MELVILLE: Home is a prize for lucky 30

Robin Brooks exclaimed, "Yes!" thrusting her arms in the air and embracing her husband, Travis, as the couple's name was called in a lottery drawing at Huntington Town Hall last night for 30 condominiums to be ...

[Jimmy Crack Corn]

"This just gives me a chance to move up and grow up," she said as her eyes filled with tears. "It's been a long, hard road."

You didn't move up - you were given something.

You didn't grow up - you didn't earn anything.

A long hard road? What? Hoping to win a random drawing was difficult for you?

This person doesn't deserve a bowl or Ramen Noodles, let alone what amounts to a free home.

[ryan]

what are they going to do for all the people that had to move because of high priced housing? The LI natives who were driven out of their home town?

[Realist]

Jimmy Crack Corn wrote:

"This just gives me a chance to move up and grow up," she said as her eyes filled with tears. "It's been a long, hard road."
You didn't move up - you were given something.
You didn't grow up - you didn't earn anything.
A long hard road? What? Hoping to win a random drawing was difficult for you?
This person doesn't deserve a bowl or Ramen Noodles, let alone what amounts to a free home.

In this market, you ignorant chump, the cost of entry to homeownership is impossible without some sort of help.$400,000 for a run-of-the-mill condo?$500,000 for a decent house in a decent town with decent schools? Who can afford to enter that without having something else to sell, or without any help? I'm happy for those who won the opportunity to purchase these units at a reasonable price, but I'm sad that I didn't know about it.

Just to make it clear, my wife and I together make about $150k/year. That still wasn't enough to afford Long Island. We left. It's insane to think that a family doing well financially can't afford to live in a place like LI.

So before you go on shooting your mouth off about handouts and freebies, try to use your feeble little brain to understand the situation from all angles. This is not a new problem.

[Realist]

ryan wrote:

what are they going to do for all the people that had to move because of high priced housing? The LI natives who were driven out of their home town?

Word.

[Rose]

ryan wrote:

what are they going to do for all the people that had to move because of high priced housing? The LI natives who were driven out of their home town?

don't you know? they get a kick in the butt. I wrote to Long Island Housing Partnership for help and never even got an acknowledgement. I don't understand why this country is so good to everyone but it's ordinary citizens. White people seem to be forgotten as human beings.

[WhiteMansThe Devil]

Just another game of let's throw the people a bone, like they really give a crap...lol....what about the other thousands...Nice story, good PR but this will not change a thing.
Perhaps LI can offer people like Realist a 100 yr mortgage that he could pass down to his kids(joke)so
he could afford to stay here. I think ya did the right thing by getting out.

[ufta]

Realist wrote:

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you ignorant chump.... Just to make it clear, my wife and I together make about $150k/year. That still wasn't enough to afford Long Island. We left.

150k isn't enough? Enough for what? I make a hell of a lot less and get by. You must have been looking to live in some real fancy crib, in a pretty neighborhood, so none of the hoodies would eyeball your bride. Glad you packed up left. We don't need the likes of you.

[Jimmy Crack Corn]

Realist wrote:

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In this market, you ignorant chump, the cost of entry to homeownership is impossible without some sort of help.$400,000 for a run-of-the-mill condo?$500,000 for a decent house in a decent town with decent schools? Who can afford to enter that without having something else to sell, or without any help? I'm happy for those who won the opportunity to purchase these units at a reasonable price, but I'm sad that I didn't know about it.
Just to make it clear, my wife and I together make about $150k/year. That still wasn't enough to afford Long Island. We left. It's insane to think that a family doing well financially can't afford to live in a place like LI.
So before you go on shooting your mouth off about handouts and freebies, try to use your feeble little brain to understand the situation from all angles. This is not a new problem.

Mr. Realist, what entitles one (or thirty) people to this help but not someone else? Are we not equals in the eyes of the law? Why does one person get help and another gets told to get bent?

[Realist]

Jimmy Crack Corn wrote:

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Mr. Realist, what entitles one (or thirty) people to this help but not someone else? Are we not equals in the eyes of the law? Why does one person get help and another gets told to get bent?

You clearly have no background in business. It's called selling below market value. They designate a certain amount of their product to be sold at below market value and make it available to the general public. Then, since there are like a million people who want it at the cheaper price, they do the only fair thing and hold a lottery.

Do you also complain about why only the people with the right numbers win Mega Millions?

[Realist]

ufta wrote:

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150k isn't enough? Enough for what? I make a hell of a lot less and get by. You must have been looking to live in some real fancy crib, in a pretty neighborhood, so none of the hoodies would eyeball your bride. Glad you packed up left. We don't need the likes of you.

That's right. I don't want to live next to someone like you in Mastic, Shirley or some other white trash dump - or worse, in Wyandanch, CI or Roosevelt. I have kids I care about and I want to see them educated in a good school system. The options are extremely limited - even for someone making in the mid-$100ks. My choices for something that doesn't need $100k worth of work are pretty much none. I won't spend $350k on some dilapidated sh*t hole in a horrible area just to stay on LI. And frankly, your attitude is representative of the obnoxiousness I'm happy to be away from. People like you make moving away so much easier.

[Realist]

ufta wrote:

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150k isn't enough? Enough for what? I make a hell of a lot less and get by. You must have been looking to live in some real fancy crib, in a pretty neighborhood, so none of the hoodies would eyeball your bride. Glad you packed up left. We don't need the likes of you.

And for the record, Kennesaw is not on Long Island.

[Gary Busey]

Realist wrote:

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That still wasn't enough to afford Long Island. We left.

Good riddance. People like you belong in Georgia.

[Gary Busey]

If people can't afford to live here, get the &&&& out. I'm tired of my taxes paying for handouts for these freeloaders. Gettum out of here and send them down south with the rest of the trailer trash.

[Just Asking]

Realist wrote:

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In this market, you ignorant chump, the cost of entry to homeownership is impossible without some sort of help.$400,000 for a run-of-the-mill condo?$500,000 for a decent house in a decent town with decent schools? Who can afford to enter that without having something else to sell, or without any help? I'm happy for those who won the opportunity to purchase these units at a reasonable price, but I'm sad that I didn't know about it.
Just to make it clear, my wife and I together make about $150k/year. That still wasn't enough to afford Long Island. We left. It's insane to think that a family doing well financially can't afford to live in a place like LI.
So before you go on shooting your mouth off about handouts and freebies, try to use your feeble little brain to understand the situation from all angles. This is not a new problem.

Hopefully you'r move has worked out well for you. Just one question. How is it that on $150K a year you couldnt afford housing on LI. I make about 2/3 of that and I can. Thats while paying all my student loans and other bills. SOme people (and I'm not accusing you) just want to live outside their means. People don't need a giant house and 2 new cars - but many of them want it.

[Bill1154]

Realist wrote:

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That's right. I don't want to live next to someone like you in Mastic, Shirley or some other white trash dump - or worse, in Wyandanch, CI or Roosevelt. I have kids I care about and I want to see them educated in a good school system. The options are extremely limited - even for someone making in the mid-$100ks. My choices for something that doesn't need $100k worth of work are pretty much none. I won't spend $350k on some dilapidated sh*t hole in a horrible area just to stay on LI. And frankly, your attitude is representative of the obnoxiousness I'm happy to be away from. People like you make moving away so much easier.

You sound like you are content with your choice to leave the island. You got what you wanted for your family and good for you. Why must you come into this forum and insult those of us you left behind that are making a go of it here? Why are people such tough guys behind the keyboard?

[Jimmy Crack Corn]

Realist wrote:

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You clearly have no background in business. It's called selling below market value. They designate a certain amount of their product to be sold at below market value and make it available to the general public. Then, since there are like a million people who want it at the cheaper price, they do the only fair thing and hold a lottery.
Do you also complain about why only the people with the right numbers win Mega Millions?

So anyone, including Donald Trump, could enter this lottery?

I'm pretty sure THAT is not the case. So its not really the general public, then is it. So its really a subset, a select few who get to participate, isn't it? So that's not quite the "general public" as you so ignorantly stated, is it? IS IT? YOU DUMB STUPID IDIOT BASTARD BUTTBRAIN?

ANYONE can buy a lottery ticket. But who decides who can enter this lottery to win this nice prize? And what group between the slovenly poor and the comfy-rich got screwed again?

I'll fill it in for you since you're too stupid to understand anything anyway: THE MIDDLE CLASS. As always.

[Realist]

Jimmy Crack Corn wrote:

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So anyone, including Donald Trump, could enter this lottery?
I'm pretty sure THAT is not the case. So its not really the general public, then is it. So its really a subset, a select few who get to participate, isn't it? So that's not quite the "general public" as you so ignorantly stated, is it? IS IT? YOU DUMB STUPID IDIOT BASTARD BUTTBRAIN?
ANYONE can buy a lottery ticket. But who decides who can enter this lottery to win this nice prize? And what group between the slovenly poor and the comfy-rich got screwed again?
I'll fill it in for you since you're too stupid to understand anything anyway: THE MIDDLE CLASS. As always.

You sound like a genius. Well done.