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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]

I did that that commute for 20 years. But since I worked on Wall Street I did not do Great Neck. But I lived on Southshore. I took LIRR to Brooklyn, the two train right to wall street stop right by my office. I drove to train but it was only a 2-4 minute ride as I lived 3/4 mile away and had a parking pass. My train was nearly always on time in morning. Waiting at best 3-4 minutes. If you switch at Atlantic Terminal much shorter to walk to 2 train. I could do it door to door in one hour 15 minutes easy.

Wow here is my comute on days I did not work late leave work at 515 pm, I could make it to Brooklyn in train running for 540pm train no problem. Around 45 minute train ride around 5 minutes off train and get to house. I be home around 630 pm. Hardly late at all. And on train I could nap, read email, catch up work laptop as have a hot spot, heck drink a beer have a snack. You can legally drink LIRR and they sell beer on platform. It was my most relaxing time of day. Out of Brooklyn less crowded. When I got home 630 pm I was decompressed. DMV traffic so bad I often end up home at almost 630 pm all stressed from traffic. Not relaxed from watching netflix on train or napping. [/quote]

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