Originally Posted by
jumping ship
We will be empty-nesters soon, and plan to make the jump from the west coast and want to settle in the northeast, preferably somewhere with an easy drive to EWR. Yes I know property tax is bad, etc, etc.... Any suggestions from crowd for great places to live in the area? thanks!
Easy drive is pretty subjective. I was based in SFO for 18 years. Short of living in Burlingame, there was no such thing as an easy drive. I'm in Pennsylvania, just across the Delaware River from New Jersey. I'm 55 minutes away from Newark Airport and 1 hour from Manhattan. Housing prices in PA are about half of what you'd pay in Jersey, and state taxes are very low. When we made the decision to bail from California, we looked EVERYWHERE around EWR for a place that balanced proximity, cost, and quality of life. As much as I'd enjoy a 15 minute drive to the airport, the cost to live in NJ was far too high for me.