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It’s the Trenton metro area, not just Trenton the city. The metro includes all of Mercer County. Still though, you would think with taxes being what they are that this would not be on that list, especially for retiring.
Then again, taxes are just one component overall when it comes to quality of life. It’s not everything.
It’s the Trenton metro area, not just Trenton the city. The metro includes all of Mercer County. Still though, you would think with taxes being what they are that this would not be on that list, especially for retiring.
Then again, taxes are just one component overall when it comes to quality of life. It’s not everything.
Yeah, and every town that touches Trenton suffers from a spillover effect, at least in the parts closest to the city border. Hamilton, Ewing and Lawrenceville all have some real nasty sections near the city border and they improve once you get away from there. Even Morrisville, PA is pretty much an extension of Trenton at this point with all the free bridges that connect the two and they're pedestrian friendly so it's so easy for the garbage to spread.
How anyone can afford to retire in NJ is beyond me. My father just did. Their mortgage is paid off, but I don't see how they can stay where they are with property taxes upwards of $10K a year.
Calling this the best place to live in Trenton would be laughable if it weren't so wrong. Hamilton and Ewing border Trenton, Lawrenceville isn't even close, but Lawrence Township is.
Mercer county includes Princeton and West Windsor among others and the park they lead the article with is nowhere near Trenton, but it is beautiful.
Sounds like an unabashed marketing ploy.
ETA: I'm surprised they didn't just designate Princeton, since that's where they're really describing. Maybe because housing is so ludicrously expensive.
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Calling this the best place to live in Trenton would be laughable if it weren't so wrong. Hamilton and Ewing border Trenton, Lawrenceville isn't even close, but Lawrence Township is.
Mercer county includes Princeton and West Windsor among others and the park they lead the article with is nowhere near Trenton, but it is beautiful.
Sounds like an unabashed marketing ploy.
ETA: I'm surprised they didn't just designate Princeton, since that's where they're really describing. Maybe because housing is so ludicrously expensive.
Pretty much ALL of Lawrence Twp is referred to as Lawrenceville and it DOES share a border with Trenton, on Rt. 1.
Pretty much ALL of Lawrence Twp is referred to as Lawrenceville and it DOES share a border with Trenton, on Rt. 1.
Actually that's not true. Lawrenceville is 20 minutes north on Rt 206. Do you live here? Because I do. Right on Rt 1 that DOES border Lawrence and Trenton.
Y’all do realize it’s not like Trenton is the only example of that here, right? Baltimore is two spots above it, Youngstown, OH is one spot above it, and St. Louis is fourteen spots above it, just to name a few. The core cities of each of those metros are worse than Trenton.
It’s not hard to understand they use the metro area here, hence why they use the terms Minneapolis-St. Paul and Dallas-Fort Worth. Most of Mercer County is nice. Even the towns that border Trenton overall are good towns despite having a small portion that is bad.
Y’all do realize it’s not like Trenton is the only example of that here, right? Baltimore is two spots above it, Youngstown, OH is one spot above it, and St. Louis is fourteen spots above it, just to name a few. The core cities of each of those metros are worse than Trenton.
It’s not hard to understand they use the metro area here, hence why they use the terms Minneapolis-St. Paul and Dallas-Fort Worth. Most of Mercer County is nice. Even the towns that border Trenton overall are good towns despite having a small portion that is bad.
Totally agree, but Trenton has a bad rep for a reason and it really doesn't represent a "metro" area at all, not like Philly, for instance, which I would consider to be a metro area and includes a mix of great and not so great (Camden) places to live.
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