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Old 08-10-2018, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Northeast states
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It might only be 25 miles away, but the logistics are horrific. That's a nightmare commute. It's not a reverse commute since you're taking the same bridges everyone who is going into nyc has to take. Tappan zee(10 miles extra) is a mess and gw is impossible. 1 hour long wait to get across the gw bridge is normal at rush hour. Also, the toll is outrageous. You'll get hit with tolls in nj and then the bridge toll, then ny thruway toll if you take 95. To get on the Garden state will cost 2 bucks each way with ezpass. Then once you get over the bridge you can't touch the cross bronx, you hit more traffic on the hutch. It's jammed going north in the morning. And you can't connect to 95 properly if you take the gw to cross bronx. 287 is jammed if you take the tappan zee. Real mess anyway you go. And you'll also hit traffic around stamford even going north at rush hour nowadays.
George Washington is 12.50 with ezpass and almost $20 without it during rush hour times that one way.
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Old 08-10-2018, 10:37 AM
 
Location: JC
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I suspect most of those NJ plates belong to NY residents who skirt the law to avoid higher insurance rates.
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Old 08-10-2018, 10:40 AM
 
Location: Northeast states
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I suspect most of those NJ plates belong to NY residents who skirt the law to avoid higher insurance rates.
How New York and New Jersey insurance rates lower than Connecticut?
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Old 08-10-2018, 10:42 AM
 
Location: JC
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How New York and New Jersey insurance rates lower than Connecticut?
I thought the topic was NY residents commuting into CT for work.

Insurance is expensive in NY, especially within the city boroughs. Cheating the system by using rental properties, vacation homes, or the parents outside the city is a popular game played by many. Choosing NJ over CT is more popular IMO because you Connecticut folks pay a town vehicle tax.
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Old 08-10-2018, 02:36 PM
 
Location: Live in NY, work in CT
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It might only be 25 miles away, but the logistics are horrific. That's a nightmare commute. It's not a reverse commute since you're taking the same bridges everyone who is going into nyc has to take. Tappan zee(10 miles extra) is a mess and gw is impossible. 1 hour long wait to get across the gw bridge is normal at rush hour. Also, the toll is outrageous. You'll get hit with tolls in nj and then the bridge toll, then ny thruway toll if you take 95. To get on the Garden state will cost 2 bucks each way with ezpass. Then once you get over the bridge you can't touch the cross bronx so you hit more traffic on the hutch. It's jammed going north in the morning. And you can't connect to 95 properly if you don't take the gw to cross bronx so you're stuck on the hutch. 287 is jammed if you take the tappan zee. Real mess anyway you go. And you'll also hit traffic around stamford even going north at rush hour nowadays.

That was the point I was making, thanks. I realize 25 miles in and of itself is very doable, I often have commuted that distance
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I suspect most of those NJ plates belong to NY residents who skirt the law to avoid higher insurance rates.
Actually NJ insurance is similar to NY, sometimes even more (more than most of the suburbs, less than the boros but not by much). For a long time, the two states GEICO would not insure were NJ and Massachusetts (another problematic car insurance state).

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I thought the topic was NY residents commuting into CT for work.

Insurance is expensive in NY, especially within the city boroughs. Cheating the system by using rental properties, vacation homes, or the parents outside the city is a popular game played by many. Choosing NJ over CT is more popular IMO because you Connecticut folks pay a town vehicle tax.
You are correct about people not doing that game with CT because of the vehicle tax (or MA for that matter as they have a smaller vehicle tax than CT but higher insurance rates). Most people I have heard of doing it doing even use a NJ address, they either try for a Pennsylvania one (I know someone who did this with a vacation home address in PA) or upstate NY (NY is mostly expensive for insurance downstate, and especially in the boros, LI, and just north of the City), though the latter is tricky because you are using the same state's DMV to register your car.
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Old 08-10-2018, 04:43 PM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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All one has to do is sit on the shoulder on I95 or Merrit on NY side and see how many NY plates go into CT at 8am. Vise versa... I see so many CT plates crossing over the NY border.

There's obviously more people living in CT, working in NY than people living in NY working in CT.
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