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Me and my retired mother (whom I'm caring for) are planning on selling her house here in Florida and moving up to NJ to be closer to family. We used to live in the Jersey Shore area but our family members live in Hamilton, NJ and we're planning on moving close to them. I'm looking for some advice regarding this...
- We need to find an area no more then say 30 minutes from Hamilton, and also no more then 45 minutes or so from Philly since that's where I'm likely to be transferring my job.
- We need to find relatively cheap housing... no more then 125k, with not too high property taxes. We're probably getting around $70k from the sale of the house but our income can't afford too high a mortgage.
- The area needs to be relatively safe
We've found some promising homes in Hamilton as well as Burlington (city), Riverside, and Florence/Roebling... The main concern here is crime levels. Anyone have experience with the areas above I just mentioned, and does anyone have any other suggestions as to where to look?
I would look more around ewing, lawrenceville area, but the places you listed are ok except burlington city, when I go down there I feel like I'm down south, country folk and very poor.
You can find some nice quiet places to live in lawrenceville and its a stones throw from i95 and down the street from hamilton. And you get away from most of the trenton crime, its mostly a white area.
a budget of $125k will prob limit you to the shadier parts of NJ. You'd be much better off looking in PA.
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$125k, in the NJ real estate market, will only buy you an old, run-down bungalow in a crime-ridden area.
Rural PA would be much more realistic, given this type of budget.
Lower property taxes, 30 minutes to Hamilton and closer to Philly.
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