New York is such a great place to live. Just go and look for an apartment or house in NYC. The demand is higher than ever. Nothing stays on the market very long, and most properties go for HIGHER than the asking price.You can easily verify by checking the N Y Times Real Estate section.
Your native Brooklyn is undergoing an fabulous renaissance,from Park Slope to Fort Greene, as well as the always gorgeous Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill. Brooklyn is considered highly desirable, especially for young families. New Baseball Park in Coney Island for the CYCLONES, tremendous development plans for downtown, the Fabulous redone Brooklyn Museum, gorgeous parks and Botanic Gardens.
Maybe you should think of moving back.
Get off your high horse........from your comments I get the impression you are not a native NYCer.....if I'm wrong, my sincere apologies.
There is no way and no how I can imagine anyone being able to convince me to move back to the place of my birth. I left NYC when I was 22 with all intentions of being back withing 3-5 years. Since then I have become an adult and I am much happier knowing that my husband and I don't have to worry about our daughter playing out in the yard while we are in the house.
The Slope, the Heights and even the Greenes have been undergoing "renaissance" since before I left the City in 1982. I was born in Park Slope, as was my father. My mother grew up there, but was originally from Flatlands. I grew up in East Flatbush, only 5 blocks from the farmhouse my grandfather's family owned for generations prior to the building of my neighborhood.
I repeat my long ago comment. Housing activity in NYC has NOTHING to do with the bloominidiot's smoker ban.
What the housing activity in NYC gives me just further proof the left is all wet about how bad the economy is.
And when you can tell me that you have purchased a house on 2 acres of land somewhere in NYC for under $60,000 I just might reconsider my attitude that the only thing I lost in NYC was my virginity and therefore have no reason to go back.