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Ok so what I’m reading is that if I’m only going to be going out on weekends then I should move to the Princeton area close to my job but if I’m going into a major city more than on weekends (or have the option to do so) then I should try New Brunswick.
I would only move to New Brunswick if you think you would like to live in New Brunswick better. (which will involve visiting there and seeing it for yourself) I would go stay there for a weekend, maybe at that Hyatt in downtown, and get a real feel for the area. Make sure you think it's worth the extra commute
Commute from philly would be bad. Driving it’s an hour and in the winter maybe longer. Train would be limited to Amtrak, also an hour plus getting to and from the stations. You could take NJ transit from philly but then you’d have to get from Trenton to Princeton, not very realistic.
Correction. SEPTA (PA) transit from Trenton to philly.
Plainsboro, West Windsor, Lawrenceville. Cranberry is a little small, but you may find something that takes pets. Somewhere between Route 1 and Route 130 or Route 1 and Route 206 or Route 27. When Plainsboro was first being developed, it was mainly an apartment community aimed at the yuppie/professional clientele. It's now evolved into a community of everything from Studios to Senior Living and everything in between. The nice thing is the open space, the proximity to Princeton, easy drive to Philly and the quick train to NYC. The traffic from New Brunswick or North Brunswick to Princeton will make you crazy~in the years that I lived there they added more lights, more businesses and more industrial parks and the traffic has just gotten worse. They are both gridlocked during rush hour and one weekends. Stay close to work and do your "playing" on weekends.
I agree. Personally, I can't imagine doing that drive just to live in New Brunswick of all places when I can get a nice apartment right around the Princeton area.
I agree. Personally, I can't imagine doing that drive just to live in New Brunswick of all places when I can get a nice apartment right around the Princeton area.
It's just one person's perspective. But I've hung out plenty in both cities (or towns).
All things equal, I prefer New Brunswick to Princeton.
There's more bars, there's a train station to get into NYC and there's a jazz scene.
Princeton has kind of a bar scene and the bars close early are spread out, and the train to the city is not convenient. I'm also a bit lower brow and Princeton is high brow.
I'm a drinker, or I was back then. I like to go drinking and bar hop and walk back to my apartment. If you time it just right, you can even get to midtown in an 1hr15 door to door. Princeton it'd be more like two hours.
So, that's the perspective I'm coming from.
Of course, if none of that stuff is appealing to you, then Princeton is good.
Just personal opinion, but I hate New Brunswick. At best it's a college town, but aside from the main drags it's pretty dumpy. Princeton, on the other hand, is beautiful all around. It also has a college in town but isn't as crime-ridden as New Brunswick. It has bars and whatnot too, but is also roughly equidistant (time-wise) to NYC and Philadelphia.
My dad worked in New Brunswick for 30+ years and the location was the thing he liked least about his job. It's just not a nice place.
I've lived in both areas too, for years, when I was young and used to go out
Dealing with the crime rate in New Brunswick doesn't make up for the few extra things there might be to do there. For me. And it's still an undergrad-focused area primarily
Just personal opinion, but I hate New Brunswick. At best it's a college town, but aside from the main drags it's pretty dumpy. Princeton, on the other hand, is beautiful all around. It also has a college in town but isn't as crime-ridden as New Brunswick. It has bars and whatnot too, but is also roughly equidistant (time-wise) to NYC and Philadelphia.
My dad worked in New Brunswick for 30+ years and the location was the thing he liked least about his job. It's just not a nice place.
I hate New Brunswick too. And I went to Rutgers. Maybe that's why!
I've lived in both areas too, for years, when I was young and used to go out
Dealing with the crime rate in New Brunswick doesn't make up for the few extra things there might be to do there. For me. And it's still an undergrad-focused area primarily
It's changed a lot probably since you went to school there. I've hung out there on a ton of weekends on George Street and never even once felt anything even close to threatened.
But anyway, this is not a mission for me.
If you guys think it's a sh@thole, I won't argue. It's not like I'm the mayor of New Brunswick or anything.
Princeton ain't too bad, we go there too. The canal is good to bike and jog. And Alchemist is probably better than anything New Brunswick has to offer.
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