Home Depot gift card is solid idea.

My friend just got me something from here for our new home & I love it. Downtowner all the way!

I’d get a gift card to something you think they’d like. Local restaurants for example.

New homeowners could always use a Home Depot gift card. No joke.

Either will be highly appreciated. Moving is expensive and exhausting. Those are nice things someone moving will absolutely use.

I tend to shy away from alcohol unless I know what they drink. Some people are particular and others don’t drink for various reasons. I’ve known a few recovering alcoholics, and it’s a little awkward getting a bottle of wine. I’ll get a bottle some alcohol for a family member or friend if I know they like a particular drink. If I don’t know them that well, then I don’t.

PATH will follow the schedule you see on the PATH app or CityMapper app, if you plan for it then there's really no problem. The questions are a) how far / how many transfers to your fav haunts from the PATH stations in NYC and b) how far from PATH would you be living in JC? If you're relying on the Light Rail to get home once you get back into JC, that's a crapshoot late nights and weekends. If you're within 10-15 minutes walking from a PATH station then you're in good shape.

And probably sooner rather than later you'll find a bunch of places that in JC you really enjoy and spend less time in Manhattan than you will when you first move here.

That’s the riddle’s answer, it doesn’t matter the temperature.

Is that in Celsius or Fahrenheit?

Is the transit app the NJ transit app? Do you know how the 119 is in the mornings around 7:30?

I don't have to go on apartments.com. LOL. I know actual people and know their actual rent. And none of them are paying $4500/mo. 🤷‍♂️

Huh?

My rent is like $2950 a month in Downtown JC. There are PLENTY of people in NYC paying 4K+ for a one bedroom. That's actually the average right now. Just going on apartments.com and typing in New York City and you'll quickly see (at least on those listings) the average is between 3500-4500. Doing the same for Jersey City shows rents at Newport for as low as $1700. 225 Grand in Paulus Hook right by the ferry is showing a studio for $2,400 right now, which actually makes me want to consider moving.

Gift card to Downtowner - local home goods and they can pick up something from a super local place.

I use the citymapper app, it has real time data so I just plan to get there shortly before it comes. It runs more all night than my bus lines :( Ubers only after 2 am.

Great idea

It’s doable, the Path just sucks late at night.

The point of the financing is that you *don't* have to hit the lottery to afford a ~$25K capital outlay. You just pay monthly and your electric bill is lowered by more than your monthly payment.

I'm not arguing anything. I was very clear in my statement.

Both of them. 🤔

Wine.

Ok, are you trying to argue that NYC doesn’t have a higher cost of living? If so, I respectfully disagree.

Thanks! I'm afraid I'd have to hit the lottery first, and that's highly unlikely. Nice to think about though. I could switch to electric and dump PSEG (most of the time).😁

PATH “runs all night” …kinda. I’ve spent a lot of hours sitting at Christopher street or WTC waiting on trains. And then there’s the Hoboken issue on weekends. And the crowd levels can be nuts at 2am because the trains run so infrequently.

Thats so kind of you, I think your ideas are so great and would be appreciated. And there are lots of great suggestions in the comments too. There's a newish home store called Living Room (where Casa mona flowers used to be) on Newark, if you're looking for a home goods type of gift.

An apartment in Williamsburg that is equal in size and quality to the one you're living in now is not the only option in NYC, which is why, no one I know living in NYC is paying $1000/mo more than apartments in Downtown Jersey City, and it's not necessarily probable that someone living in NYC is spending $1000/mo more.

Word Bookstore!

Going north to the Lincoln tunnel to cross and then go south will add more than 10-15 minutes.

Get an in-store gift card to WORD! and encourage them to ask the staff for recommendations for kids, the folks there really know their stuff.

An apartment that is equal in size and quality to the one I’m living in now is about $1k more in Williamsburg. It will obviously vary across neighbor and apartment types.