Need advice on Relocating to Monmouth County from Texas (Long Branch: for sale, home sales)

[Texan Relocating]

Advice needed! I am a native Texan relocating due to husband's job going to West Long Branch. What areas would you recommend that are in a 20-45 min drive time that have:

-Good Schools or good private schools
-Horse related activities/parks to ride in/equestrian centers
-Rural-Suburban Feel (but still have shopping close by)
-New or fairly new neighborhoods with 2-10 acres and lots of kids

Of course I am in sticker shock, but love the looks of all the beautiful parks and ability to horseback ride in them. Names of specific neighborhoods or even builders would be helpful!
Thanks for your help!

[MPBsr]

Originally Posted by Texan Relocating

Advice needed! I am a native Texan relocating due to husband's job going to West Long Branch. What areas would you recommend that are in a 20-45 min drive time that have:

-Good Schools or good private schools
-Horse related activities/parks to ride in/equestrian centers
-Rural-Suburban Feel (but still have shopping close by)
-New or fairly new neighborhoods with 2-10 acres and lots of kids

Of course I am in sticker shock, but love the looks of all the beautiful parks and ability to horseback ride in them. Names of specific neighborhoods or even builders would be helpful!
Thanks for your help!

Wait!!! I'm sorry, but you want a house on 2-10 acres in NJ???...LOL

You ain't seen nothing yet with sticker shock.

[BahamaBlu]

Try Cream Ridge and parts of Freehold.

[NewHomeHappy]

Hi there-

Cream Ridge. Upper Freehold School District is great. Excellent Schools. Plus around here, lots of horse farms. Large NJ Horse Farm/Hospital/breeder/trainer Center near us.

Many homes w/stable & acres for sale in my neighborhood.

Feel free to send me a PM if you need any information on the area or if you need a wonderful Realtor. From my personal experience, we have worked with one certain gentleman for THREE home sales & purchases. I am not a realtor & he is now a friend of the family (after three sales he should be !!lol)

Wishing you the best of luck.

[F Rim]

Lots of nice places to live near West Long Branch, I work there.

The towns right here are more geared toward the Ocean & shore life, most are nice. Some nicer than others. The small, nice towns adjacent to West Long Branch are Oakhurst, Ocean Township, Allenhurst, West Allenhurst, Deal, Loch Arbour. Nice, large houses, shore sized yards etc.

You start to get a rural type setting 20 minutes away, in Farmingdale, Howell & most everywhere between Farmingdale (Route 33 & Route 34) all the way to Freehold.

The two horse centers in the area are Marlboro & Colts Necks, but there are a lot of horse farms in the area. There is one on West Park Ave & Larkwood Ave in West Long Branch that dates back to 1750 or so.

I have a lot of local pictures (on a map) on my web site (see my profile for address), if you want a look around.

I live in the area & work in WLB, if you need information, just let me know.

Regards,

[Texan Relocating]

Thanks so much for the scoop on the areas around West Long Branch. Those are some I had not looked at on the net...have been using Google Earth and Realtor.com. AM really looking forward to getting up there to check things out, but am trying to do lots of pre-research.

Appreciate your help!
Texan Relocating

[jerseyshoreguy]

Texan,
As a UT Dallas alum, I say welcome. West Long Branch is pretty close to alot of things, the beach, shopping, NYC and some good horse farms. What is your budget? There are some existing farms around the area that are close to all of the things that your looking for.

Good luck and it will take some gettin used to... like it did me to y'all ... :-)

[Summer16]

Hi! I live in Monmouth County, it's a fantastic area. We have beautiful equastrian areas, Colts Neck is the first thing that comes to mind. Marlboro has horse camps for children, too. As far as acreage, I'm not sure how large the land sizes will be, but the Marlboro/Colts Neck area has many new housing developments.

The school districts are great for both of these towns. They used to be more rural, but now they are suburban.

[christina0001]

Colts Neck also was the first town to come to my mind, for larger pieces of property + horses.

[SALPS]

I'm in Atlantic Highlands area close to Sandy Hook but what you want can be found in Farmingdale - farms galore and more affordable, you would love Colts Neck, Upper Freehold, Navesink, even Holmdel where alot of my friends live, also some sections of Middletown have horses as well. They do not advertise, so you will have to look for farms among the residential areas, there are plenty. Depends if you need to have stables or if you will board your horses. I've used a few centers for lessons, but we live walking distance to the beach now and they are too far, so we haven't kept up the lessons. You may re-prioritize after you are here awhile... GOOD LUCK!