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I live in Garfield. Garfield schools are really bad. It's an abbot district. It's not really "unsafe", but crime is spreading from Passaic and I've heard Paterson too. The towns like Hasbrouck Heights, Rutherford, etc are nicer, and the schools are a lot better. Lodi isn't as bad as Garfield either, people say it's getting bad there but I feel like it'll be a while before Lodi gets close to "dangerous".