Where do people move when they are DONE with manhattan?

[talk tomey]

Middlesex Boro, Dunellen & Bound Brook are towns in New Jersey that are located in the top places to live region of Middlesex County. Affordable homes and lower taxes. Easy commute by road, trainline and direct bus into NYC.

[ddhboy]

Used to be Brooklyn, not so much now that Brooklyn's been gentrified and yuppified. Long Island, like Nassau county used to be another destination, but the people that got kicked out from Brooklyn moved their so now your talking about mid long island, half way between Brooklyn and the Hamptons. More likely though they move to New Jersey or they leave the area all together and just go to either Florida, Texas, California, or Virginia. The richer people, like those who work in hedge funds move to Conneticuit, and they take the hedge funds with them.

[Jdawg8181]

Long Island

Rockville Centre <3 (my fave!!)

[jcoltrane]

Back in the day, the first "gentrfiers" from Manhattan would, generally, move to Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Fort Green, or Clinton Hill. That was pretty much the order of preference. Before the first "gentrifiers" there came the pre-gentry hippy, "urban pioneers".

Well, the success of the urban pioneers attracted the first gentrifiers, which repelled the urban pioneers, who ran off to pioneer places like Maplewood and South Orange, NJ and Nyack, NY. Usually, after having matured and started families, when schooling became paramount, the first gentrifiers followed the urban pioneers expanding the footprint of the pioneered places.

You'll also find some of the urban pioneer/hippies disbursed around Woodstock and/or Phonecia, NY; or, in a number of the Hudson river towns.

The pattern follows today, though it takes a LOT more money.

Some of the above ilk, will also leave the area altogether.

JFYI, the place that I feel is most ripe to follow the pattern is East Orange, NJ. All the past elements exist there, Cheap, run down, quality housing, etc. Unfortunately, the urban pioneers are past their pioneering days, the first gentrifiers too comfortable where they are, and this new generation is simply too fay.

[Elvira Black]

Well, in a way one of the first inner-city gentrifications was in the Bronx/Grand Concourse area. A lot of people (esp Jewish) moved there when it was considered the "Park Avenue" of the borough. After the subway lines made access there easy, it morphed from a semi-rural area to one that was considered, well, Grand--complete with doormen (hard to imagine now). A big step up from the Lower East Side, and I believe with some amenities harder to find at that time (we're talking early 20th century construction). In fact, I was taking the express bus back last evening and as it went up the Concourse I thought how similar it looked to Park Avenue; almost entirely residential save for some storefronts.

There are a considerable amount of one and two family houses in the Bronx for families, and as other(s) mentioned Riverdale is a prime locale as well; not quite Westchester but still within the 5 boros with all the requisite transit options. In years to come, it's possible that those looking for a "classic six" might even find such gems in the Bronx, similar to the prewar Upper West Side uppercrust buildings in Manhatttan.

[Elvira Black]

In Jersey I believe a few of the very gentrified areas are places a hairsbreadth from the city like Hoboken and Jersey City. Jersey in general is home to a lot of wealthy folks, of course.

[Blackbeauty212]

I know some move as far away as PA, and commute to the city everyday...2 people that I know in my company live in Bucks Co PA suburb of Philly...They drive into Trenton (10-15min drive) and take the NJ Transit to the city....PA is the cheapest state to buy in the NY Metro....

[Fred314X]

Originally Posted by ddhboy

Used to be Brooklyn, not so much now that Brooklyn's been gentrified and yuppified.

That's quite a generalization! Yes, there are neighborhoods in Brooklyn that have been gentrified. And those areas, like Williamsburg, Red Hook and, for that matter, even Bushwick and Bed-Stuy, continue to see an influx. But by no means has the entire borough gone over to the hipsters, and plenty of people still come to Brooklyn when the Manhattan Myth begins to wear thin.

[bxgrl74]

Not necessary and off topic

So back off to suburbia where they started from.