VA family wanting to relocate to NJ. HELP

[Craig-D]

Originally Posted by cw30000

OP dont do it. If you want a life, then stay in VA.

However, if you enjoy working to pay your bill and tax, welcome to NJ.

You don't appear to have ever been to Virginia lately. It isn't as cheap as you think. The metro D.C. areas of Virginia and Maryland are just as expensive as Northern NJ. The least expensive parts of NJ are central and south Jersey inland from the coastal towns. I'm actually quite shocked at the moderate housing prices in those parts of the state. It's like it's a different state from northern NJ. Newly constructed homes start in the $400k range down there! You can double that for the same thing in North Jersey. So I gotta believe rentals are much more reasonably priced as well. Thus, those are the areas of this state I'd look to if I was the OP. It's too far to commute daily to NYC, but close enough for weekend visits to see her family there.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Craig-D

You don't appear to have ever been to Virginia lately. It isn't as cheap as you think. The metro D.C. areas of Virginia and Maryland are just as expensive as Northern NJ. The least expensive parts of NJ are central and south Jersey inland from the coastal towns. I'm actually quite shocked at the moderate housing prices in those parts of the state. It's like it's a different state from northern NJ. Newly constructed homes start in the $400k range down there! You can double that for the same thing in North Jersey. So I gotta believe rentals are much more reasonably priced as well. Thus, those are the areas of this state I'd look to if I was the OP. It's too far to commute daily to NYC, but close enough for weekend visits to see her family there.

Yorktown isn't near DC. Read the first post.

[Craig-D]

Originally Posted by Gerania

Yorktown isn't near DC. Read the first post.

I did read it - especially the part where they want to be near the city. If they were willing to live in the sticks in NJ, the cost of living will be comparably inexpensive to the sticks of VA. But that's not what they want. Both states are comparable in costs the closer you move towards or away from the big metro areas. I will say that you can afford more house for the money in VA because real estate taxes will be lower.