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Alpine is full of mansions so a very low % tax rate easily fills coffers. The downside is that if money is an object you're probably not considering Alpine in the first place (+ the low % is on a huge real estate value base).
Englewood Cliffs is relatively rich (but not nearly Alpine) but by law has to send it's students to Englewood. This (plus the nearby availability of excellent private schools) results in practically zero public school usage, so you have an upper-middle-class town in which you don't pay taxes for a public school system. It's the best tax value in the county if you don't have kids or intend to use private schools but terrible if you would have otherwise used public schools.
Paramus (another notable low-tax town but not quite in the same league) has an absolute ton of retail that drives down taxes. Other similar tax % towns tend to be balanced out by high property values; Paramus (while again, not cheap by any means) has disproportionately low residential tax due to all the retail. This is the best tax value assuming you do want to use the public schools.
There are, of course, other reasons to pick a town than tax rates and I think it would be pretty silly to choose your town out of all of those in the county because of tax rates. Now, if you were comparing similar areas (say Englewood Cliffs versus the east hill of Englewood itself) then it's def. worth looking into.
We don't have any ghetto towns , but we do have Industrial towns which tend to have lower property taxes...
I disagree with this. I live in Lodi, and its pretty ghetto. Also, Garfield is ghetto as hell in many areas... I mean its not a "ghetto" like you would find in Harlem or East New York, with 100 story high projects, but its a ghetto for BC, with 2 story projects.
Stay away from Lodi and Garfield, you will be disappointed.
I disagree with this. I live in Lodi, and its pretty ghetto. Also, Garfield is ghetto as hell in many areas... I mean its not a "ghetto" like you would find in Harlem or East New York, with 100 story high projects, but its a ghetto for BC, with 2 story projects.
Stay away from Lodi and Garfield, you will be disappointed.
Its poor , but its not a bad town. They both have flooding issues , but that's about it. In BC we don't have any Ghettos , Passaic is a ghetto or parts of it are.....and parts of Clifton.
Its poor , but its not a bad town. They both have flooding issues , but that's about it. In BC we don't have any Ghettos , Passaic is a ghetto or parts of it are.....and parts of Clifton.
Its not even so much poor, as it is a mess. Everything here is a rental, and the landlords dont care about the properties the way they should, and neither do the tenants. It becomes a vicious cycle, and you end up with trash. Ghetto does not just mean minorities, it applies to white trash too. I would rather live in parts of Passaic, than in Lodi.
Oh and btw: anywhere you can buy a single cigarette at the deli, or buy water bottles from random people for a buck on hot days at the on and off ramps of the highway, is a ghetto. Lodi, has both those things.
Also, there is a HUGE drug problem here. Its actually disgusting.
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