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My career in securities/banking is mainly front office - most of my current and ex colleagues in the same line of work who live in NJ are from Essex and Union counties for obvious reasons, as well as to be able to connect to the PATH at Newark Penn. Livingston, So. Orange, Westfield and Cranford were the most common neighborhoods. The few people I met in the same companies who were from Monmouth (eg, Manalapan, Freehold) were from back office jobs like payroll, HR, paralegal etc. as they could afford to leave by 5pm. There were newspaper articles about Manalapan a few years ago (NYT) and if I recall, it mentioned that a lot of ex-Brooklyn and SI people settled there beginning the 1990s so maybe that would suggest police, firefighters, teachers.
If your career requires you to work extended/unpredictable hours and you need to go to financial district/WTC, it's better to live in Essex or Union if not Jersey City or Hoboken.
middlesex? huh. never knew there were any jobs there.
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It's a choice thing again, you're not forced to work in NYC. You can take a paycut and work in NJ, it may actually work out better in the long run with a reduction of commute time and tax savings.
The other issue is some folks rather live really far away from NYC just to save on property taxes. Their property tax in South NJ maybe 20-30% less than Central or North NJ but they're spending a lot more $$ on commute and the time lost is unrecoverable.
I know many people who are forcing themselves to leave probably by 7am just to get in by 9am and leave work at 6-7pm and arrive home by 8-8:30pm.
Family dinner time doesn't exist anymore and I doubt there's much family time for many Americans.
of course not. but there's only so far a commute can get until it makes no sense from a work/life perspective. imho, most of monmouth county encroaches on that boundary.
unfortunately north NJ and westchester, etc. have NOTHING appealing to me.
middlesex? huh. never knew there were any jobs there.
of course not. but there's only so far a commute can get until it makes no sense from a work/life perspective. imho, most of monmouth county encroaches on that boundary.
unfortunately north NJ and westchester, etc. have NOTHING appealing to me.
Have family and friends who moved to Monmouth County from SI and Manhattan. In all instances it was more about finding a place they could afford with *ahem* reasonable taxes. Some were lucky and managed a transfer to their company's NJ offices. Others are allowed to work from home a good part of the time thus only have to head into Manhattan for say meetings or whatever. The rest either found employment in NJ or are sucking it up and commuting. It is really that easy and there aren't many options.
No, NJ doesn't have a lot of industry and what it has is shrinking as businesses are driven out of the state (and often into New York) for a host of reasons. Only real big business NJ has that NYC cannot steal is tourism. You saw this when Big Boy (Chris Christie) made a bee line for Washington D.C. and cozied up to Obama post super storm Sandy.
You've obviously done your homework and know the answers; parts or all of areas like Middlesex, Bergen, Essex, Union counties will give you the desired commute and living you seek. However you'll pay dearly for that luxury.
i just want to find a decent paying job that i can commute to via car and still live in monmouth county.
seems tough and like there's a massive lack of industry.
Go to LinkedIn and do a search using "princeton", "skillman" or "hamilton" for locations. Youll get some good results. I know bloomberg, Dunn & bradstreet, and state Street are actively hiring in the area. If you can find a job there then you can live in monmouth.
What I want to know is...where do people in Toms River work? Seems far from everything, yet is one of the biggest towns in the state.
When I was in midtown I worked with someone that lived in TR. Two hour plus bus ride each way daily, but he bought a house on an inlet so he could ride his boat out to fish each weekend. To each his own I suppose...
so basically the people living there can expect to be Lakewood 2.0? Yikes!!
They are fighting. There was an article about this in Sunday's Press.
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