On Long Island in regards to why neighborhoods remain white, black, Spanish, Indian even in 2022 is an easy explanation.

Dual listing is allowed and real estate is hyper local. My town had three major real estate brokers. All three lived in town. All three don’t share listings.

When a home such as when I sold house it was 5 percent commission with 3.5 percent if realtor sells.

So the seller would rather pay less commission and agent wants to get paid more commission.

The realtor is a neighbor who lives in same town. When I was house hunting I used at least 20 different realtors. I was interest Manhasset, Rockville Centre, Garden City, Lynnbrook and Oceanside. Each town was different realtors.

And a lot done open houses.

It also goes back to zoning when homes were built. Laurel Hollow where really rich people live is two acre SFH zoning with zero commercial properties. Every street in town has zero street parking non residents and parks are resident only with gates. It is not changing. They don’t even allow schools or churches!! Kids go to school in Oyster Bay.

Meanwhile some towns like Roosevelt which is all black homes are very small, almost zero zoning

So OP, where did you end up? Westchester?

Scarsdale in Westchester is really nice as are parts of CT.

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Anonymous wrote:how is garden city these days? was super beautiful, cute downtown, great schools. train is right there
great neck is closer to the city...there are many nice pockets. A lot of the cost has to do with how easy the commute is to manhattan...

Garden City flat out would not sell homes to black people when I worked there. Are they still that way?

Are you in your 90s? Because that's the only way your comment makes any sense.

Wrong.
https://www.wra.org/WREM/Feb20/Steering/
https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/real-estate-agents-investigation/

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Coram. Anywhere but there.

Haha! I lived there for a few years as a kid. Do you happen to know La Bonne Vie apartment complex? We started there and then moved to a sfh, and then moved to the south shore.

Rockville Centre has good schools and short train ride, plus closer to the beach.

I grew up in Glen Cove on the North Shore. Granted I haven’t been back in a few years I would suggest Port Washington if u have to commute to Manhattan. If not, maybe Sea Cliff or Oyster Bay.

Growing up there in the 80s Great Neck was overwhelmingly Jewish/Asian as was Roslyn. Locust Valley and Manhasset had the few remaining Wasps. Garden City was a mix of wasps and Irish Catholics. Those were the strongest school districts.

Anonymous wrote:Op here-- thanks to those with the helpful responses-- even the advice to say 'on Long Island'!

Certainly Westchester has its appeal (certainly seems more easy to manage coming from DC) but have heard good things about the Long Island public school system and also wondering if living ON Long Island would allow us to test into the NYC magnet school system down the road without actually having to live IN the city. Long Island seems a little more diverse than Westchester (but maybe I'm completely mistaken) and this is important to us as well. Our budget is roughly 1m but could likely go a little higher.

We'll look into some of the areas that have been suggested. What are the differences between North and South Great Neck? Thanks again to everyone who offered helpful advice. Really appreciate it.

abbreviated version: great neck south is heavily east asian, great neck north is heavily jewish (mainly persian these days)

Anonymous wrote:Long island is conservative…the farther east you go the more Trumpers you find.

Some towns yes, some no. You can look up the voting data to see what towns went for trump and avoid those.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how is garden city these days? was super beautiful, cute downtown, great schools. train is right there
great neck is closer to the city...there are many nice pockets. A lot of the cost has to do with how easy the commute is to manhattan...

Garden City flat out would not sell homes to black people when I worked there. Are they still that way?

Are you in your 90s? Because that's the only way your comment makes any sense.

It’s very Asian and Indian now.

No, it isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how is garden city these days? was super beautiful, cute downtown, great schools. train is right there
great neck is closer to the city...there are many nice pockets. A lot of the cost has to do with how easy the commute is to manhattan...

Garden City flat out would not sell homes to black people when I worked there. Are they still that way?

Are you in your 90s? Because that's the only way your comment makes any sense.

It’s very Asian and Indian now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how is garden city these days? was super beautiful, cute downtown, great schools. train is right there
great neck is closer to the city...there are many nice pockets. A lot of the cost has to do with how easy the commute is to manhattan...

Garden City flat out would not sell homes to black people when I worked there. Are they still that way?

Are you in your 90s? Because that's the only way your comment makes any sense.

Long island is conservative…the farther east you go the more Trumpers you find.

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Anonymous wrote:It's "on" long island, not "in."

Check out Jericho, Manhasset, great neck.

different PP but "in" is totally correct grammatically. you're an arse.

maybe....but New Yorkers say "on Long Island". iykyk

New Yorkers have their own local lingo

Anonymous wrote:how is garden city these days? was super beautiful, cute downtown, great schools. train is right there
great neck is closer to the city...there are many nice pockets. A lot of the cost has to do with how easy the commute is to manhattan...

Garden City flat out would not sell homes to black people when I worked there. Are they still that way?