That’s a no-brainer for me. Stay in the City. Smaller commute. Better culture. Better politics.
I assume you are an East Village kind of person if you own a business there. Apologies to my friend @gailcalled, but Larchmont is not the kind of place you would fit in, unless you come from a wealthy background. Larchmont is known for the “Larchmont lockjaw” which is to say, they talk with their teeth touching and they sound like upper crust Brits. Or they sound like they are tryint to sound like upper crust Brits.
When I canvassed up there, it was some of the toughest turf ever. But then, rich people don’t want to support progressive causes and they don’t like uppity college kids on their door steps asking them to support the equal rights amendment.
So, no, no, no. I would stay as far away from Larchmont as I could. Harlem is so much better, and apparently, it’s getting to be a pretty racially mixed area. The architecture is pretty cool. There’s a lot of great stuff going on there. And believe me, you do not want to spend any more of your time commuting than you absolutely have to. You are in NY, so people think less of an hour commute, but to me, a half hour commute is the outside edge, and that’s only if it’s a bicycle commute. Otherwise, 20 mins is the max for me.
Good luck.