how is middlesex boro (Edison, Plainfield: low crime, buying a house, neighborhoods)

[Sweetie_9]

As a young couple with no kids yet (but planning) my biggest concern in buying a house right now is safety. I would like to move to central jersey, but i don't know a lot of the towns except for Piscataway and Edison. I recently saw a pretty house on middlesex, but I don't know the area.
Any comments about middlesex or any other towns in central jersey are welcome.

[alpineinc]

Working class town, not bad, neighboring Dunellen similar. Neighboring Piscataway IMO is a step up from that except maybe northeast near Plainfield.

If you want to stay along the 287 corridor, lower density Somerset County to the west is safer, but costlier.

[Sweetie_9]

thanks

[Jerseyt719]

Nothing wrong with Middlesex. Low crime, family neighborhoods. You're fine there and good luck.

[PDD]

I have lived in both Edison and Piscataway and I like the working class neighborhoods of Middlesex better than I do of Piscataway and Edison.
JMO but Middlesex, Piscataway and Edison in that order.