Or just fans of sunlight.

Is it April 1 already?

Realtor.com

Yes

I’ve lived here for over a decade but your extreme defensiveness to an arbitrary comment has been duly noted.

So you say :)

The people who believed the realtor when they were told “it’s just like Brooklyn” and now realize they are basically paying NYC prices to live in a suburb? JC is not the deal it was 15 years ago.

Sorry I struck a nerve 😬

Because it’s a glorified commuter rail but no one wants to admit it otherwise they’d have to really think about how much they are paying to live in not-New York.

The reliance on Amazon for literally everything is one of the better reasons to hold onto a car…

You’ll probably want to start your errands early today- looks like the path is using the holiday schedule and stopping in hoboken even though it’s Monday. Have fun!

The path and lightrail schedule being terrible on weekends is a fact not an opinion.

And I hate to break it to you buddy but people using JC Reddit does not equal “the majority of residents in JC”. Take a walk outside of downtown JC sometime - there’s a whole big world out there.

The high rent is making some of you delude yourselves into thinking JC is a booming metropolis when it really isn’t. The Path and the lightrail (the two major public transit options that people in JC rely on) absolutely suck on weekends.

The point is with no car you are absolutely limiting yourself if you have a normal 9-5 week day job. If you want to be stuck in downtown JC waiting for the path to go anywhere else on a weekend- have fun with that! I personally find living in a “city” and still relying on Amazon instead of being able to drive to a store to do my own shopping to be pretty bleak (which is what almost everyone without a car is admitting in this thread).

Also should be noted there are parts of JC where public transit sucks 24/7 and you genuinely do need a car to work and have a life - so if you move out of downtown that is something to think of.

Are you not allowed to live here if you have a life outside of downtown jersey city and Manhattan? Some of you sound like the most boring people alive.

lol I love how everyone saying no car because it’s a city immediately admits they get literally all their groceries and necessities shipped to them via Amazon.

You can’t get this kind of convenience in the burbs am I right guys?

It’s important for us to know what kind of car it is and that he paid in cash to determine wether or not he needs a car in jersey city.

Congrats? Most normal people aren’t going to the beach to “walk around for 2-3 hours” with just the clothes on their back. Its relaxing to drive back in air conditioning with room for blankets/umbrellas instead of carrying it on your back while standing in the hot sun covered in sand and waiting for a train that will be followed by atleast 1-2 transfers.

Also NYC beaches are mostly disgusting and I say that with love. They don’t even compare to jersey or Long Island. But that’s what’s nice about having a car- I can have all these options and I’m not limited to dirty beaches or whatever hikes are near a train station. It allows me to have a great quality of life 7 days a week 🥰

Ah yes who doesn’t love soaking up the sun at the beach or going on a long hike and then ubering(if you can find a car) back to the train station that runs on a tight schedule, and then riding the train for an hour and then waiting for the path and/or lightrail while lugging all your beach gear?😍

Sounds like a fun and relaxing day! I bet it’s even more of a blast on weekends when the schedule sucks.

Its feasible but relying on public transit and Ubers for everything outside of downtown will add up quickly and more importantly be a time suck. Jersey city isn’t like Manhattan where public transit actually ends up being faster than driving - it just makes running errands longer and more miserable. It also drastically limits your ability to do outdoor activities that would otherwise be super accessible with a car - beach, hiking, skiing, etc. If you’re fine with being stuck in downtown JC and don’t do anything else it’s manageable.

Yeah I have to assume those cars belong to people from out of town because no one remotely familiar with the area would leave their car there with the forecast we had. The coffee spot, bagel place, and pizza place there are all really good!

A day later?? What is there to know?

Newport is so boring/fragile that a fire truck generated two posts in this sub …. are you really that surprised?

This particular area always floods when there’s a lot of rain

The little piggies need their slop

Would probably be more riveting content than the “will someone be my realtor for free?” posts

lol