OT - Westchester guys - house in Scarsdale/Pelham/Chappaqua/Rye?

you mean you and wife and friends are gonna live in one house?

 

Scarsdale, good schools kinda boring, full of car philistines, you know the car as an appliace crowd, had to keep m ine in ct. Westchester great for kids and general living but zip going on at the weekend, If youre into outdoors you need a boat or a wekend place further out.


Train commute is 28 mins to GCT

 

Always the smartazz Chris!

Nevertheless... you are looking at premium territories Jordan. Several of our biggest automobile collectors call that area home.

 

LOL... car philistines is so true... you'll encounter a sea of Lexus SUV's, volvo wagons and SAAB's... but the public schools in Scarsdale and Chappaqua are first rate in Westchester..

 

Tons of Carreras, Merc SL's, AMG sedans- not bad at all.. All of the towns you've mentioned have a very limited racial background- not a place I'd raise my kids..

 

All excellent places to raise a family. There are quite a few other towns along the Hudson as well that are top caliber and an easy train ride into NYC. As with any affluent town you are not going to have tremendous diversity or range of income brackets, but you will have a beautiful environment with the typical issues of wealth and affluence. Not sure where you'll be moving from, but do be prepared for RE taxes that will knock you off your chair and prices that are beyond rediculous for what you get. But as some of the folks here say...you gotta pay to play. Those towns (and Westchester in general these days) are the definition of that statement.

 

I grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, went to Hackley -- and can only say that I would rather live in Utah amongst the Mormons then ever live in Westchester ever again. So obviously, my take is biased.

All are within easy commute via the MetroNorth. Pelham is closer to Mt.Vernon, and although it has a decent public school, every year the Bronx moves farther and farther north (I have had some of the scariest moments in my life in Mt.Vernon). The nice thing about Pelham is that it has somewhat of a "burough" feel to it -- and is the closest to the city. Rye (home of PlayLand), is more old money and has some beautiful waterfront property.

Ah Scarsdale -- I could devote an entire essay to the evils of this town. If you go by public school rankings I would guess Scarsdale rates pretty high. However, the products of Scarsdale are usually the kind of people that yell at waiters for putting to much ice in their ice tea.

Jap/Wasp-aqua offers probablly the largest property lots out of all them -- but also is the farthest from NYC (and probablly the most rural).

I would look at some of the Hudson towns such as Hastings, Irvington, Tarrytown, etc (also take a look at Bronxville). Hastings actually has one of the best HS in the country, and is 15miles from Manhattan -- all while offering a nice waterfront view of the Pallisades. The river towns tend to be wealthy, but considerably less gaudy and outrageous then the other towns you mentioned. Whether you go east or west the closer you are to NYC the smaller the properties are.

Now let me put a totally different spin on things -- I was born in NYC, went to Bank Street then Calhoun, and then my parents got the idea that the suburbs would be better to raise kids then NYC. All I can say is that neither I nor the wife plan to do the same. Both her and her sister went to Stuyvessant HS, and both went on to get doctorates from Ivy League univ. I can tell you that raising a kid in the city exposes them to more multiculturalism, diversity and tolerance then any suburban town (and I'm like the least PC guy out there). There are plenty of better schools in NYC then there are in the burbs. Addtionally, you have some of the best schools in the country in NYC (Stuy, BX Science, etc). Finally, you can always send you kids to some of the private schools like Hackley, Riverdale, Calhoun, Cathedral, etc.

Best of luck with your decesion...

-N

 

Rye is excellent for raising kids. You also get Playland.

 

I think you hit the nail on the head on many points.. JAPsdale and Waspaqua is right... However, having gone to Horace Mann with many affluent kids who grew up on the upper east side, kids in the city growing up to diversity, multiculturalism and tolerance is very subjective at best... I didn't find any of my classmates or acquaintances from private schools in the city to be particularly tolerant or ethnically diverse..

If you're going to send your kids to private school, I think you're better off living in Fairfield Cty. CT or somewhere in the city where property taxes are far lower, than living in a Scarsdale and foregoing the good public school system...

 

you'll see tons of carreras and Benzes, but most of them will be tiptronics or beotchsticks because the owners are either too lazy or don't know how to drive stick..

 

That Kenny... he's a smart guy.

 

We've built and sold over 100 houses in Chappaqua, Scarsdale, Bedford and always have several for sale. Pm me if you're interested.

 

if i dont get something i shall not ask??

 

Didnt think you were being serious Chris... if you look at his orig post, he addressed all of us as friends, then separated with a comma, and further explained he and his wife were house hunting. I figured that was pretty obvious, thus assumed you were making a joke. I was merely being jovial as well.