Newark???? (Jersey City: real estate, live, most dangerous)
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Only the Upper Class can afford Newport....the Majority of the Middle Class in Urban Jersey lives in places like the Heights , Historic Downtown , Ironbound , Western part of Elizabeth , Western and Southern Part of Paterson , Hackensack.... Actually ive noticed Newark becoming nicer over the past 10 years.....all of Urban Jersey with the exception of Irvington ...even parts of Trenton and Camden have started to on the PATH to gentrification. Asbury Park is coming back and so is Long Branch.... The Waterfront is very white , and not that diverse at all and gives you a false sense of security....
I don't spend much time in Camden (other than for tweeter center or whatever it's been renamed to). That area makes Newark look safe. But Trenton is definately nicer than it used to be. I play at the West Trenton County Club and often go into downtown trenton with some guys from there.
I have a few rental properties in Newport... THey usually have multiple young adults sharing them. Their individual rent isn't too bad.
The "cities" in NJ have all had murders this year and previous years, so I dunno what are you getting at. And if by cities you mean suburbs, then the comparisons are insane, as you can't compare a minority-filled city with 280,000 to a white collar affluent town with barely 10,000.
And not for nothing, but with a city over 50% black, 25% poverty rate, and surrounded by the likes of East Orange, Irvington and Elizabeth, a murder-free calendar month isn't something to take likely and shrug off.
Complain to the state for funding it instead of blaming the city if it bothers you so much.
Crime rate in Newark went back up after they cut the police force.
We need a more credible source then that , and why are you even in the Jersey Forums?
We don't need a more credible source at all. Use his own medicine against him. That list has Newark up there LA, Miami and such. If the poster who provided the list really wants to make that his claim to fame I say let him.
The "cities" in NJ have all had murders this year and previous years, so I dunno what are you getting at. And if by cities you mean suburbs, then the comparisons are insane, as you can't compare a minority-filled city with 280,000 to a white collar affluent town with barely 10,000.
And not for nothing, but with a city over 50% black, 25% poverty rate, and surrounded by the likes of East Orange, Irvington and Elizabeth, a murder-free calendar month isn't something to take likely and shrug off.
Complain to the state for funding it instead of blaming the city if it bothers you so much.
Newark has a bad reputation because it was and is well deserved. 1996 Time magazine most dangerous city in the nation. The murder rate is at least double sometimes triple and more than a comparible city like Jersey City which has a population almost equal to Newarks. Jersey City also has a high poverty rate and a large black population also. So you think state funding will lower crime. The local folk along with the police have to lower crime. How did the increased state funding for Abbott do for the schools. Not too good. This is one city almost equal to Newark about 5 miles away. I would live in Jersey City and did for many years. I been to Newark numerous times.I wouldn't live there. Icould go on and on. Wait to the summer comes with 175 fewer cops, good luck.
Ive been all over the Northeast and Eastern Canadian....ive seen the good , the great , the bad and scary. Newark on a scale of 1 to 10 , is a 3 compared to Buffalo , Camden , North Philly , Baltimore , parts of Toronto , Parts of Montreal....
Parts of? Gotta compare city to city. Sure, North or (worse) Southwest Philadelphia is worse than Forest Hill in Newark, but as a whole Newark's still worse than Philadelphia. Montreal? Don't make me laugh...
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Alot of Eastern Euros i know , don't have any issue with any of Urban Jersey , because there used it back in there home countries....they also don't understand the hate towards the cities....
Yeah, and Irvington's safer than Johannesburg, South Africa... but I still wouldn't want to live there. Newark being safer than some random Eastern European city isn't much of a recommendation.
Yes Newark is lovely. You should totally move there and use the schools...they are awesome too.
Troll.
Exactly.
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