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bklyngirl
COULD THIS BE MY YEAR??
Member since 6/05 15758 total posts
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Gail
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Picking the area that you're living
we thinking we'll be in the processing of looking for a bigger place in a month or 2. what made u pick the area that you're living in
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Posted 8/14/08 7:17 PM  |
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qtdimps231
LIF Toddler
Member since 11/07 477 total posts
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Diana
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
hey gail! cause merrick is awesome!!! even tho it's near your sister. 
let me know if you need a broker. mine was awesome!!
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| Posted 8/14/08 7:30 PM |
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skew
LIF Adult
Member since 5/05 6794 total posts
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
only wanted north shore and something close to huntington. narrowed the search to northport and bought in fort salonga (northport). the big attraction to FS was the privacy and lot size.
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| Posted 8/14/08 7:40 PM |
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bklyngirl
COULD THIS BE MY YEAR??
Member since 6/05 15758 total posts
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Gail
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
Posted by qtdimps23
hey gail! cause merrick is awesome!!! even tho it's near your sister.
let me know if you need a broker. mine was awesome!!
r u sure u want to be near her where just looking to rent right now. not sure where yet. we're just thinking of different areas that are good
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| Posted 8/14/08 7:45 PM |
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csorisi
My 2 LOVES
Member since 11/05 1984 total posts
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Corinne
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
I wanted a town (love huntington but it was just too far north for us), love the south shore and wanted great schools. We ended up in Sayville and we couldn't be happier!!!!
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| Posted 8/14/08 7:50 PM |
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Kristin616
Member since 8/06 3595 total posts
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Kris
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
wanted north shore
school district was very important
wanted a nice size lot
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| Posted 8/14/08 8:47 PM |
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Tine73
Member since 3/06 22093 total posts
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
It was the first and only house we looked at in the area and fell in love with it. We had been only looking in the Merrick area and one day I decided to expand my search. I found this house, we came to see it and the rest is history. We are further east than we wanted to be, but we really like it here (Bethpage) despite our commutes.
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| Posted 8/14/08 9:03 PM |
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julz33
i run for bacon
Member since 5/05 20584 total posts
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julz
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
We wanted to live close to our families and our jobs. The town we chose is 10-15 mins from our families and 5 mins from my job. We hate commuting!
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| Posted 8/14/08 9:24 PM |
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bigspender
Back to school
Member since 4/07 1385 total posts
Name:
Irene
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
School District
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| Posted 8/14/08 9:41 PM |
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KLSbear
LIF Adult
Member since 1/06 1908 total posts
Name:
Karen
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
We moved here from Boston and were looking for anyplace withing 20 - 30 minutes of where I'd be working. DH would be working from a home office so location was less important for him. Fortunately we found a nice place less than 10 minutes from my office.
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| Posted 8/14/08 9:56 PM |
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sunnyplus3
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Member since 11/05 8749 total posts
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
It happened by chance. We were looking to buy a bigger house in the same area as our townhouse. My DH got a job in our new neighborhood & feel in love with the rural surroundings & the lake. We decided to take the leap & move about 30 minutes east of our old town.
My commute is longer, but DH changed the focus of his business to work in the Hamptons only instead of Nassau and things have worked out better than we could have imagined.
We love the area, the people, the parks.
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| Posted 8/15/08 7:04 AM |
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MrsM-6-7-08
<3
Member since 8/06 4249 total posts
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Nicole
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
We both Work together so we wanted an easy commute.
So we only looked close to the office
Our commute is about 3 minutes everyday
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| Posted 8/15/08 7:46 AM |
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MeeshMosh
last month on leave!
Member since 6/08 4551 total posts
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
we wanted to stay in suffolk county & on the south shore
school district was VERY important b/c we dont plan on moving!!
we also looked at taxes & what kind of road it was on... i didnt want to live on a main road like montauk hwy or something
good luck!
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| Posted 8/15/08 8:16 AM |
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Mrs-D-Girl
Love my fur baby
Member since 8/07 5183 total posts
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
We wanted to move to S. Huntington because we loved everything about the area. The Village, it's close to the parkways, love the neighborhood (It's so quite you can hear a pin drop at night).
I loved that the houses were all different and had it's own personality. Your not on top of eachother either.
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| Posted 8/15/08 8:43 AM |
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Melmel821
Love being a mom!
Member since 5/08 2776 total posts
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Melanie
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
We only rent now but we are in the town I grew up in, Ronkonkoma. I was familiar with it and it's in the middle of our jobs. We each have a 1/2 commute. But it's close to the LIE.
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| Posted 8/15/08 8:54 AM |
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Kissy331
My two miracles!
Member since 5/06 17826 total posts
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Kristen
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
We wanted to be close to family (within 15 minutes) & wanted to be on the south shore....Needed to be close to all major parkways since DH commutes to NYC. I also didn't want to add onto my commute (currently 3 miles).
We searched the surrounding areas for 2 years until we found our house. We could not be happier with the area.
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| Posted 8/15/08 9:15 AM |
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TheWhiteRabbit
Thru the rabbit hole!
Member since 7/06 4412 total posts
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
We are not having kids, so we didn't care about school district.
We wanted rural and private, preferably north shore to be close to our jobs. So we're north shore, eastern LI.
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| Posted 8/15/08 9:25 AM |
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LuvMy2Girls
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Member since 5/05 11165 total posts
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Mommy
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
We picked based on proximity to work(wanted a central location), closeness to shopping centers, major highways, school district, and rating of neighborhood.
(i'm not in NY, so the things that are close to you guys like train, highways, supermarkets can be a trip here)
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| Posted 8/15/08 9:26 AM |
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Jenn627
Laaaaaaaambert!
Member since 5/08 9818 total posts
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Jenn
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
It had a great school district and was walking distance to a village.
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| Posted 8/15/08 10:27 AM |
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ali120206
2 Boys
Member since 7/06 17795 total posts
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
We had to be in NY since DH is in the FDNY. We limited it down to Westchester and Rockland based on both of our commutes and then further limited it to Rockland based on price vs commute time (and the fact it was where DH is from and we have more family and friends here).
We then looked at towns with train stations and their school districts and limited it down to 2 towns and went from there.
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| Posted 8/15/08 10:36 AM |
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Chatham-Chick
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Member since 5/05 10312 total posts
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
We needed/wanted:
*within 1hr-1.5hr commute to major airports & NYC
*at least .5 acre or more
*top rated SD (more from a resale point of view b/c we didn't know if we'd be making it our "long term" home or moving.)
*North Shore (we LOVED Huntington Village and the surrounding communities. Plus my family is from the area.)
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| Posted 8/15/08 11:02 AM |
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MrsRbk
<3 <3 <3 <3
Member since 1/06 19197 total posts
Name:
Michelle
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
School District
Easy commute to both or jobs
Close to NYC (w/in 30 minutes) either by car or train
The community itself. We love the area of NJ that we live in.
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| Posted 8/15/08 11:09 AM |
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
We just moved to Holbrook. Where we lived had to be on the ronkakoma line for DH who works in the city, great schools, close to major roads (LIE and Surnrise) and low taxes and more affordable homees.
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| Posted 8/15/08 11:49 AM |
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ARIELSMOM
Love my Babes
Member since 8/05 5889 total posts
Name:
MEREDITH
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
we didnt want to move to far from our home town b/c DH business was there. The SD was important and property size. We looked for a LONG time and saw many houses before we bought ours. our criteria changed throughout our search.
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| Posted 8/15/08 1:43 PM |
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cindy104
This is my "Baby"
Member since 6/08 1522 total posts
Name:
Cindy
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Re: Picking the area that you're living
Posted by MeeshMosh
we wanted to stay in suffolk county & on the south shore
school district was VERY important b/c we dont plan on moving!!
we also looked at taxes & what kind of road it was on... i didnt want to live on a main road like montauk hwy or something
good luck!
Same here!
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