It's All Relative (.001% related)

[old goat]

I'd rather not know that my airline pilot only works part time.

[bmg97]

Move out to the island. You get way more for your money. I'm amazed how much shit costs there. Although I would love an apartment for the weekends in the city.

[Dexter Rutecki]

I'm not, though I could have been had I wanted to be! You can probably tell where I went (though I couldn't begin to tell you what the mascot/team name is).

Honestly, it was a good school filled with lots of smart kids (and a few dumb ones), but I went to a private middle school, and that was way harder. Always was grateful, however, for the national name recognition/reputation of my high school!

It is interesting that I always assumed a school like yours or Stuy would be the equal of any private school (based on its national reputation), but having become very familiar with NYC private schools and knowing enough about the selective public schools to make a judgment (including hearing basically the same thing you just said from students), I accept that the private schools still have a real advantage. No way around it, and it makes sense for a number of reasons that they have and will continue to be superior (not that a school being harder always means better, but IMO very few of the best schools are not rigorous in some way). Stuy/Bronx Science are always among the very top in the country.

Well if the bankers should live in the prison in Thomaston Maine, I guess so, yes.

I guess you're saying you have a better place to put them? Let's hear it, smart guy.

Move out to the island. You get way more for your money. I'm amazed how much shit costs there. Although I would love an apartment for the weekends in the city.

Yeah, quite honestly, my point here (to the extent that there even is one (as TR noted), except to express a bit of amazement) was not to complain about the ridiculous RE situation that exists here (thanks, Obama! I mean, thanks foreign money laundering shady types). If we move away it would be far away as my attitude is that if we're getting out of the city we'll really get out of the city. I could maybe see living out on the North Fork somewhere. My refrain to the wife over the years has been 'TAHOE!!!', but she has never taken it very seriously (she doesn't drive, has never lived outside Manhattan).

[TahoeJ]

I'd rather not know that my airline pilot only works part time.

I'm friends with a bunch of full time pilots and half the time they are exhausted, so I'd argue the opposite.

[Danno]

It is interesting that I always assumed a school like yours or Stuy would be the equal of any private school (based on its national reputation), but having become very familiar with NYC private schools and knowing enough about the selective public schools to make a judgment (including hearing basically the same thing you just said from students), I accept that the private schools still have a real advantage. No way around it, and it makes sense for a number of reasons that they have and will continue to be superior (not that a school being harder always means better, but IMO very few of the best schools are not rigorous in some way). Stuy/Bronx Science are always among the very top in the country.

it is funny, all those parents paying a shitton for their kids to go to private schools, and while their kid IS getting a better more rigorous education over Science/Stuy, their kid is not getting what they probably are really paying for: the better chance of getting into a top school.

[Dexter Rutecki]

Actually, that's where the rubber hits the road, so to speak (probably the single biggest reason they're paying $40k/year tuition). I do wonder what the Ivy admission rates look like--I've seen admission lists for a few of the top independent schools and they still seem to get a pretty high percentage into the most selective colleges. Don't know if places like Stuy compare.

[Danno]

Well, I have only seen anecdotal evidence. But a huge number/percentage of my friends went to top schools (Ivies or Little Ivies). So it sure seemed like Science was putting large numbers of kids into those schools. Note that I am not saying that those private schools don't put kids into top schools, just that I am not sure they do so at a rate significantly higher than Science/Stuy.

Edit: I went there a LONG time ago, so no idea what it is like now.

[stuckathuntermtn]

East 96th?
I think there are still people who won't go above that, but I know that line is disappearing. Except for all the projects and Metro North coming up above ground.
My mom lived over there for a while. You next to the Mosque?

[old goat]

I'm friends with a bunch of full time pilots and half the time they are exhausted, so I'd argue the opposite.

good point

[JimmyCarter]

I just want to say Maine is open for business to put your bankers in our prisons.

Thomaston is probably not going to work for that. I don't even think the gift shop exists anymore

[Benny Profane]

Move out to the island.

Fuck no. Then you're stuck on the island. Upper Westchester or Fairfield, near a train stop.

[Danno]

Fuck no. Then you're stuck on the island. Upper Westchester or Fairfield, near a train stop.

gotta agree with Benny on this one.

[cat in january]

The gift shop is still there. The old prison was torn down and a new one was built outside of town.

[gravitylover]

gotta agree with Benny on this one.

Yeah LI SUCKS. There are a couple of villages up the HV with train stations that are much nicer places to live and are that much closer to better outdoor opportunities like skiing, mt biking and hiking.

[liv2ski]

Yeah LI SUCKS. There are a couple of villages up the HV with train stations that are much nicer places to live and are that much closer to better outdoor opportunities like skiing, mt biking and hiking.

I guess I am just a West Coast Homer, but as Dex said "Tahoe" is where my attention often drifts off to.
And spending $10M for a place is just retarded, but clearly NYC is a different world, that I can not even wrap my head around.

[Dexter Rutecki]

East 96th?
I think there are still people who won't go above that, but I know that line is disappearing. Except for all the projects and Metro North coming up above ground.
My mom lived over there for a while. You next to the Mosque?

Yeah, the projects are right there, but in the 90's I lived 2 blocks from some pretty big projects in Chelsea and it was no big deal (did the same on LES in the 90's as well). Lotsa nice places in NYC a stone's throw from housing projects. I think Tuffy109 (remember him?) lived on E 100th for awhile--East Harlem is still not nice in a lot of places, but it's not what it was.

We're on the mosque's land (building has a ground lease with the mosque). Fortunately we'll be high up and facing away from the mosque, so we won't hear the call to prayer. And I figure with President Trump they'll all be somewhere else, anyway.

[St. Jerry]

Fuck no. Then you're stuck on the island. Upper Westchester or Fairfield, near a train stop.

Lower Westchester is where it's at.

[OldLarry]

Yeah, the projects are right there, but in the 90's I lived 2 blocks from some pretty big projects in Chelsea and it was no big deal (did the same on LES in the 90's as well). Lotsa nice places in NYC a stone's throw from housing projects. I think Tuffy109 (remember him?) lived on E 100th for awhile--East Harlem is still not nice in a lot of places, but it's not what it was.

We're on the mosque's land (building has a ground lease with the mosque). Fortunately we'll be high up and facing away from the mosque, so we won't hear the call to prayer. And I figure with President Trump they'll all be somewhere else, anyway.

I lived on 93rd Btn park and lex for 10 years. My brother had the apt before me and sis in law lives there now. Awesome hood for young families and great if you want to stay.

And yes, you are right on foreigners driving up prices in the high end. But they are hiding money, not washing it. Pooty poot can take your place on the black Sean but not the one in the finger 57th...

Shame Kinsale is gone- that was my local...

[riser4]

Yeah LI SUCKS. There are a couple of villages up the HV with train stations that are much nicer places to live and are that much closer to better outdoor opportunities like skiing, mt biking and hiking.

And that is why prices up and down the HV have gone through the roof. All those city folks.