is new york too expensive compared to california
It’s search engine Thursday!
Usually an actual search query is featured.However, lately there has so many “cupertino union school district lottery date” and “cusd lottery” (what’s that all about?) in the logs that it wasn’t particularly interesting. So, let’s examine a different potential query: is new york too expensive compared to california
The answer is a resounding yes. New York is absolutely too expensive compared to California… the Bay Area should definitely be more expensive. We’ve got sushi, world class universities, El Camino Real – what do they have? Jersey Shore?
Now let’s give credit where credit is due – we are certainly getting there. Out in the suburbs, we’re beating them soundly. Take this for example:
1.47 acre house – with access to Wheatley Schools
![140947216-165[1]](http://www.burbed.com/wp-content/uploads/1409472161651.jpg "140947216-165[1]")
versus this:
Duc & Elliot built good houses in Cupertino
![2059976803-220009[1]](http://www.burbed.com/wp-content/uploads/20599768032200091.jpg "2059976803-220009[1]")
Oh yeah. Beaten.
More importantly, I think we’re even making progress against Doomedhattan with its Doomed Bankers.
For example, some of you may recall that the “smallest apartment in the city” at 175 sqft sold for an astounding $150,000. At the time, it made all the headlines!
Do the math people. Is it any wonder why all those Bankers failed and our VC succeeded? $150,000/175 is a mere $857 per square foot. Palo Alto… even Cupertino can beat that on most days!
Great work everyone! Don’t worry… 2010 is the year we’ll beat Manhattan and take the reign of “most expensive”! It’s our destiny!
February 25th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
They’re basically the same thing. One just happens to be on the other side of the country. Yet they swap the same clueless people back and forth, both cost an arm and a leg, bot are fraught with corrupt governments that have succeeded in taxing a lot of their businesses away and both are losing hundreds of thousands of people per year because- they suck. But I give California more credit though since at least you get nice weather versus NY where the weather is pretty nasty for 8 months out of the year.
February 25th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
New York is absolutely too expensive compared to California… the Bay Area should definitely be more expensive. We’ve got sushi, world class universities, El Camino Real – what do they have? Jersey Shore?
Does burbed need a geography lesson?
Last I checked, the Jersey shore would be in New Jersey, right?
February 25th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
bob, you forgot the part about how they talk funny too.
February 26th, 2010 at 2:50 am
>Does burbed need a geography lesson?
Last I checked, the Jersey shore would be in New Jersey, right?
Only 1 of the cast members was from New Jersey.
February 27th, 2010 at 8:45 am
The difference lies in that Cupertino is a 40 minute drive with nominal traffic to SF where one can park under $4, or a 10 minute drive to SJ.
Old Westbury is an hour+ drive to Manhattan with nominal traffic, a $5.50 toll each way, and $12 for an hour of parking.
The taxes in Cupertino are fixed at 1% the value of the home, should be somewhere along the lines of 13K a year-
This land in Old Westbury is assessed at 4.7 million dollars (which leads me to wonder what “special opportunity the realtor mentions) with combined property and school taxes of $78K a year.
Use the link below to try and decipher it all- this appears to be a 2nd house on a larger piece of property.
http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/mynassauproperty/main.jsp
While Bay Suburbs have insane sticker-shock, the taxes here in Nassau are easily more than double- which will certainly get you over time.
March 4th, 2010 at 5:55 am
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