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I am looking for a spot I am not sure exists! Hope you may be able to help.
My husband and I have previously lived in Queens and Brooklyn, New York City. We are currently living in the Midwest but looking to return to New York State to be closer to family and friends. We have a one year old child. We would like to settle down in a nice community along the Hudson River and are looking at the cities which have good public transport to New York City. We don't need to go into Manhattan every day but maybe once a week or two weeks - and maybe in a few years more often.
Does anyone know of a nice, child-friendly village/city/town/suburb along the Hudson River with good schools, within 1-2 hours commute of Manhattan (public trans), with a nice atmosphere, where it is possible to buy a 3-4 bedroom house with a yard for about 200K or 225K?
We have looked on the internet at places like Beacon, Cold Spring, Peekskill, Poughkeepsie, Ossining but I would love to hear from somebody with personal experience of the Hudson Valley area.
If you can find a place that you like in Cold Spring that fits your budget, by all means, go for it. Really nice community, nice downtown, great schools. Think it may be hard to find a house that cheap though.
Beacon is another nice community along the Hudson, should be able to find stuff slightly cheaper as you cross over into Dutchess County. Also worth looking in to Fishkill.
Also, closer to the New Hamburg station is Wappingers. Nice community and within your price range.
Westchester County (Peekskill and points south) is simply way out of your price range. Putnam County may be too (only two MNRR Hudson Line stops are Garrison and Cold Spring and both = $$$)
Thinking Dutchess is your best bet, so start with the Beacon area.
You need to define affordable. A house? What do you plan on paying? Affordable can be in vast differences... NY city people sent to this end of the state (Western) can generally buy in the best burbs and think over half a million is cheap while most local people pay under $200 K and think it high. From the Midwest to lower NY is a big difference.
If you are willing to drive to a train station (beacon is 20ish minutes away) you could look into cornwall, and parts of new windsor. ( people will urge you to stay away from the newburgh school district. So this is why I say look at parts of new windsor.) However if you find that the school district won't bother you, you can also look into the town of newburgh
You can also look into Tarrytown
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