Best place to live if working in Kearney?? (Florham Park: lease, house)

[frump]

Thank you, I'll try and google them.

[johnfrisco]

There are Town Houses (more commonly referred to as Condos in NJ) all over the place. What type of environment do you want to live in?

Newark, East Newark and Belleville are tough cities with lots of slum neighborhoods. What exactly are you looking for?

[frump]

Thanks so much for your help. We will be moving from a 3000 sq ft home on 5 acres(you get a lot for your money where we are). We are hoping for at least a 1500 sq ft home, if not larger. We'd like to rent a single family home or townhouse(condo) with an attached garage. We have 2 little boys....so someplace that was child friendly would be needed. A safe area is my biggest "want". I'd love a new build or at least updated. And we would love to pay closer to $2000....with $2500 being our highest.

Am I being unrealistic?

NJ is overwhelming to me......so many different towns and areas.

[Nexis4Jersey]

There not slum towns , i'm tired of people form Neighboring towns calling them slums , there Towns in Transition form abandoned Industrial town to a Thriving mixed well planned Development towns. The only slums in NJ are Irvington , some parts of the Oranges and Camden.

[shorebaby]

I think Rutherford has some pretty nice town homes.

[shorebaby]

Originally Posted by frump

Thanks so much for your help. We will be moving from a 3000 sq ft home on 5 acres(you get a lot for your money where we are). We are hoping for at least a 1500 sq ft home, if not larger. We'd like to rent a single family home or townhouse(condo) with an attached garage. We have 2 little boys....so someplace that was child friendly would be needed. A safe area is my biggest "want". I'd love a new build or at least updated. And we would love to pay closer to $2000....with $2500 being our highest.

Am I being unrealistic?

NJ is overwhelming to me......so many different towns and areas.

I think that is realistic. Check out towns like, Rutherford, East Rutherford, Lyndhurst, Wood-Ridge or Carlstadt.

[frump]

Do you think that we could find something to rent for between $1800-2000?

[shorebaby]

Originally Posted by frump

Do you think that we could find something to rent for between $1800-2000?

That may be difficult. You could probably find something in a 2 family house.

[bababua]

Originally Posted by johnfrisco

There are Town Houses (more commonly referred to as Condos in NJ) all over the place. What type of environment do you want to live in?

Newark, East Newark and Belleville are tough cities with lots of slum neighborhoods. What exactly are you looking for?

Slums what are you talking about? What "slums" are you talking about?

[mdpesq]

Slum: "A thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people" from dictionary.com

You can try and "sugar coat" it by calling them "Towns in Transition" or "cultural havens" but in the end, in my opinion and from a strict definitional point of view, they are slums.