Will keep this as short as possible but I’ve been living in NJ most of my life, but mostly in Bergen County. My partner and I have been living in Montclair for the past year and a half as I felt it was a perfect middle ground between what he wanted (not too city-like, no crazy parking garages/traffic as he’s not from Jersey and is more used to suburban/spaced out) and what I wanted (walkable, plenty of restaurants and things to do, still somewhat close to the city as I used to live in Hoboken previously and loved the proximity)
We’re now looking at our next stop, and I realize I’m asking for a unicorn. I work in the Fort Lee/Englewood Cliffs area so would love any suggestions on where to move next that could get as CLOSE to these wishes as I could:
- walkable area with train to NYC that is faster or more frequent than Montclair (mostly on the weekends as Montclair is only every 2 hours 🙄)
- not crazy parking or driving next to tunnels like Jersey City and Hoboken
- cute or lively downtown that is safe at night
- ideally closer to Englewood Cliffs than Montclair currently is
- not tiny like Ridgewood, Wyckoff, etc. those areas are a little boring to me
I would love to stay in Montclair if they ran the train schedules on the weekends like they did the weekdays (but that’s a different issue)
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