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Health & Fitness

Life Around Here, Part One

These are the things that make life around here really good.

I want to try something with this post.  It will hopefully be the first in a series of articles that in a very random way highlight some of the cool things about life around here.

For background's sake, I grew up in Western Nassau County.  I've lived in five states and all over NYS.  When I tell people where I live, and then say, "Go to Port Jefferson and then slightly east," it's about as close as most get to Miller Place, Mount Sinai and Rocky Point.  My answer to that, it's nice because generally there is not much pass through traffic, people here are aiming to be here.

With that preface, let's come up with some of the things that make "Life Around Here" kind of special.  The ground rules are, there really are none.  I'd love for this to be two-way.  After all as I just pointed out, I am not from around here, although I've been here for eight years now. Without further adieu:

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1. :  Clearly this gets top billing here because it's the season, but it's also a well run program.  I played Little League in Franklin Square, had friends in LL's in surrounding areas and have seen LL play in states as far away as Texas and Oklahoma and as close as NJ.  North Shore gets it.  It's about the games and the kids having fun and enjoying the pleasure of the game.  A great facility certainly helps.

2. Lots of :  Health risks aside, I can eat pizza almost every day of the week (and if my kids had any say in it they would).  The reality is though there are two states of pizza-really good and awful.  Luckily most of the places around here are in the former category rather than the latter, which makes finding a favorite really tough, and for a foodie like me that's a good thing.

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3. Great Schools: Perhaps the biggest reason we landed in Miller Place was the school district.  If you had asked me when I graduated college (it was a really long time ago), I would have struggled to even find Miller Place or Rocky Point on a map.  Not only are the schools great (and it's the people in the schools) but generally they are well run.

So there's a start.  As always, lets get a conversation going.  Comment here, hit me on Twitter or say hello on my personal blog.

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