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I live in North Jersey and work in Midtown. The town I live in has detached houses on tree-lined streets, just like Long Island.
I take the bus to work. The ride from New Jersey to Midtown takes 15 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes or less coming home. The NJ Transit buses run a lot more frequently than the LIRR - the schedule doesn't control my day. My monthly bus pass ($78) costs less than a monthly subway pass ($89).
That's why I prefer North Jersey.
wow thanks, you must live right over the bridge in North Jersey.
They have a lot of similarities - LI has better train access to NYC (I'll gladly take hours and frequency of LIRR over NJT) but NJ has more local culture: Montclair, Jersey City, Hoboken, etc. LI has better beaches but its got worse property taxes and a lot more blue collar areas than NJ (I'm from NJ so I'm biased but its kind of true.) Aside the north shore areas of LI, NNJ has way nicer homes in general.
Voted for NJ. Not that I'd want to live in either place on the account of property taxes and high COL.
But those cities are absolute crap, why would that be a plus for Jersey?
I think most New Yorkers find driving in Jersey to be a pain in the ass. At least in LI you can make a right on red.
I live in LI, and getting into Queens, Brooklyn and Bronx is extremely easy as 2/3 of those are on LI. There is the LIRR which goes straight to Penn Station. Driving to Manhattan can be a pain in the ass, but there are severe traffic jams when you go from Jersey to NYC, so even though it is closer to Manhattan it isn't all that convenient to drive into Manhattan either.
Albeit my opinion on this is greatly skewered as I live on the edge of Nassau County. I can see Manhattan from where I live and all of that. I can't really relate to people who live in Suffolk county and what not.
Dead wrong. Jersey City is being transformed all the time. Newark isn't, but there are a lot of areas of Queens and BKLYN that arent either
In crime definently go for long island newark basically murder capital so is everything around it East Orange,Irvington,Maplewood,Kearny,Harrison,and especcialy elizabeth
In crime definently go for long island newark basically murder capital so is everything around it East Orange,Irvington,Maplewood,Kearny,Harrison,and especcialy elizabeth
Yeah so one region of an entire third of a state (see what I did there with the "third"?) makes the entire state bad? Not even all those places you listed are that bad.
I'm guessing Long Island is just Nassau and Suffolk County. What are we considering North Jersey? Does it include Princeton and Asbury Park? Those places are pretty great.
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