Best commuter rail exurb? (live, places, America, people)
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What is the best place in America to live in the outskirts and commute via rail to the city? Smaller places/ hidden gems where there's a car culture, but one can easily hop on a train and be downtown within the hour? I currently reside on the Philadelphia Main Line, but am curious as to other communities' commute, COL, etc. Places like Long Island, Eastern Mass, and DC immediately spring to mind, but I have no firsthand experience. Any thoughts?
Pink
James Michener
Pearl Buck (Just outside)
Mike Pettine (Browns NFL coach)
Oscar Hammerstein (yes the sound of music, south pacific etc were all written there)
Last edited by kidphilly; 09-18-2014 at 04:07 PM..
There are a dozen or more "cute" commuter rail towns throughout NJ. Places like
Montclair, Morristown, Red Bank, Ridgewood, Madison, Chatham, Summit, Westwood, Metuchen, Princeton to name a few. They've got commuter rail stations and nice downtown areas, much like some of the other towns suggested so far in this thread.
But is that "exurby" enough for what you're looking for? If you want really exurby (less of a "downtown" town feeling), maybe a place like Peapack-Gladstone, NJ would be what you have in mind. No downtown, just affluent exurbs with access to a train.
Pink
James Michener
Pearl Buck (Just outside)
Mike Pettine (Browns NFL coach)
Oscar Hammerstein (yes the sound of music, south pacific etc were all written there)
Northern Bucks is the best. For a visitor who doesn't know much about the area, taking Septa up to Doylestown is a wonderful idea. Other notable people from the area include the Berenstain's, authors of the Berenstain Bears, and the bears are pictured in the woods around Doylestown (really New Hope, but if you visit Doylestown, you are going to want to visit the New Hope along the river). The movie Signs was filmed there. Charles Darrow, the man who actually invented Monopoly also lived in the area. There are probably more notable people but yes... Pink is the most famous person. Also Justin Guarini, who famously lost to Kelly Clarkson in American Idol 1 ..
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All of the places mentioned so far seem legit. Peapack-Gladstone fits the bill, but I don't have any hangups over small downtown type of places either. As long as one can hop on a train easily, there's no other criteria--so Cleveland's suburbs work.
This thread was more out of curiosity mainly. Commuter towns/exurbs tend to be forgotten in discussions here in my opinion, and offer a lot of benefits for living--a really good trade-off in urbanity and peace and quiet.
Any other towns you can mention are greatly appreciated--all mentioned so far I've looked up to see how they function/fare. Or if you just have a personal favorite, that's cool too, per the thread title.
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