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  • Visited Hoboken yesterday(good friends moved there) and I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised. DH and I are talking about it as an option (due in 5 mos) for more space but we had never considered it befroe. Any Hobokeners on?

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    11.08.09, 08:13 AM [ Flag ]

    • we moved to hoboken last year and love it

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      11.08.09, 08:16 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • yup, live here and love it. glad you enjoyed your time here!

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      11.08.09, 08:36 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I have a couple of friends there with small kids and they love it. I don't think the school options are great, but you have time to worry about that.

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      11.08.09, 08:44 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Moved here 7 years ago, now have 2 kids (1yo and 3yo). I love it, but it isn't the same as living in Manhattan. Not in a bad way, but anyone who tries to sell you on "oh, it's just like being in the city..." isn't being honest. Some things are better: more for your money, housing-wise, slightly slower pace), some things aren't (fewer school options, can't take a cab home from the city, if your friends are in the city, it takes a lot of planning and cajoling to get them to visit). I have times that I really miss living on the UWS, but moving here was a great choice for us and our family.

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      11.08.09, 08:52 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Love it love it love it. Have 2 kids ages 1 and 4. Sending older kid to public preschool here (free and good). For elementary not sure yet but charter schools are excellent and hearing good things about the public elementary esp. Wallace. Great sense of community. New mayor and board of ed members + increasingly active parents = things are looking up for education. There's a yahoo group -- google HobokenMoms -- and you can get a lot more information there.

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      11.16.09, 08:30 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I didn't think there was a supermarket in Hoboken, is that accurate?

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      11.16.09, 09:02 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • and isn't the town bankrupt? property taxes are insane.

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        11.16.09, 09:07 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • No -- there's a very large shoprite and an A&P, plus a Target and a larger A&P less than a mile away

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        11.16.09, 09:14 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • but you need a car to get to those. you can't walk over to a supermarket, right? it's all bodegas or cvs

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          11.16.09, 09:19 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • Yes, you can walk to the A&P at 7th and Clinton or the Shoprite at 9th and Madison -- the whole city is only a mile square. And I have walked to the Target in Jersey City many times. We also have a Garden of Eden and several health food stores.

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            11.16.09, 09:33 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I don't get it. Is moving to an apartment in Hoboken like a stopover before you move to a house in another burb? With 2 young dcs we will either stick it out in the city or buy a house in the burbs, not an apartment in the burbs. it doesn't make sense to me.

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      11.16.09, 09:54 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • ditto. particularly in a burb with barely any good schools and property taxes as high as places where you actually get a yard. no thanks. i'd move to brooklyn before i'd move to hoboken.

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        11.16.09, 09:56 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • Or looking at it another way -- it's the best of both worlds. More space and quieter than the city, but still really close to manhattan and very walkable, lively, great street life and sense of community.

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          11.16.09, 06:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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