Reviews & Comments
Newburgh, NY
WARNING Very Expensive Void Surrounded by Rocks... -
3/24/2006DON'T WASTE BIG BUCKS TO MOVE TO ROCKS! OK I have lived from California to Maine to Key West to Tucson, visited places all over the world, and finally moved to a state, county, and city that are so pathetic in almost every category that I had to post this warning--I have hated every second living in New York, Orange County, and Newburgh. Moving here from Nashville and living across the street from the Mayor of a teenie village has me and my cats and my friend running back anywhere South of New York! Should have stayed in Tennessee. This place easily climbs to the TOP of the worst places I have lived in my life. CLIMATE: It has the beautiful scenic mountains for a few warm months and that's it. The rest of the year all you see is bare sleeping trees amongst the icy rocky slopes because it snows on Thanksgiving and on the first day of Spring too. So, Winter days of 30 degrees are basically 8 months here, so if you like equal seasons then stay South unless you like Winter all the time! STATE: New York has the worst hassle of state laws I have ever witnessed. Getting a driver license or car registration takes so much paperwork with points and you'll just want to keep your old license because a US birth certificate is worth ZERO points here. If you live outside NYC then there are no laws to protect you against fraud and rental slumlords and high taxes for everything. I am used to a good amount of wildlife around the house with lots of birds, but I hung out a bird feeder last summer and have not needed to refill it because even the birds hate this place! COUNTY: OK the Cable TV, Phone, Internet service here has been great and that's the good part. Sleepy little towns with absolutely no character, tiny roads, poor signs, little culture, few activites, little fine dining, nothing special, very boring unless you like staying inside looking out at rocks. Radio? What's that? Barely any radio stations work here, so you better have stallite radio or lots of CDs! Except for the few highways, everything is tiny one-lane roads with no shoulders and the rudest drivers I have ever seen--Yes even worse than Atlanta or Miami or DC easily. The speed limit is 70 everywhere and if you have a BMW you can just cut people off before you go down the mountain. If my work at West Point was not located here, I would think this was just a backneck do-nothing place to go to get away from the hussle and bussle of the Big Apple. Basically a place for NYC folk to live the so-called count