What NJ town do you feel is "Overpriced" (Newark: apartment, low crime)

[stevemorse]

west milford to me is overpriced. I know what your thinking, west milford??? However look at what your getting, yes you can get a cheap house for 300K, however taxes for that area and house would be 12K. What do you have there, no building codes basically, far , far driving, chained to a crappy town with tons of crappy mixed housing and weird lots with no views and bad immenities. I really dislike west milford, and the more you go by Greenwood lake, Hewitt the worse it gets. Cops up your butt, and loud low quality life. Look at some of the towns your naming, Take Mountain Lakes, your getting alot for your taxes, and its a nice town. they would not let Billy ride his tractor to the beer store??? However in West Milford go to the Mountain Rest and anything goes. They park the pick up, harley or lawn tractor in the lot, get loaded look for chicks or sheep and leave loud blow out there thunder headers. Its not worth the money. At least you get in those towns high tax but great quality. In West Milford you get high tax and crap.

[openheads]

Originally Posted by oleinnout

Teaneck is a tale of two cities. There are parts of Teaneck, which most people could never afford. We're talking homes starting at about 500K. There is also a part of Teaneck (aka the hood) which nobody would want to walk around after dark.

All I can do is shake my head at this statement. You have to be kidding, right?
By "The Hood" I assume you mean the middle class African American section of town where people of color mow their lawns on Saturday, send their kids to school, pay taxes, & overwhelmingly act like stand up citizens. That part of town?
Only the most sheltered of white people would be afraid to walk around that part of town. My god............. Some of you seem like the ones we as a society should be scared of. Not the "black part" of Teaneck.

[EEEPNJ]

Originally Posted by Raven1976

I'd say Hoboken takes the cake on the most overpriced town

Hoboken is its own animal... It is really just an extension of NYC now.

[EEEPNJ]

Originally Posted by Ms.Charlotte

I'm curious as to why you consider Tinton Falls "dumpy"?

Don't forget the top notch schools in Holmdel!

Excellent schools...but big drug problems. I know it's everywhere, but I have a friend who teaches in that district and it's exceptional there.... (I do love Holmdel too, just saying....)

[EEEPNJ]

Originally Posted by pbergen

way to rag on the OP's new hometown. do you even know that area beyond generalizations or superficial, passing observations?

you're always telling us how great your hometown of moorestown is. and it is a nice area. but in the future, could you do us all a favor and stick to what you know best (moorestown/south jersey)? because you clearly don't know north jersey very well, based on this and some of your earlier posts. you may think you do, but what you've said tells me otherwise.

seriously, let those who actually know north jersey's towns, inside-and-out, to comment on their pros and cons.

and for the record, teaneck is not a dump. it's actually a very decent town with leafy streets, a fair amount of attractive architecture, and a bustling downtown area. the population is racially mixed and includes lower middle, middle, and upper middle income residents. the most expensive homes, located near route 4 in the northwestern section of town, easily cost over $1 million. there are also modest cape cods, generic post WWII-split levels, quaint tudors and colonials, old victorian homes, and so forth. some of these areas are very nice, some not so much, but none of it is even close to being a dump - not even the so-called "hood", which is nothing more than a lower middle class african-american neighborhood.

overall, teaneck's median household income in 2000 was more or less in line with cherry hill, albeit with a wider range of incomes than the latter.

and teaneck's neighbors are all very decent as well. the supposedly "worst" town bordering teaneck is hackensack (which is also mixed income and mixed race), while the other immediate neighbors are mostly middle class or better. go a few miles east, northeast, north, or northwest, and you'll hit some of the more affluent and well-manicured areas of northeast jersey.

but hey, none of this can compare with moorestown, right? because that place is like the center of universe!

APPLAUSE. Pbergen, your posts are always point on and this one is too.

[EEEPNJ]

Originally Posted by dmccauley

Rumson, Monmouth County always has been overpriced and still is overpriced.

Monmouth used to be a bargain compared to Northern NJ but it's now on par.

[Newarkbomb]

Originally Posted by OIT2GOD

NEW JERSEY IS TOO HIGH!!!
I would say live in NJ, buy your home, save your money and then sell your home for about $400,000 or more, move toward the south (Outside of Raleigh, NC). Buy you a home for about $185,000-$210,000 put some of your money in the bank and invest the rest, Get you a great job in the Raleigh-Durham Metro area. Now you can live great. That's something to think about. I live in a small city (50,000) and the homes are $130,00 to $200,000. We're 25 minutes from Raleigh.

Good way of putting it.. but you really don't have to go that far away from NJ. You can go about 150 miles north to the Albany area and get that similar price range as in the Raleigh area.
Depends of what kind of weather you like.

[EEEPNJ]

Originally Posted by openheads

All I can do is shake my head at this statement. You have to be kidding, right?
By "The Hood" I assume you mean the middle class African American section of town where people of color mow their lawns on Saturday, send their kids to school, pay taxes, & overwhelmingly act like stand up citizens. That part of town?
Only the most sheltered of white people would be afraid to walk around that part of town. My god............. Some of you seem like the ones we as a society should be scared of. Not the "black part" of Teaneck.

SO right....

[dmccauley]

Originally Posted by EEEPNJ

Monmouth used to be a bargain compared to Northern NJ but it's now on par.

I don't know for sure but I think the actual general tax rates are lower in Monmouth. Rumson happens to be fairly low but what you get for $500k is total crap.

[EEEPNJ]

Originally Posted by dmccauley

I don't know for sure but I think the actual general tax rates are lower in Monmouth. Rumson happens to be fairly low but what you get for $500k is total crap.

I'm strictly talking house prices, in this instance. I'm not familiar w/ taxes in Monmouth.