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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am confused. I literally grew up in Great Neck Long Island. My house was on Great Neck/Little Neck border. Little Neck is Queens NYC and I was on "long island" by like 50 feet I guess. I could walk to LIRR train in two minutes. Was a 3-33 minute train ride. Thats almost the same 30 minute commute you have but I had award winning free public schools. At work we also had people who lived in Rockville, Centre, Garden City and Manhasset which all have award winning schools close in. If you live walking distance to station those towns are like 35-40 minute commutes. At KPMG they are moving headquarters to be more Long Island railroad friendly. It used to be the 345 Park Ave headquarters was perfect as all the Wasp partners lived in Westchester. But now more of the younger ones live in the towns I mentioned and a lot have Hampton Houses if Partners etc. and just a lot easier to live in a neighborhood like Garden City by LIRR and be home in 40 minutes, kids go to great public schools and then have a semi traffic free ride to beach or hampton house on weekend. My old Partner lived in Garden City and he take clients to Keens Steakhouse or Knick games at MSG and often be home before the Manhattan partners as LIRR downstairs. The current Head of KPMG lives in Garden City and so does tons of rich people on Wall Street and Banking and God Forbid they sent their kids to Public Schools as they are really good [/quote] Not OP, but depends where your office is. Mine is all the way downtown and from westchester or Long Island, the commute is long. Not factoring in driving to the train and parking (which I’d have to do because I don’t live walking distance to the train) the commute is: Waiting for the train:5-15 minutes Train: 35-40 minutes (best case) Walk to subway, wait for train: 10 minutes Express subway downtown: 10 minutes Walk from subway to office, get through crowded lobby to desk: 15 minutes Walk That’s 75-90 minutes, without driving to the train and parking. Which is another 10-15 minutes. That’s a very realistic commute to downtown Manhattan from southern westchester or Long Island. It’s a pain in the ass and you won’t see your kids. [/quote] If you can downtown you can do Brooklyn heights, and kids can do basis for 45k. [/quote]
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