Choosing the Suburbs Over Brooklyn
Are would-be Brooklynites flocking to the suburbs? The cover story in yesterday’s real estate section of the Times looks at how relatively cheap home prices in the suburbs are luring New Yorkers who find they can get way more bang for their buck in parts of Westchester, Connecticut and Jersey than in the city. While…
Are would-be Brooklynites flocking to the suburbs? The cover story in yesterday’s real estate section of the Times looks at how relatively cheap home prices in the suburbs are luring New Yorkers who find they can get way more bang for their buck in parts of Westchester, Connecticut and Jersey than in the city. While the article mostly focuses on the widening price gap between Manhattan and suburban properties, it notes that some people who would’ve bought in Brooklyn are also finding the suburbs cheaper:
Ludovic and Fabienne Ledein, who live and work as jewelry designers in Dumbo, visited nearly a dozen lofts in Dumbo, Red Hook and Williamsburg looking for something to buy for less than $600,000. They needed enough space to work at home and to put up friends and relatives from Europe. But what they wanted cost more than twice what they could afford…They found their answer in Westchester County, in New Rochelle. For about $600,000, they bought 1,350 square feet in the newly renovated Knickerbocker Lofts, a converted factory downtown that was built 117 years ago.
Any readers contemplating a similar move?
Cashing Out of New York City [NY Times]
Photo by uicukie.
“you don’t think it’s a positive thing that people love where they live, 3:33??”
Not 3:33. Sure, but since when does loving where you live make it ok to judge and criticize everything else outside of your own bubble? To me, that’s pretty lame, and a sign of a narrow-minded provincial person. Not very cosmopolitan, AT ALL. Hmm… the irony.
you don’t think it’s a positive thing that people love where they live, 3:33??
while some of the comments might be outrageous, the main feeling i get is pride of one’s home and neighborhood.
if people in the suburbs felt half as proudful about where they live, they wouldn’t be such soul less places to live, i don’t think.
the spirit and the drive of the residents of new york city are what make it so special and unique. everything else is secondary.
in the suburbs, it’s about the house. the size of it, the quantity of bedrooms, the number of garages and the amount of square feet.
here it’s about so many more things.
Wow, Brooklyn seems like such a nice place with really great, positive, and kind people. I can’t wait to move there. What a community.
After living in NYC for several years now I can’t imagine going back to surburbia. It’s quite boring with no excitement. Also, surburbia is full with franchises with very few mom and pop shops. The hell with that. I lovev and need the city!
Well yeah, 2:21 we know bad grammar is everywhere. 2:09 was pointing out the irony of bad grammar used by someone who was bragging about world renowned universities in Raleigh/Durham. So now there’s no sense of irony outside NYC either?
Oh please. A cursory read of any Brownstoner (and Curbed, for that matter) thread makes me think that the worst spelling and grammar offenders reside in the 5 boroughs. It’s truly shameful.
Hilarious, 2:09! Yes everybody, move to NC where you too can have bad grammar.
“actually UNC and Duke University are world recognition”
That statement tells you everything you need to know.
If you already know people in the ‘burbs and move there, you’re better off. But I tried it once, before I met my husband, to live outside the city and I didn’t make any friends at all there. I always hear from people in the ‘burbs how lonely it is, even from those who in all other respects like it and plan to stay. They have no friends in the town they’re living. Just in the city.
Also, I know Raleigh/Durham very very well. There’s some cool culture sure, but the person who said it had more culture than NYC has never been to NYC, or if they did they went to the Empire State Building and Ground Zero, caught a show then went home claiming they’d seen NYC. Totally clueless.