North Brunswick vs. Piscataway

[tahiti]

Originally Posted by Homelesssoon

East Brunswick!

Great schools, wonderful water park, fantastic library and senior center, great transportation to NYC, shopping is terrific, little crime. There are older and newer homes. Close to Turnpike, Rt. 1. Take Rt 18 to the Jersey shore and the Parkway South. People move here just because of the Blue Ribbon Schools. I've lived in No. Brunswick and worked in Piscataway. Check them all out and then move to East Brunswick.

no offense to those who like east brunswick, i honestly only know what's posted here about it, and the towers since i had to work there a few times, but honest to God I'd have to eat a gun if I had to deal with that monstrosity knows as Rt. 18 on a regular basis. my impressions of EB are from that highway, and, I know it's wrong, but I can't imagine EB being 1/2 as nice as portrayed here based upon that stretch of road alone. let the flaming begin.

[juliann1977]

Originally Posted by tahiti

no offense to those who like east brunswick, i honestly only know what's posted here about it, and the towers since i had to work there a few times, but honest to God I'd have to eat a gun if I had to deal with that monstrosity knows as Rt. 18 on a regular basis. my impressions of EB are from that highway, and, I know it's wrong, but I can't imagine EB being 1/2 as nice as portrayed here based upon that stretch of road alone. let the flaming begin.

LOL--It is a very nice town, and there are some really pretty neighborhoods, but I'd never live there for Route 18 alone. I need to venture onto 18 once or twice a month, and that is plenty for me.

[emanon]

Originally Posted by vai_a

Hi,

I heard Bridgwater is a good area and and looked at houses there but realised most of newer houses (0-12 years) are close to each other with the backyard running into the neighbours.So we dropped that.
I havent checked out East brunswick.But heard the houses are older.
Finally I saw a house in river road-maplehurst section of Piscataway.It is in the range of low 600's.Cul-de-sac and private backyard.

Does anybody have a feedback on these 3 townships?For piscataway I am looking at riverroad only.
My price range is 550-650
Thanks a lot!

Nobody moves from Bridgewater to Piscataway that is a definate step backwards. Most of the homes in Bridgewater were built in the late 60's when property was not as expensive as it is now. Because of the price of Bridgewater property you get cheaper built homes on smaller lots than the sixties homes.The homes on the big lots in the better sections are out of your price range.

I am truly amazed when home shoppers are looking at Bridgewater and also Piscataway. That's like car shopping at a Mercedes dealers and a Chevy dealer and then comparing prices.

It's all about location, location, location and sorry but Piscataway is not on the list.

BTW the property on Maplehurst backs up to the Dow Chemical property formerly Union Carbide corp. Care to guess at some of the chemicals that found their way on to that property?

E