Don’t really have one, hence trying to get others involved! Usually not mornings though. 😅

Depends on the day, and talking, but a range of 17-22 minute/mile.

Every city has its good and bad. If a person focuses on nothing but the negatives, wherever in the world they are and will be will just all be sour to them. If we focus on our cities positive things we can enjoy it a lot more. Jersey city has shown recently that it has alot of potential for a lot of things and has changed tremendously over the years. We have one of the most diverse cities in the world! And that’s a beautiful thing. It’s definitely not a boring city as there is always something to do. I find the people of our city to be friendly and straight forward people with a warm heart. As well as the don’t mess with us side and we that grew up here can relate and know this😁 I simply believe that if a person is just sour… they can even be on a beautiful island for that matter, and still be sour, if they just want to focus on the negatives. I love my city with its good and it’s bad!😊 So let’s try to love the greatness of our beautiful city instead of bashing it as there are other cities people are more than welcomed to go there if they don’t like Jersey City😊

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So funny, I could have written that 15 years ago. Cheers!

>Dense development is only considered desirable when it is high income or senior housing.

That's one of the silliest things I've ever heard. Middle income high rises are possibly even more sought after than luxury in the NY Metro.

Besides, in most cases of opposition to density, the horrifying zoning proposal is usually up from single family to 2-4 units, not high rises. In JC people were ready to riot against allowing 4 floors along commercial corridors in R-1 zones, like Palisade Avenue.

Wdym OP dropped a number and it's reasonably in line with expectations.

What's your schedule?

I never go over there so I guess I don’t think about it. I live a block over from 440 so I need to go through that intersection to get literally anywhere. I hate it. Haha.

How about tonnele av/1,9/139? IMO it’s a lot worse

I love how accessible everything is. Most things are walkable and if they aren’t, easy to get to via light rail or PATH. I love the proximity to Manhattan for work - my commute was cut in half moving here. I love the diversity of the population and the community of people here. Everyone I’ve met has been so lovely. The food! Happy hours here are great, much more chill than being in the city or down the shore.

If there’s one immediate thing I could change and banish off the planet it would be the hell that is the Communipaw/1&9/440 clusterfuck of an intersection.

People around metro NY make a sport of complaining. A bit of the Four Yorkshiremen skit from Monty Python tbh. Haters gonna hate etc. No place is perfect is what I’ve learned.

Really nice. The only issues are if you have to go to Manhattan a lot. Your choices are basically the ferry which doesn't run all hours or you have to do a musical chairs of taking the light rail to the Hoboken PATH station and then taking the PATH. That's the reason I didn't end up there. It's too convoluted to easily get into the city if you don't take the ferry. Timing all those trains up is a pain and super inconsistent during non business hours. But the neighborhood is lovely.

If you have to work or spend a lot of time in Manhattan especially if you're there late I'd recommend Jersey City. It's slightly more expensive but the transit options are much better. There's PATH trains to both 6th Avenue (up to 33rd Street) and World Trade Center where you can easily hit a ton of lines in the city. Jersey City is also slightly easier to get in and out of if you have a car (not by much) and of course there's just way more there overall. Restaurants, shops, hotels, bars, JC is a big city.

As far as flooding yes it can be an issue. I don't know if it's an issue at Port imperial specifically as most of that development is post Sandy. But Edgewater floods for sure and Hoboken took it on the chin. But that entire drive up the river through Weehawken, Guttenberg, West NY and Edgewater, along the river is beautiful and it would be a great place to live all things considered. In a lot of ways you get a suburban lifestyle directly across from Manhattan.

I had an issue with them not having specialists this at first. but they are good at referring out when I needed it. I would love to see them expand to NJ, their services are so affordable and a lot of people here could benefit. They also have programs for people who don’t have insurance.

I find it to be exciting to be living somewhere that is changing so rapidly. Feels like we’re all part of a big moment. I walk around wondering what this place will look like in a year, two, three.

More specifically, we have some of the most neighborly people I’ve met. We’ve made excellent friends in a short period of time. Our kid goes to a school we love.

Diversity is a common thread between our friends and our kid’s classmates.

How close everything is relatively speaking. Every time I go anywhere where it's impossible to get around without a car I want to leave within 3 days.

It's a very diverse place.

For a city of its size and not the primary city in its metro, this city has so much potential to really be its own cosmopolitan city even if we are next to nyc.

This city catches so much flak but I haven't seen too many places do a 180 in terms of development and positive public perception. I can name so many other places in the US that people seem to love but I feel like are complete shit holes and they don't catch the same amount of negativity.

But thats probably the biggest thing I hate about JC and NJ as a whole. People have such a negative attitude about things and just bitch and moan as opposed to actually coming up with solutions to solve the issues.

Dense development is only considered desirable when it is high income or senior housing. Displacment gentrification or development, it doesn't really matter which comes first. The end result is pretty much the same. Call me NIMBY if you want, but huge buildings towering over a neighborhood of houses just look ridiculous. I won't enjoy living close to them.

Do you mean port Imperial?

Thanks. How is Port Imperial?

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Only a neighbor who would BLAST music, but I think that would be a problem anywhere. Nothing after they moved out. I heard living on the top floor would get noisy since it’s right below the rooftop where people hang out, but we never had an issue.

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