just got back from being upstate.
here’s my simple statement for the day: upstate is nice.
i think that new york is quite unique in that you can drive for an hour and be in the middle of hundreds of thousands of acres of trees and forests.
and i really don’t understand the hamptons phenomenon.
here’s new york vacation real-estate in a nutshell:
hamptons: absurdly expensive(1 acre 2 bedroom house: $1,750,000), 3 or 4 hour drive away from manhattan on the l.i.e which is the ugliest road on the planet, range rover traffic jams en route to the farmers market, beaches crowded with hedge fund managers looking for coke and sex, etc.
upstate: not expensive(25 acre 5 bedroom house: $1,750,000), 1 or 2 hour drive away from manhattan on beautiful tree-lined roads, so much space that there are never traffic jams, mountainous state parks with waterfalls and trails, etc.
the hamptons were probably fantastic 40 or 50 years ago, but now?
ugh.
i saw a documentary on the hamptons, and it was best summed up with a depressing house that 12 wall street guys were renting for the summer.
they had a sex-closet with a grimy mattress in it in case any of the renters got lucky…
again, ugh.
the hamptons has/have become an overpriced, disgusting petri dish, filled with compromised coke fueled 5 a.m sex between hedge fund employees.
ok, i’ve reached my cynical quotient for the day.
-moby
