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PiyoPika566
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Stephanie
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Thinking of Suffolk...
what are some nice towns (good SD) that's not too far out? Both FH and I work in Manhattan.
TIA 
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MommaG
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Babylon and West Islip are nice. The Babylon train (also close to WI) has an express to Manhattan that is about 47 minutes. I think the West Islip SD is supposed to be better though.
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| Posted 9/11/05 10:16 AM |
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dee7772
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Huntingtonhas some very nice areas and they have a very good train line as well.
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| Posted 9/11/05 10:29 AM |
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Tah-wee-ZAH
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Huntington has some nice areas but the HS is a mix of all of the areas so.... We live in East Northport (Northport SD #4). Some houses in East Northport are Commack and some Elwoord. Both of those districts are good but the taxes are much higher. It's an excellent district, the taxes are lower due to LIPA being located in the area. It's probably the lowest taxes in the area. We also relaly like how it has a town... feels like New England. We have TWO train stations close by... East Northport and Greenlawn and there's always Huntington which runs more trains.
We are moving but not leaving the school district... just straight across town. Our new house is 1/2 an acre and taxes are a little less than $9,000. although I'm sure they will go up a bit after the purchase.
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| Posted 9/11/05 3:38 PM |
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danielleandscott
My new 71 Super Beetle
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Scott
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Posted by PiyoPika566
what are some nice towns (good SD) that's not too far out? Both FH and I work in Manhattan.
TIA
What happened to the house in Seaford? I thought your bid got accepted?
Scott
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| Posted 9/11/05 6:03 PM |
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danielleandscott
My new 71 Super Beetle
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
West Islip
East Islip
Islip Terrace
Babylon Village
Kings Park
Scott
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| Posted 9/11/05 6:09 PM |
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nov04libride
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Posted by danielleandscott
East Islip
Islip Terrace
Scott
I commuted from the Islip train station for over a year and it was not good. There are no direct trains and the ride was an hour and 15 mins with many stops. There were very few trains coming home nights. The best train was the direct from Babylon, but it is very difficult to find parking there.
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| Posted 9/11/05 6:12 PM |
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Laura1976
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Laura
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Posted by Tah-wee-ZAH
Huntington has some nice areas but the HS is a mix of all of the areas so.... We live in East Northport (Northport SD #4). Some houses in East Northport are Commack and some Elwoord. Both of those districts are good but the taxes are much higher. It's an excellent district, the taxes are lower due to LIPA being located in the area. It's probably the lowest taxes in the area. We also relaly like how it has a town... feels like New England. We have TWO train stations close by... East Northport and Greenlawn and there's always Huntington which runs more trains.
Greenlawn has a great school district (Harborfields) and is very close to the Huntington train station.
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| Posted 9/11/05 8:01 PM |
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danielleandscott
My new 71 Super Beetle
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Greenlawn is really nice....and commack is too
Scott
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| Posted 9/11/05 8:07 PM |
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lvdolphins
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Greenlawn
East Northport
Northport
West Islip
Smithtown
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| Posted 9/11/05 8:12 PM |
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PiyoPika566
talk to the hand
Member since 5/05 1436 total posts
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Stephanie
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Posted by danielleandscott
Posted by PiyoPika566
what are some nice towns (good SD) that's not too far out? Both FH and I work in Manhattan.
TIA
What happened to the house in Seaford? I thought your bid got accepted?
Scott
it you read about the latest?? The sellers came back wanting 14k more than they proposed after our initial offer (they wanted $15k more than our initial, so now it's $29k more than our offer), so I told them we will not go a penny higher than we first agreed on and they have a week to decide 
... so instead of putting all our hopes into this house, we are going to look at others, just decided today maybe we should consider suffolk as well...
now we are looking at Babylon and Huntington.
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| Posted 9/11/05 8:23 PM |
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danielleandscott
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Gotcha - thats a lot more money then you offered...
Found this house for you
Click
Scott
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| Posted 9/11/05 8:28 PM |
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PiyoPika566
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Posted by danielleandscott
Gotcha - thats a lot more money then you offered...
Found this house for you
Click
Scott
wooo, very nice! Thanks Scott!
I wonder how the commute is like to Kings Park?
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| Posted 9/11/05 8:31 PM |
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danielleandscott
My new 71 Super Beetle
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Scott
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
no idea - worth looking into
Scott
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| Posted 9/11/05 8:32 PM |
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PiyoPika566
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Stephanie
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Posted by danielleandscott
no idea - worth looking into
Scott
an hour and 20 mins on the LIRR! 
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| Posted 9/11/05 8:37 PM |
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julz33
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Posted by PiyoPika566
Posted by danielleandscott
no idea - worth looking into
Scott
an hour and 20 mins on the LIRR!
Yes, but I grew up there and it is my DREAM town. I love everything about it. The train ride kinda long though.. but location near the beaches, parkway, nice little main street,it is just my favorite town
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| Posted 9/11/05 8:47 PM |
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Erica
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Posted by Laura1976
Greenlawn has a great school district (Harborfields) and is very close to the Huntington train station.
We are in Greenlawn...and DH goes to Huntington for the train...its about 1 hour 20 min door-door for him
we also bid on a house in Centerport (just north) and the commute to the station was only a tiny bit longer...same school district
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| Posted 9/11/05 10:51 PM |
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Diane
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
If you are thinking further out east, Mount Sinai and Miller Place are really good districts too, but expensive taxes.
I LOVE East Northport where I grew up.
Message edited 9/12/2005 10:55:38 AM.
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| Posted 9/12/05 9:45 AM |
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Redhead
You Live, You Learn
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Jennifer
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
Posted by PiyoPika566
what are some nice towns (good SD) that's not too far out? Both FH and I work in Manhattan.
TIA
well that is the beauty of the LIRR....
But i like Commack, Smithtown, Dix Hills
Kings Park, Northport, Greenlawn,
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| Posted 9/12/05 10:51 AM |
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DjPiLL
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Re: Thinking of Suffolk...
If you go a little further out... you can hit Ronkonkoma... Holtsville... Holbrook... and you can commute from Manhattan on the Ronkonkoma Express.
You can get a lot more house for your money out there.
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| Posted 9/12/05 11:03 AM |
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