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You are talking about a relatively small pool of contenders here. In NJ its only 34/565 municipalities that even qualify for this list. Given the selections I think that they did a pretty good job of selecting the best, but you are certainly not talking about the elite towns of NJ by any means, those are just too small population wise. Although I'm surprised Wayne and Hoboken were beat out by Parsippany and Piscataway.
They also exclude "places with a median family income of more than 210% of the state average or a median home price of $1 million or more". I wonder if the family income could have had an impact on Hoboken? Otherwise, who knows how their "proprietary formula" deals with their 45 factors? By not revealing more of their methods, the ranking just becomes more suspect.
You are talking about a relatively small pool of contenders here. In NJ its only 34/565 municipalities that even qualify for this list. Given the selections I think that they did a pretty good job of selecting the best, but you are certainly not talking about the elite towns of NJ by any means, those are just too small population wise. Although I'm surprised Wayne and Hoboken were beat out by Parsippany and Piscataway.
The contenders:
Newark
Jersey City
Paterson
Elizabeth
Edison
Woodbridge
Lakewood
Toms River
Hamilton
Trenton
Clifton
Camden
Brick
Cherry Hill
Passaic
Middletown
Union City
Old Bridge
Gloucester Township
East Orange
Bayonne
Franklin
North Bergen
Vineland
Union
Piscataway
New Brunswick
Jackson
Wayne
Irvington
Parsippany
Howell
Perth Amboy
Hoboken
i think the name of the article should have had a better title like best places to live in a urban or large metropolis (suburban) setting. Very misleading as i thought they were going to pick the very affluent areas of nj.
Whatever be the reason, real estate will see an upward trend in these areas next spring.
Franklin has been on money magazine list before also and prices has appreciated no more or less than rest of central jersey. The town is great in every way except schools and rt 287. And there is no chance either of these are going to improve this generation. Piscataway is even worse than Franklin. This happens when rankings are simply based on number crunching.
You are talking about a relatively small pool of contenders here. In NJ its only 34/565 municipalities that even qualify for this list. Given the selections I think that they did a pretty good job of selecting the best, but you are certainly not talking about the elite towns of NJ by any means, those are just too small population wise. Although I'm surprised Wayne and Hoboken were beat out by Parsippany and Piscataway.
The contenders: Newark
Jersey City
Paterson
Elizabeth
Edison
Woodbridge Lakewood
Toms River
Hamilton Trenton
Clifton
Camden
Brick
Cherry Hill Passaic
Middletown Union City
Old Bridge
Gloucester Township East Orange
Bayonne
Franklin North Bergen
Vineland
Union
Piscataway New Brunswick
Jackson
Wayne Irvington
Parsippany
Howell Perth Amboy
Hoboken
How the hell can any of the bolded be considered overall good neighborhoods?
I'd put Cherry Hill up there with Parsippany for towns with over 50,000 people. People often forget about South Jersey, but Cherry Hill is better than Franklin and Piscataway in almost every aspect.
I'd put Cherry Hill up there with Parsippany for towns with over 50,000 people. People often forget about South Jersey, but Cherry Hill is better than Franklin and Piscataway in almost every aspect.
Which knocks most of the best towns in NJ from contention.
A list of best cities over 300,000 population would not have any from NJ!
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