I had the same choice between purchasing a home on closter dock road in alpine for 1.1 million which i was planning on knocking down and building a home, however i changed my mind and instead bought land on hackensack plank road in weehawken just diagnol to kings bluff. I am in the process of getting approvals to build a modern 6000 square foot home over looking NYC.
I did not like alpine I looked at homes there several times and for christ sake I had to drive to closter to find a starbucks and the only restaurant i could find was a habacchi house. Alpine is pretty but its so square and boring forget about having any interactions with neighbors you will not meet them and they are not the most warm people to deal with.
I opted for weehawken as I wanted a nice view , my own property and ps I will also have an inground pool.
If you can pay 2.7 mill i am assuming your in the same category as others looking in Alpine so opt for Weehawken and send the kids to private school.
You can email at
cdouglas@edcpharma.com if you want some more insight.
P.S my taxes will be 0.02 % of assessed value in weehawken which last time i spoke to assessor will be aroung 28k but oh well i did not spend 8 million to get that in alpine
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