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I am moving to New York next year with my wife and two children. Both children will be in elementary school by the time we move. We are trying to find the best combination of easy commute and family friendly that we can because there is no way we want to live in the city at this point. I know this is a common topic in these forums, but I have yet to find one catered to our specific situation:
Annual salary: 160,000
Job location: Times Square (my wife does not work so do not need to factor her in to commuting)
Home preference: something with 3-4 bedrooms and a yard of some kind; needs to be near great schools
Preferred rent: 2500-3000 (we do not have any idea what is "normal" in the area, but we are paying down substantial student loan debt from law school)
Commute time: hopefully under an hour, as job will include incredibly long hours quite frequently.
NYC has 5 boroughs. What do you mean by NYC suburbs? Are you referring to one of the 5 boroughs? Are you referring to outside of the city such as Long Island or Westchester? Did you do any other research and have a general idea of where you'd want to live. Some people live in CT and commute to Manhattan. Give us more to go on.
NYC has 5 boroughs. What do you mean by NYC suburbs? Are you referring to one of the 5 boroughs? Are you referring to outside of the city such as Long Island or Westchester? Did you do any other research and have a general idea of where you'd want to live. Some people live in CT and commute to Manhattan. Give us more to go on.
Sorry if I wasn't clear enough, I think I was pretty specific as to what we are looking for. Don't want to recite them again, but I guess the "less than one hour" requirement would rule out Connecticut. (Again, as someone who has never lived in NY I can't even say that with authority.) As NYC has 5 boroughs I meant something outside of NYC that is a little more suburban, so I guess I mean outside of the 5 boroughs of NYC.
We have looked at Long Island, Westchester and New Jersey. Clearly we could find something in any of those locations. Given the number of choices though it is really hard to know where to begin to look. We are worried about finding a good house with a good commute but accidentally ending up in a lousy school. We of course are doing research but I was hoping that this thread could give me more ideas rather than just more details about places we have already looked at. (We have plenty of time to look at details after we have a solid list of 10-20 places we could consider.) I know that sounds like a lot of places to consider, but we have no idea what the area is like. Thanks for the help!
You absolutely cannot rule out CT, there are quite a few towns within a short commute (under 45 minute) to Midtown Manhattan.
Most of the suburbs of NJ, LI, CT, and Westchester have good schools.
If only your husband works, I would vote for LI as the best of the places to live.
Look into Rockville Centre, Lynbrook, Garden City, Manhasset, Great Neck, Port Washington.
By those places I mean not just the postal code names, but anywhere that falls into those school districts.
Nothing matters in NY in your address except the school district it is tied to. Zip code nor city name can determine that, you always must ask what schools.
You absolutely cannot rule out CT, there are quite a few towns within a short commute (under 45 minute) to Midtown Manhattan.
Most of the suburbs of NJ, LI, CT, and Westchester have good schools.
If only your husband works, I would vote for LI as the best of the places to live.
Look into Rockville Centre, Lynbrook, Garden City, Manhasset, Great Neck, Port Washington.
By those places I mean not just the postal code names, but anywhere that falls into those school districts.
Nothing matters in NY in your address except the school district it is tied to. Zip code nor city name can determine that, you always must ask what schools.
Thanks! I did not realize how close CT was. A couple of those places I have never heard of, so I'll add them to my list.
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