Gold Coast Long Island towns ranked best in US for raising a family: report

NY Post ^ | 03/24/2025 | Alex Mitchell

[ChicagoConservative27]

It’s a big score for the north shore.

Nearly a dozen affluent Nassau County enclaves on the Gold Coast, or just a few miles south, made a newly released list of the best places in the US to raise a family.

Kensington, a neighborhood on Manhasset Bay near the Queens border, placed second in the nation out of 18,084 towns in Niche’s 2025 rankings.

The small but elite section of Great Neck — it has a population under 1,500 — trailed only the Philadelphia suburb of Chesterbrook and earned top marks for its overall safety and high-performing public schools.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I bet the property taxes are tons of fun

[stanne]

I grew up there. In Suffolk. On the north shore. Was great. The schools right now - no. Not so much

I’m not there now. I got out early. As rents and real estate started to climb rapidly

MS 13 has really moved in not far enough away

Property taxes—let’s see. A family member has 1700 square feet. Good n hood. Had to send kids to private schools. Pays about $20,000 per year property taxes let’s

On the house I grew up in- taxes are listed $36,000 per year

[ChicagoConservative27]

YIKES

[Socon-Econ]

.....trailed only the Philadelphia suburb of Chesterbrook and earned top marks for its overall safety and high-performing public schools.
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Do the “high performing” public schools teach a woke agenda that prepares students (especially girls) for woke places like Columbia University?

[TexasGator]

#1., #3 PHILLY

#4 Chicago

#5 New Jersey

#6 Chicago

#7 New Jersery

#8 Chicago

#9 Alabama

#10 New Jersey

[stanne]

Yikes indeed. Cost of living beyond that is - one has to make high high six figures to live like we did growing up and even then those neighborhoods are like theme parks. They were Wally and the beach when we were there. Baby boomers ran those areas. Mothers were all home. Bikes just piled up. Ponds were full this time of year. Skaters. No parents except dads on saturdays. Period

My parents would put up some stink paying 35 k to send their kids to school with MS 13 and not learn how to read

[Larry Lucido]

“They drove my family out of Great Neck!”

[Gay State Conservative]

One of the main reasons why Fairfield County,CT is so popular is because there are very,very nice towns....just 45 minutes from Grand Central...that have property taxes (and,IIRC,income taxes) much lower than in Nassau County or Westchester County,NY.

[Gay State Conservative]

There are several towns in Bergen County,NJ that are very,*very* nice and are about 10 minutes from the George Washington Bridge.

[proxy_user]

Does your kid have a new Lexus to drive to high school? We have just the town for you!

[proxy_user]

Now you’re talking real money. LI is kind of showy, but the real wealth is in Fairfield county. It is hidden in the back country, but it is there.

[rellic]

I’ve always had a prejudiced against the East coast of the USA.
I know places in and around Seattle, That beat the pants off you East coast focus groups.
We have more multi millionaires per acre than the east coast does.
Because of teachers unions, many kids go to private schools.
I myself Graduated from a private university as U of W was such a garbage place where indoctrination was more important than education.

We have good schools all over the USA.
But all you guys ever publish is Harvard, Yale, and CUNY type schools.
I’m pretty sure a So. Dakota school of mines engineer would kick butt on any Harvard or Yale engineer.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Holy Crap. Who can afford that? Those people must commute to NYC and be making >$500k/year.

[onona]

Do not sleep on the County Executive Bruce Blakeman.

He is the real deal. JD and Bruce, yes. Bruce and JD, yes.

[stanne]

As I said, high high six figures. Or more. Annually

[Wallace T.]

The largest portion of these favored areas is in the Acela corridor with the remainder mostly in Midwestern cities like Chicago. These are communities of limousine liberals who despise most of the country south of the James River and west of the Fall Line. Chicago, a few other Midwestern cities, the coastal West, and resorts like Aspen and Park City are acceptable, but the rest of the country is to them terra incognita.

[rellic]

Here is where we diverge. And it would be an interesting discussion,
20% of our GDP is produced in the area you refer to(Acela corridor).
When I took economics, I never accepted counting Federal government in the GDP. Since government doesn’t produce anything, it should not be counted in the GDP. It may provide “services”
but that is mostly done at the threat of your freedom
if you don’t comply.
Your Acela corridor economics is mostly Government.
WA D.C. is there.

I could spend a day cutting down trees I own
and use those trees to build a house.
That is both a service and a product.
Getting permission from the government to build that house is BS! And should not be included in a GDP number.

That is my personal fact based view.

[T.B. Yoits]

Reads to me like a lot of multi-property owners are running a "pump and dump" - have bullspit stories run to rope in suckers to buy their properties.

The property values in places like Long Island New York are dropping because younger people have been moving out due to costs and MS-13 has already moved in.

I would also suspect some of these multi-property owners have gotten inside information on how many New York City financial companies are relocating, and how much long overdue work that the Metropolitan Transit Authority has to do, which will cause problems with commuters.