[EinNYC]

This community is almost too beautiful to look at. Everything is gorgeous and perfect. You don't see kiddie toys out on the lawns or jungle gyms or bikes leaning against garages. Matter of fact, I've never seen anyone out walking when I have occasion to drive through the area. Reminds me of "Stepford Lives" instead of Wives. I imagine there is a LOT of clique stuff going on there behind the hedges. I have never seen a home there which would sell for less than a million+ dollars either, so this "starter home" stuff this article talks about seems odd.

Heck, the asking price for homes in MY neighborhood with postage stamp lawns is now around $950,000. A couple years ago, it was more like $565,000. Location, location, location. And, the Chinese are buying up everything in sight for cash, no mortgages, which greatly drives up the prices. Young non-Chinese couples now can't afford to buy homes near their parents. Something ain't kosher, that's for sure.

[nopardons]

Don't assume and then post that as "fact".

My cousins lived in Great Neck, and we used to visit a LOT. Nothing at all "STEPFORD" nor particularly "cliquey" about that place; at least not when I knew it.

And as far as prices for homes/apartments in NYC and/or Long Island are concerned, it's ALWAYS been like this, since a bit after WW II!

What sounds like extremely expensive now, is only so outrageous because unlike past times, prices have NOT been adjusted during a massive recession nor a Depression ( which we were in for both terms of wee barry !), as it once was. It's called INFLATION; another term which the news refuses to talk about.

[Jim Noble]

Garden City High School Class of ‘68 here.

It’s not perfect, never was, but the schools when I went there were terrific, and free.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Garden City is a beauty. A true gem. It’s expensive to live in, but a beautiful place.

[Mears]

We had friends in Garden City and I visited them MANY times over the years,from 1960 to the mid nineties.

It seemed very kid friendly.

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