Community recommendation

Diamond Member Joined: May 09 2008 Posts: 2630

Can anyone recommend a nice, young community with affordable housing in either NY or NJ?

DH and I would like to buy either a townhouse, or a house, and are open to any place but we just don't know where to look.

Thanks in advance for any advice....

Posted: Mon, Sep 01 2008, 1:50 am Post subject: re: Community recommendation

You have to give us more info to go on before we can help you.

What kind of community are you looking for - chassidish, yeshivish, MO, etc?

What do you consider affordable housing?

Diamond Member Joined: May 09 2008 Posts: 2630

Right, sorry, I realize I was vague.
We are MO. DH wants to move to where all my friends live which is the five towns area, but the homes there are a fortune. I am open to going somewhere new, where I know we can make additional friends than the ones we have. I just have no clue where to even look. What is affordable homes to me? Well put it this way....the ones in 5 towns start at like 800,000 and go upward, and those homes can be old and run down. For some reason, the lower housing prices have not affected that area. We are in our mid-late 20's and we want to be near couples around our age.

Posted: Mon, Sep 01 2008, 8:48 am Post subject: re: Community recommendation

I always recommend Highland Park, NJ. I don't know about the housing, but the community is fantastic. I don't live there, but would love to.

Executive Member Joined: Oct 09 2007 Posts: 405

I am not sure where in the 5 Towns you are looking but there are a lot of houses on the market in the 600K range - and in North Woodmere there are houses in the 500K range. As for as the what I've seen in the 800K range they were all brand new beautiful houses. Call a broker give them your price range and I'm sure they'll have tons to show you under 800K