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Interesting piece from last Sunday's NYT about New Yorkers moving out to the burbs. Maplewood of course prominently featured, as it is the "Park Slope" of New Jersey.
Nothing new there imo. New Yorkers moving to the usual suspects like they have been for years now.
Yes, I know.
NYT runs one of these sort of articles (complete with the obligatory gay or lesbian person, couple or family) at least once a month or so. If you talk to people who are *natives* to Montclair, Maplewood and a few other of the NJ towns NYT has dubbed "Park Slope West" the paper is contributing to the changes that not everyone is thrilled about.
It's nice to see that some of the hippest, coolest and self-identified as Progressives will be able to look past the NJ thing and become new residents.
"......For some people leaving Manhattan, he said, moving to a New York suburb is easier to digest than trading their city identity for a Jersey one: “As amazing as it is here, some people just can’t do it.”
Mary Kate Burke, 41, who moved to a Tudor in Maplewood with her 15-month-old daughter, Maya, and her husband, Shardul Kothari, 46, six months ago, said she worked through her stereotypes of Jersey quickly........"
I thought progressives were much too sophisticated and open minded to stereotype.
It's nice to see that some of the hippest, coolest and self-identified as Progressives will be able to look past the NJ thing and become new residents.
"......For some people leaving Manhattan, he said, moving to a New York suburb is easier to digest than trading their city identity for a Jersey one: “As amazing as it is here, some people just can’t do it.”
Mary Kate Burke, 41, who moved to a Tudor in Maplewood with her 15-month-old daughter, Maya, and her husband, Shardul Kothari, 46, six months ago, said she worked through her stereotypes of Jersey quickly........"
I thought progressives were much too sophisticated and open minded to stereotype.
Neighbors like that would be insufferable.
What is that old song: If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.....
IIRC that was the couple who *thought* they'd be going back to Brooklyn (for the parks, play dates, etc....) that they'd keep a hold on a grasp things there; a few one hour trips from the VNB to their old area of Brooklyn soon made them rethink that plan. Especially the wife who is home in NJ more than the husband who commutes into the city daily.
So Madame ventured out and discovered all that their new area in NJ had to offer. They'll soon join into the swing of things, if they haven't already. Again it will be Park Slope West.....
For the kind of money they are paying in taxes you'd think people moving to Maplewood, Montclair and so forth would delve right in and be happy to assimilate.
Hardly news. It has been this way since the beginning of time (or at least since both of these places were settled).
NYC has always been the gateway and NJ the natural stepping stone for many NY’ers and for those NY’ers on their way to the rest of the country.
Well it is sort of news as all we've been hearing for the near decade or so is that young people and many others (including their parents, grand parents or whatever) are fleeing the suburbs to live in urban areas like NYC, San Francisco, Boston, etc...
Lord knows in Manhattan nearly every area from below 125th street to Financial District is full of young (or not so) families (straight, gay, lesbian or whatever) pushing strollers, and or with a few kids in tow.
Ever since Rudy G. cleaned up NYC things (especially Manhattan) have fast becoming Berkley, Scarsdale, Greenwich, etc.. on the Hudson.
Problem is much of NYC is *very* expensive for housing, and you don't get much for all that money either. For what developers want for a two or three bedroom apartment (which isn't going to be very large), you might as well pack up and move to the suburbs.
Those that moved to Brooklyn a decade or so ago and didn't buy or otherwise nab something "family sized" are finding themselves priced out. You've got to go really east into Brooklyn to remotely find a row house or whatever anywhere near a good price. Problem is not everyone wants to raise their kids in East New York.
My parents left the Bronx 40 years ago
Trendsetters!
No, they were copycats!
My family moved from Brooklyn 62 years ago.
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