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Old 12-18-2020, 04:22 PM
 
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I'm gonna second this , you get what you pay for. Life on the NY side of the border is MUCH nicer, school districts, amenities, the population in general. The taxes may be higher but what good is that when your kids are addicted to hillbilly meth 10 years later. Spend 250k on a nice house in NY and then 100k on a LODGE and acreage in Pennsylvania.
OP, take what this poster has written with a grain of salt. I believe the poster has used the handle "Captain Trips" to vent his dislike for NEPA.
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Old 12-24-2020, 01:04 PM
 
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I'd be really skeptical about commuting to Northern NJ as an option. I used to live in NEPA (Bushkill) and commuted to NJ daily. It was a soul-sucking nightmare. By the time I got home Friday night (late) I'd be dreading Monday morning all weekend. 20 miles or less into NJ on 80 (or 78 - did that too from Lehigh Valley) the traffic stops dead. Every day. If it snows stay home. If it rains leave at least 30 minutes earlier than normal. I eventually took a lower paying job in Scranton and felt like I'd won the lottery. Unfortunately NW NJ is mostly all residential so there are not many jobs there. You need to go as far as possibly Parsippany/Morristown or farther east or south to find corporate offices.
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Old 12-25-2020, 03:14 PM
 
Location: Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA
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I'd be really skeptical about commuting to Northern NJ as an option. I used to live in NEPA (Bushkill) and commuted to NJ daily. It was a soul-sucking nightmare. By the time I got home Friday night (late) I'd be dreading Monday morning all weekend. 20 miles or less into NJ on 80 (or 78 - did that too from Lehigh Valley) the traffic stops dead. Every day. If it snows stay home. If it rains leave at least 30 minutes earlier than normal. I eventually took a lower paying job in Scranton and felt like I'd won the lottery. Unfortunately NW NJ is mostly all residential so there are not many jobs there. You need to go as far as possibly Parsippany/Morristown or farther east or south to find corporate offices.
And yet I live in Monroe County, PA and have been commuting the 35 miles to my job in Morris County, NJ since 1993. There are people in my office who live deeper in PA and still make it in every day.

*Covid work-from-home orders aside.
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Old 12-26-2020, 02:41 PM
 
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And yet I live in Monroe County, PA and have been commuting the 35 miles to my job in Morris County, NJ since 1993. There are people in my office who live deeper in PA and still make it in every day.

*Covid work-from-home orders aside.
OK, so I lived on the border of Monroe County and Pike County and commuted every day to Wayne NJ. So? The commute still sucks.
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Old 12-27-2020, 11:02 AM
 
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OK, so I lived on the border of Monroe County and Pike County and commuted every day to Wayne NJ. So? The commute still sucks.

What route? 84 and then 23 all the way to Wayne?
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Old 12-28-2020, 06:40 AM
 
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OK, so I lived on the border of Monroe County and Pike County and commuted every day to Wayne NJ. So? The commute still sucks.
I'd consider the drive from Bushkill down to the Gap a commute in itself. And you went all the way to Wayne? I'd hate that, too. I'm just pointing out that not every commute from PA to NJ is a killer.
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Old 12-28-2020, 08:30 AM
 
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I'd consider the drive from Bushkill down to the Gap a commute in itself. And you went all the way to Wayne? I'd hate that, too. I'm just pointing out that not every commute from PA to NJ is a killer.
Maybe not if you can find a good job in NW NJ. Like west of 206. Good luck with that.
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Old 12-28-2020, 08:32 AM
 
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What route? 84 and then 23 all the way to Wayne?
No...209 to 80 East to Exit 54
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Old 12-28-2020, 11:17 AM
 
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Maybe not if you can find a good job in NW NJ. Like west of 206. Good luck with that.
Thanks, I did!
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Old 12-28-2020, 02:34 PM
 
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