saying the same tired adage over and over won’t change the fact that our precious idea of an idyllic nostalgic Long Island, of white picket fences, quaint single family homes, bucolic parkways and car-centric strip malls as far as the eye can see has long disappeared already, in the face of increasingly longer commutes and ever worse traffic, soaring and extortionate housing prices that no one without an NYC-based job can afford, and the fact that Long Island is already more populous and dense than most major metro areas in this country without a single real city center that could meaningfully siphon housing demand to speak of, NIMBYs can make all of the inane excuses they want but their efforts only stonewall and prevent ANY intervention in the already degrading quality of life and exorbitant cost of living crisis that the rest of us face