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[quote=Anonymous]Staten Island is a borough of NYC with something like 400k people. It's something like 10 miles in diameter. I'm not super familiar with what it's like to actually live there, but others may be able to give a perspective on that.

Long Island on the other hand (even assuming you're not talking about Brooklyn and Queens, two other boroughs of NYC that generally aren't included when people talk about Long Island, even though they're technically on the Island) includes two whole counties and something like three million people. It has everything from close in, city adjacent suburbs, to rural farmlands. It's 120 miles long. There is no single experience of growing up there.

I grew up on the north shore of Suffolk county. It is rich, white, and pretty racist, IMHO. It's far from the city, boring, spread-out suburban, somewhat like Agrestic from Weeds. But that's one small part of the Island. I'm sure people who grew up in other places have very, very different experiences. [/quote]

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