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I don't know if someone was high on crack or sniffing too much glue, but I always thought altough Phillipsburgh had some nice homes, the area was crappy....so is this article true today?
Ya never know. Who woulda thunk that Jersey City, Hoboken, etc., would command the prices that they now do?? I dount P-burg will ever get to that level, since 1.5 hours to NYC is not the same as being just across the river, but there's definitely plenty of old housing stock there thats ripe for restoration.
I don't know if someone was high on crack or sniffing too much glue, but I always thought altough Phillipsburgh had some nice homes, the area was crappy....so is this article true today?
I've always thought that PBurg had the potential to someday be the next Hoboken...or Scranton on the NJ side. It has cleaned up a bit over the years but it still has a long way to go. You can get bargains and some of the homes would be great restored.
I just browsed their inventory and there's nothing there that would entice me to buy a home and I'm an old homes lover. I just thought that there are plenty of other towns deserving of the so called title "best places to buy an old home...."
I wouldn't live in P'Burg if you paid me. Everything is so rundown and it's across the river from crime ridden Easton, PA where gunshots are a regular nightly occurence.
I wouldn't live in P'Burg if you paid me. Everything is so rundown and it's across the river from crime ridden Easton, PA where gunshots are a regular nightly occurence.
Exactly, makes you wonder who the hell is gathering all the info on any "top 10" lists, i.e. schools, towns.
I knew a few Warren Couny Correctional officers...most of the scum in the Warren County jail came from Phillipsburg.....maybe in a decade or two...have to have those "pioneers" willing to pick up a restoration and live there till it turns around
As Bob said, "who would have thought..." While most of us are understandably concerned with keeping our own heads above water and putting our kids in good schools, etc... There are always folks out there willing (and able) to take a risk to find the next Hoboken, Jersey City, Red Bank, Manayunk, or Lambertville. I'm a believer that no urban area is ever really "doomed." In the end, the free market determines all things and if the price of housing along with other economic factors attract people to an area it turns around. Look at the way various neighborhoods in cities like Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, and Boston have transformed over the years. Granted its not for everyone-you have to have deep pockets and patience, which one day I hope to have Personally having just bought a home in High Bridge I'd love to see Phillipsburg revitalized. My fiancee and I love Lambertville and the appeal of the older towns on the Delaware in general.
I wouldn't live in P'Burg if you paid me. Everything is so rundown and it's across the river from crime ridden Easton, PA where gunshots are a regular nightly occurence.
Nightly gunshots? You certainly know how to exaggerate, don't ya? I lived in that area from 2003 - 2006 and I've never heard of gunshots at night for the time I lived there. Have you ever gone to this place at all? Unlike Newark, you won't see any house in P'burg or Easton with safety iron bars in front of their windows/doors, I tell you that!
P-burg is a dump. The article is ignorant to the fact that those homes are lipstick on a pig. What you have in P-burg is low income, crime, drugs, that's hardly an area that I'd want to invest in. There is no turnaround there. The article was written by an ignorant person who doesn't know the NJ market. Yeah you hear stories of once in awhile of some NYC banker who buys an old victorian in that area for nothing and fixes it up but that's not the norm and will never be that far away from the City. Buy at your own risk.
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where gunshots are a regular nightly occurence.
Personally having just bought a home in High Bridge I'd love to see Phillipsburg revitalized. My fiancee and I love Lambertville and the appeal of the older towns on the Delaware in general.
