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Hi, I am moving for work to New Jersey in 3 weeks and need to find a place to rent ASAP. I'm a female in my late 20's, job is in Paramus. Does anyone know of safe places to rent nearby, preferably a 1 bedroom apt. for around $1000 or less?
I will have a car but would like my commute to be less than 15-20 minutes.
I'm flying out next week to take a look around since I've never actually been to New Jersey.
That's a big change! I'd think you'd want someplace either very near Manhattan for a total change of pace, like Hoboken/JC/Weehawken or someplace further out and very green and suburby. The more urban areas close to NYC are going to seem pretty ugly if you're used to SoCal, but being able to fly into the city when you feel like it may make up for it.
If you want to limit your commute to 15-20 minutes you will probably be limited to Paramus, Oradel, New Milford, Emerson, Ridgewood, Maywood and Maybe Hackensack or Westwood. All nice safe towns (except maybe parts of Hackensack). I am not sure about rents for 1 BR in those communities.
I would love to get the city experience. My plan was to move to downtown San Diego so I would love to live somewhere that I can walk to food, cafes, etc.
1. How bad is the traffic from Hoboken going North to Paramus
2. Is Hackensack a safe neighborhood? There seems to be quite a few places for rent there.
3. Any thoughts on Edgewater?
Thanks for the input, I fly in tomorrow morning and have 3 days to find a place.
I would love to get the city experience. My plan was to move to downtown San Diego so I would love to live somewhere that I can walk to food, cafes, etc.
1. How bad is the traffic from Hoboken going North to Paramus
2. Is Hackensack a safe neighborhood? There seems to be quite a few places for rent there.
3. Any thoughts on Edgewater?
Thanks for the input, I fly in tomorrow morning and have 3 days to find a place.
Traffic from Hoboken to Paramus in the morning can be a challenge. Plus you wouldn't find a one bedroom for less than 1k. More than 15-20 minute commute. Same for Edgewater, although you may find something for 1K.
Hackensack is safe for the most part, there are areas that you will want to avoid.
My bad, Hoboken is both too expensive and too far from your job. Sorry, the SoCal mention distracted me (I was there recently). Weehawken is more affordable but lacks the pleasant coffee shops in walking distance - but it's 15 mins. from NYC by bus and also a 5-10 min. drive from Hoboken.
Rutherford might work for you. It has one of the shortest commutes to NYC (both bus and train) and acc. to Googlemap is around 17 mins. from Paramus. It has a small downtown for the coffee-drinking and there are apartments in your range.
I'm not sure how much of Edgewater there is besides shopping malls and condos (on the waterfront with a view of NYC) but maybe that's because I only shop there. It has all the big box shops and there are restaurants in those malls too. There's also a very small downtown area with more individual restaurants.
One thing you can count on, the NJ bus system is excellent and any town you move to is likely to have decent bus service to Manhattan, maybe trains as well. See New Jersey Transit - Home. Whether the bus is handy to any given apartment is something a local realtor could tell you.
It depends what kind of lifestyle you want to lead...and this is something you should ponder ahead of time, to narrow down your search. In Southern California, you need a car whether you live in the city or not. Southern California is much like a large suburb.
In NJ and the entire NYC metro area, NYC is such a massive metropolis that even directly outside the main urban center (Manhattan) you have *VERY* dense, urban areas that are much denser than ANYTHING in Southern California.
For example, in NJ, you have to go about 10 miles west/northwest/southwest of NYC to get to the true suburbs, those leafy, peaceful (boring) places that frankly, much of Southern California consists of.
Do you want to be car reliant? Or do you want to live a city life, and have 24-hour access to NYC in mere minutes?
If the answer is city life, you'd have to shell out more than $1,000 per month in rent. In Hoboken for example, you'd have to spend at least $1,300 for a very modest 1-bedroom.
For a short time, I commuted to Paramus from Jersey City, which is right next to Hoboken. It took me about 35 minutes, if I recall, with some traffic. It wasn't bad.
My recommendation is to check out Hoboken.
If you desire a more suburban lifestyle, then check out Montclair or Ridgewood, 2 great suburban towns that are still close to NYC for an occasional night out.
But if you are in your late 20's, and relocating, you'll probably want to meet people around your age, and Hoboken gives you the best platform to do so.
If you need any specific advice, feel free to PM me!
Tommyc_37 said what I was trying to say in the first place but much better. Good post.
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