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Hello, I'm a new graduate student at Rutgers, and my husband works in NYC. We are looking for a safe place to live in between NB and NY. Do you have any suggestions?
We don't have driver's license, so we have to live somewhere near the train station. I'm thinking about Elizabeth, and there is a lovely apartment called Chilton Towers I like very much. But I'm wondering if Elizabeth may be too dangerous...Is it really so unsafe to be around the train station at night? We sometimes might get home rather late...
Besides, do you have any other suggestions? Thanks a lot!
In order from south to north (along the train line): New Brunswick, Highland Park, Edison, Metuchen, Woodbridge (Iselin), Rahway, Linden, Elizabeth, Newark, Jersey City, NYC!
Without a car, it's going to be tough, especially with winter coming. I think Rahway has some choices walkable from the station. NB itself is safe and lively around the station area even late at night, and there are several apartments.
Tough to survive in NJ without the licence. TO go to market, drug-store movies etc, u need a car. Its not like Manhattan.
40% of the population doesn't own a license and does just fine , 1.8 Million use Public Transit up from 400,000 in 2000.... You can walk most places like a movie theater or drug store , that doesn't require a car nor does a market.
New Brunswick, Highland Park, Edison and Metuchen are all close to train stations. Look in these towns. Maybe Woodbridge also. There is a large Asian community in the Edison-Metuchen-Highland Park area with
Asian markets/businesses if that matters to you. Elizabeth is pushing it.
You can walk most places like a movie theater or drug store , that doesn't require a car nor does a market.
That is quite a generalization.
In my case, the nearest supermarket and drug store are 3 miles away, and the closest movie theater is ~10 miles away, with no sidewalks or public transportation leading to any of these places.
My environs are not unique, and there are surely tens of thousands of other NJ folks who live just as far--if not further--from these amenities than I do. Not everyone lives--or wants to live--in an urban environment.
That is quite a generalization.
In my case, the nearest supermarket and drug store are 3 miles away, and the closest movie theater is ~10 miles away, with no sidewalks or public transportation leading to any of these places.
My environs are not unique, and there are surely tens of thousands of other NJ folks who live just as far--if not further--from these amenities than I do. Not everyone lives--or wants to live--in an urban environment.
Yes but if you live in a secluded area like the one you say you live in, you need a car to get around. I know a guy who moved to NJ two years ago from South Philly for work and his PA drivers license has been suspended and he is having a lot trouble re-activating it even in NJ. He is staying at a house on the Jackson/Freehold border miles from anywhere and is always whining about the difficulties to get around to even a little convenience store where he can get a cup of coffee. It really sucks to live in place like that if you cannot drive.
I drive (have had my license for almost eleven years - since my 17th birthday), and still find places like that to be boring, sure they are awesome to venture into for "joyriding" purposes, but not places that I would ever actually want to live. I am sure though that my perception is a lot different from someone who is from these areas that is used to living in a rural area. I lived my whole life in a city-ish to suburban environment and that is what I am used to.
In my opinion, if you live anywhere in NJ, you need a car just for personal convenience. If you are within walking distance to mass transit into the city, use it for that. But even for local purposes like basic shopping needs and essentials, you need a car for that convenience. Living in New Brunswick, Metuchen or Rahway will not make those things any easier. And I seriously do not believe that 40% of the people in NJ do not drive unless you count in children under 17.
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