Today I'm gonna share with you the pros and the cons of living on Staten Island that you did not know and we are starting right now. Welcome back to my channel. My name is S. Pierpapolewski. I'm a broker with Supreme Home Sales in New York and I'm also a broker in New Jersey and today I will let you in on five pros and five cons on living on Staten Island so I'm going to let you in on the cons first and then I will share why you actually should live on Staten Island even though the five cons are pretty bad. The first one on my list which is the most annoying one is traffic. Traffic is insane on Staten Island and anytime you drive around except probably in the middle of the night you will encounter some sort of traffic. Going on the highway is a nightmare. We have lots of trucks and cars everybody's to try to get through and if you work in the city this is probably like the longest commute you will ever experience out of the entire tri-state area at all the other boroughs. Now if you live on the south shore you're thinking to move to the south shore. It's a nightmare to travel to the city. Just to give you like a real-time idea a lot of people who come you to work from Staten Island are on the road for like two and a half hours each way. Number two on my list is the nightlife. Don't expect to have too much nightlife going on in Staten Island okay. Yes we do have bars we do have some restaurants a few of the restaurants that offer some DJ dancing on a Saturday night but really that's pretty much it. So if you are a night owl and you love to party Staten Island is probably not the best place for you to live in with the exception that you live very close to the Verizano Bridge or the Staten Island Fair you which allows you the opportunity to quickly get to the city and come back. Number three on my list which is kind of annoying too a little bit it's the variety of the food that we have on Staten Island as partially takeout. Staten Island has majority of Italian food, duh or pizzeria is really so your choices are very limited when you want to order takeout to be delivered to your house. I go through this all the time. Yeah the option of pizzeria food Chinese food Japanese food which kind of limits you to what you can get. For example I love Mediterranean food and if I want to go to the Mediterranean food the only option I have is making the reservation and traveling all the way to a Mediterranean restaurant but the problem is all of these Mediterranean restaurants are located near the Verizano Bridge they don't deliver to the south shore at all bummer don't get me wrong like I love Italian food and Chinese food and Japanese food but I do crave Mediterranean many times which I can't really get. Number four on my list is the wildlife and lots of deer we have here so when you drive around you have to be really careful you never know if a deer or a turkey or a big berth or a raccoon or a possum or a stray cat even going to jump at you and I know you don't want to kill anyone so be very very careful when you're driving on statin island especially when it's dark out and number five on my list is you really need to have a car living on statin island. Most places you cannot walk to you have to drive everywhere so like if you are used to living in the city hopping on the train or the bus or walk to the corner store or the nearest shopping plaza like living in the city you are going to have a difficult time without a car on statin island so that would be something to take into consideration before moving to statin island and now let's get to the good stuff the five pros that you absolutely will love living on statin island because there's no other place like statin island number one is parks did you know that statin island has 170 parks which is like a third of statin island statin island is the greenest borough out of them all we have a total get this 12,300 acres of protected parkland and statin island is only like 21 miles long pretty much every neighborhood or near every neighborhood you would find a park so that's absolutely absolutely awesome number two real estate is a lot more affordable in statin island compared to like all the other boroughs our houses are not cheap but in comparison to other boroughs our homes are a lot more affordable a lot more affordable and they offer more space more land more in yard than you will find in other boroughs for example and that's why many people from Brooklyn and Queens move to statin island every day after realizing that you get a lot more affordable buck right here on statin island everybody wants to move here number three on my list is parking let me tell you something parking is a breeze on statin island and if you own a car you will absolutely love this majority of the neighborhoods on statin island do not have alternate side parking at all believe us and do not have meter parking either you can park your car pretty much anywhere and everywhere without worrying about alternate side parking or feeding the meters we do have meter parking in really condensed commercial areas but overall we do not the next one on my list is golf courses did you know that statin island has four golf courses and three of which are municipal golf courses I mean how much can you fit in in 21 miles and last but not least I think your kids would love living on statin island because children have opportunities to be outside a little bit more most communities are built tucked away from the street or like a main road and offer speed bumps you might hate these speed bumps but the kids are going to love it which allow children to play on the private streets and that makes it a great place to raise a family on statin island this was my take on why you don't want to live on statin island and why you will absolutely love living on statin island choose with caution now you know haha on this channel I talk about living on statin island I talk about real estate and statin island neighborhoods so consider subscribing click on the notification bell like this video if there's a topic or a question that you want to know about let me know in the comments below this video okay thank you for watching see you like here on Monday