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Hey all,
How is living near the beach during the colder months? Do you feel isolated because the city and such are far away? Are there things to do in the winter to keep you busy, especially with kids? My husband has mentioned that he'd like to live in Monmouth County in a couple years, when our youngest will be 2. So we'll have a 6 yr old, 4 yr old and 2 yr old.
I live in Monmouth Co, in a beach town. I don't know what you are expecting to do with toddlers to keep busy, mine kept me busy on their own. There are lots of relocated ben...people from North Jersey and New York in the area, so you wouldn't be "isolated".
What sort of things do you do now with them that you think you won't be able to do if you moved here?
Thanks for responding! Well, we go into the city more during the winter and fall. It's a 35 minute drive. The mall and downtown is really close. There are a lot of toddler places, ie little gym and kiddville. DH's commute to NYC isn't bad right now. Parks are close.
Sorry, I just don't know a ton about Monmouth county.
Thanks for responding! Well, we go into the city more during the winter and fall. It's a 35 minute drive. The mall and downtown is really close. There are a lot of toddler places, ie little gym and kiddville. DH's commute to NYC isn't bad right now. Parks are close.
Sorry, I just don't know a ton about Monmouth county.
Best places in Monmouth County to live is one town in from the beach
Rumson
West long branch
Ocean twp
Spring Lake
Sea Girt
Ok the last two have beaches
My point is look in the communities 1 to 3 miles inland
Thanks for responding! Well, we go into the city more during the winter and fall. It's a 35 minute drive. The mall and downtown is really close. There are a lot of toddler places, ie little gym and kiddville. DH's commute to NYC isn't bad right now. Parks are close.
Sorry, I just don't know a ton about Monmouth county.
We have little gym and places like that. And from Red Bank its an hour train ride into the city.
The Monmouth County beach towns have pretty large year-round populations, since they're still rather close to NYC and a large amount of jobs/amenities. You wouldn't feel stranded out in the middle of nowhere at all. Monmouth County is a very large, bustling area that's very much part of the giant NYC metro area. There's easy rail transit to the city and to places like New Brunswick, Trenton, Philadelphia, ect. It's really not unlike the other NYC-area suburbs, only there happens to be a beach there.
Once you get down to places like Atlantic and Cape May counties, things get a little more desolate in the off-season. But even those areas aren't exactly the sticks.
I lived in Manasquan on First Ave, then Salmon Ave, when my kids were small. We loved it, but I worked full time, so did my husband. I always loved that town, but we were always out walking on the boardwalk after dinner (kids were always bundled up) I can't answer for now, except to say, watch for flooding. Some of those streets flood all the time.
Hey all,
How is living near the beach during the colder months? Do you feel isolated because the city and such are far away? Are there things to do in the winter to keep you busy, especially with kids? My husband has mentioned that he'd like to live in Monmouth County in a couple years, when our youngest will be 2. So we'll have a 6 yr old, 4 yr old and 2 yr old.
Thank you in advance.
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Originally Posted by lkb0714
I live in Monmouth Co, in a beach town. I don't know what you are expecting to do with toddlers to keep busy, mine kept me busy on their own. There are lots of relocated ben...people from North Jersey and New York in the area, so you wouldn't be "isolated".
What sort of things do you do now with them that you think you won't be able to do if you moved here?
What lkb0714 said. I live in Monmouth County about fifteen minutes from the beach. It's most certainly not isolated. There is so much to do here, especially if you have kids.
It's New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the country, remember? "Isolated" doesn't exist, lol.
Do a drive-by at one of the train stations in the early morning and see how many of us are waiting there. This is a big commuter area for New York City jobs. People take ferries from around here to Manhattan for work every day, too.
Also, Monmouth County has GREAT county parks with activities going on for little kids all the time. I wish I still had a little kid, because that splash playground in Dorbrook Park in Colts Neck looks really really good to me...but a 50-something woman playing by herself in the sprinklers might get carted away by the men in the white coats.
Do you all go into the city leisurely? I usually drive in for dinner sometimes. We get there in 30 minutes. I'm thinking if we move to Monmouth county, I won't be going into the city as much.
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