Anonymous wrote:Op. Have you ever been to Long Island, or are you just trolling to try to make these new area forums popular? I think it's the latter. Large swaths of Nassau County are full of NYC transplants who continue to commute to their jobs there. The Hamptons are full of NYC residents on weekends and in the summer. It's hardly an 'insular' place.

Wow, your NYE party must be a real bore, 21:49.

Anyway you didn't read the original post. Of course Nassau County is filled with "NYC transplants." It's a generation or two removed from old time Brooklyn and Queens. The post is about transplants to the NYC metropolitan area from other parts of the country.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants to the NYC area that move to the suburbs prefer Westchester, Connecticut and New Jersey over Long Island. What makes LI so insular and unappealing to transplants?

Racism

Yep. I don't know if it's still the case since I moved out of NY, but in Garden City they used to not sell real estate to black people or jewish people.

Anonymous wrote:Op. Have you ever been to Long Island, or are you just trolling to try to make these new area forums popular? I think it's the latter. Large swaths of Nassau County are full of NYC transplants who continue to commute to their jobs there. The Hamptons are full of NYC residents on weekends and in the summer. It's hardly an 'insular' place.

Meh, it is kind of insular. People from outside the NY area generally don't choose to move there.

Op. Have you ever been to Long Island, or are you just trolling to try to make these new area forums popular? I think it's the latter. Large swaths of Nassau County are full of NYC transplants who continue to commute to their jobs there. The Hamptons are full of NYC residents on weekends and in the summer. It's hardly an 'insular' place.

Anyway, forget the joker at 21:49.

My guess is being an island with worse access to other parts of the BosWash corridor plays a role. That and it being largely postwar era white flight tract housing.

...from which you'll probably incessantly be watching your phone for DCUM threads.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True. But I'm not posting dumb threads calling an island of 8 million people insular.

And what intelligent and insightful threads have you started, pray tell.

None tonight. I'm going out to a party right now-here in insular Long Island.

Anonymous wrote:True. But I'm not posting dumb threads calling an island of 8 million people insular.

And what intelligent and insightful threads have you started, pray tell.

It's an island. It's hard to get anywhere. Travelling anywhere on the east coast means fighting through NYC traffic.

My aunt and uncle live on LI. Took them 3 hrs to get home from my cousins house in suburban NJ a few days after Christmas. I can get to my cousins house in 4 hrs from NoVA. Westchester, Rockland, NJ and CT are just easier places to get to and from.

The post was about the SUBURBS.

LI = Nassau/Suffolk.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone posting questions like this at 9 pm on New Year's Eve should not be calling ANYONE insular.

You're on dcum too.

Get tha fock outta here!

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True. But I'm not posting dumb threads calling an island of 8 million people insular.

Anonymous wrote:Transplants to the NYC area that move to the suburbs prefer Westchester, Connecticut and New Jersey over Long Island. What makes LI so insular and unappealing to transplants?

Racism

Anonymous wrote:Someone posting questions like this at 9 pm on New Year's Eve should not be calling ANYONE insular.

You're on dcum too.

Get tha fock outta here!

Someone posting questions like this at 9 pm on New Year's Eve should not be calling ANYONE insular.

Transplants to the NYC area that move to the suburbs prefer Westchester, Connecticut and New Jersey over Long Island. What makes LI so insular and unappealing to transplants?