This is a full brick and mortar.

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