Movin’ out: Locals leaving LI’s North Fork, call it ‘Hamptons 2.0’

[Kamaji]

Movin’ out: Locals leaving LI’s North Fork, call it ‘Hamptons 2.0’

By Alex Mitchell
May 24, 2022

First they invaded Montauk, turning the once-quaint fishing village into the Hamptons lite. Now they’re taking over Greenport, Southold, Mattituck and Cutchogue.

Residents of Long Island’s North Fork are furious about a post-pandemic influx of tourists and transplants turning their jut of land into a crowded playground for tone-deaf city folk, a k a “cityiots.” They party hard in their Airbnbs, drunkenly hop from vineyard to vineyard in private shuttles, callously clog local roads and grocery stores and then decide to extend their stay by building a McMansion.

“Years ago [visitors] were like osprey birds; they were pretty quiet and you would just see them down by the water over the summer,” Ben Heins, 45, a Mattituck resident and lifelong North Forker told The Post. “But now they’re like seagulls; they’re all over the place and they crap on everything.”

Though the affluent region has been transforming from farmlands to a getaway destination for decades — with the breweries, wineries and trendy bars that come with such development — locals say the post-COVID wave has been especially brutal. Outsiders are infiltrating in greater numbers and staying longer than ever before.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/05/24/hamptons-2-0-locals-ousted-from-lis-changing-north-fork/

[rustynail]

The invaders don't like being invaded?

[Kamaji]

The invaders don't like being invaded?

Huh?

[rustynail]

Huh?

"Though the affluent region has been transforming from farmlands to a getaway destination for decades — with the breweries, wineries and trendy bars that come with such development "

[Kamaji]

"Though the affluent region has been transforming from farmlands to a getaway destination for decades — with the breweries, wineries and trendy bars that come with such development "

That doesn't mean that the complainants aren't long-term locals.

[mountaineer]

Airhead celebrities making a big public deal of moving to the Hamptons - Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, etc. - probably didn't help matters. Ooh, look, let's go to the Hamptons, we might see Leonard DiCaprio while we're drinking gallons of wine!! (Just google celebrities Hamptons).

[Kamaji]

Airhead celebrities making a big public deal of moving to the Hamptons - Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, etc. - probably didn't help matters. Ooh, look, let's go to the Hamptons, we might see Leonard DiCaprio while we're drinking gallons of wine!! (Just google celebrities Hamptons).

Indeed.  But the Hamptons are on the South Fork of Long Island; North Fork was, until recently, spared the worst excesses of the Hamptons.  No longer, apparently.