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In terms of NJ suburbs, the following are the big Asian areas.
Palisades Park/Fort Lee (mostly Korean)
Parsippany-Troy Hills (I believe mixed Chinese/Indian)
Edison (Indian, Chinese, and some Koreans)
West Windsor and surrounding areas (more South Asian I believe)
There are also some Asian neighborhoods in Nassau County (portions of North Hempstead) but these are more first-ring suburbs which are spillover from the huge Asian community in Queens, so I think they skew a bit less upscale. I believe most of these areas are South Asian, though there is a big Chinese population as well.
Westchester does not have an Asian enclave, but there's a pretty high concentration in the Greenville/Edgemont area, with spillover in nearby upscale places like Scarsdale.
The Great Neck areas goes from solidly middle class and up. Same for the nearby Herricks area/school district, which has a pretty high Chinese(as well as Indian and Korean) population(70% of the school district's students are Asian).
Ardsley is another Westchester community with a substantial Asian population.
The reality is that you're not really going to find a lot of clean & modern in the NYC suburbs, so the real answer is probably "nowhere". You have pockets with a higher concentration of Asians, many of which are upscale and with good schools, but are probably leafy but older housing stock. You have a few newer, more classically suburban areas (thinking places out in Hunterdon County), but they are going to be pretty far out there. And you have a few more modern places (downtown Jersey City comes to mind) but those are not really suburbs.
The equivalent of Irvine from a prestige and demographics perspective are probably a place like Scarsdale (Westchester), maybe Roslyn (North Shore of LI), maybe Tenafly (Bergen County NJ). But those places are far more similar to each other than they would be to, say, Irvine or Bellevue.
Most of the wealthier or more prestigious areas are full of well kept, older houses (pre-war, in many places), within a short distance of a tidy town center with a train station.
You have a few newer, more classically suburban areas (thinking places out in Hunterdon County), but they are going to be pretty far out there. And you have a few more modern places (downtown Jersey City comes to mind) but those are not really suburbs.
He wouldn't want to look at Hunterdon, but Middlesex. Lots of very new sprawlburbs further south towards Princeton, and the county as a whole is over a quarter Asian now.
Definitely southeast Bergen County, much of it east of the Hackensack River and sort off on a gradient that gets more Asian in terms of proportion of the population the further east, and to some extent south, you go. This leans heavily East Asian with Korean being perhaps the most prominent.
Another possibility, this one leaning Chinese / South Asian / Korean, is the northern and central Nassau County. This is essentially an extension of the Northeast Queens communities which is within the borders of New York City but often quite suburban in layout and perhaps should be under consideration as well though it can be quite pricey.
The thing is, these are often older settlements in the NYC area, so they aren't going to be as modern relative to Irvine or Bellevue which for the most part all developed in the late 20th century or within the 21st century.
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The reality is that you're not really going to find a lot of clean & modern in the NYC suburbs, so the real answer is probably "nowhere". You have pockets with a higher concentration of Asians, many of which are upscale and with good schools, but are probably leafy but older housing stock. You have a few newer, more classically suburban areas (thinking places out in Hunterdon County), but they are going to be pretty far out there. And you have a few more modern places (downtown Jersey City comes to mind) but those are not really suburbs.
The equivalent of Irvine from a prestige and demographics perspective are probably a place like Scarsdale (Westchester), maybe Roslyn (North Shore of LI), maybe Tenafly (Bergen County NJ). But those places are far more similar to each other than they would be to, say, Irvine or Bellevue.
Most of the wealthier or more prestigious areas are full of well kept, older houses (pre-war, in many places), within a short distance of a tidy town center with a train station.
Agreed. The Irvine/DTC look is much easier to replicate in less dense areas, basically not the northeast, though I'd imagine Boston may have an area like it.
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Originally Posted by ckhthankgod
The Great Neck areas goes from solidly middle class and up. Same for the nearby Herricks area/school district, which has a pretty high Chinese(as well as Indian and Korean) population(70% of the school district's students are Asian).
Ardsley is another Westchester community with a substantial Asian population.
Yep, feels like my daughter's school is 70% Asian. That's neither good or bad though you can construe/misconstrue it as both.
We just don't want to be the token family in town.
Agreed. The Irvine/DTC look is much easier to replicate in less dense areas, basically not the northeast, though I'd imagine Boston may have an area like it.
Yep, feels like my daughter's school is 70% Asian. That's neither good or bad though you can construe/misconstrue it as both.
We just don't want to be the token family in town.
Edison NJ's highschool are about 80% Asian. Not too much diversity down there. So if that's what you are looking for, that might be a good option too... right off the NEC ~35-40 mins into Manhattan.
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