Moving to Monsey Rentals Chassidish not Driving

amother

↑ OP ↓

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 7:52 am

amother Chocolate wrote:

It's a very frum/viznitz area. Even if the apartment doesn't say no smartphone, the neighbors may not appreciate you sitting outside on your phone, especially if there are lot's of children around.

Ahh. Ok this makes more sense. I get it.

Is there an area that is not like that?

amother

↑ Chocolate ↓

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 7:53 am

amother Springgreen wrote:

OP check out Valleyside I think it fits the bill Wink

Shul on Ridge, 10-15 min walk to Atrium/all fresh, 15 min to Hatzlacha.
Shul with Mikva on ridge. Shabbos women’s Mikva in the area.

Or streets around - S.Cole, Ridge, S. Madison

Valleyside is not that close walking to shopping & not walking distance to women's mikvah. And the crowd there is.....

amother

DarkRed ↓

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 7:53 am

The twin ,Decatur is a very nice chassidish neighborhood. Not necessarily satmar. It's near a supermarket pizza shop and hosiery store. The main shopping is like half hour walk or take a car. There's many mikvah options for bucherim.

amother

↑ Springgreen ↓

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 7:54 am

amother Chocolate wrote:

Valleyside is not that close walking to shopping & not walking distance to women's mikvah. And the crowd there is.....

Huh?
The only thing true here is that it’s not walking distance to weekday women’s Mikva.

amother

↑ DarkRed

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 7:55 am

amother Chocolate wrote:

Valleyside is not that close walking to shopping & not walking distance to women's mikvah. And the crowd there is.....

Op, are u referring to woman's mikvah or for your boys to have access to a close by mikva every morning?

amother

↑ OP ↓

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 7:57 am

amother Springgreen wrote:

OP check out Valleyside I think it fits the bill Wink

Shul on Ridge, 10-15 min walk to Atrium/all fresh, 15 min to Hatzlacha.
Shul with Mikva on ridge. Shabbos women’s Mikva in the area.

Or streets around - S.Cole, Ridge, S. Madison

I just checked. It's 20 minutes from Evergreen. Somehow that is what I refer to when I Google. Thats what made me open this thread because everything seems so far from the main area.

There's an apartment in one of those streets with a month free rent which cracks me up.
Other apartments are expensive and seem to be more to the high end side.

Is it a very upper class neighborhood? Even if I can afford the rent I can't afford to live between upper class people iykwim. Smile

amother

Candycane

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 8:03 am

amother OP wrote:

Valleyside is less then 20 min walk to evergreen. It’s a great area for people that moved from the city. It’s definitely not considered a rich area.

amother

↑ Springgreen ↓

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 8:04 am

amother OP wrote:

Right so for weekly grocery shopping you can choose between all fresh or Hatzlacha, for clothing and other shopping it’s a bit farther 20 min to evergreen, 25 min to shoppers haven (there is a shortcut in the back of the mall).

amother

↑ Chocolate ↓

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 8:12 am

amother OP wrote:

Oh I thought you need close walk to women's Mikvah.
Valleyside is not an upper class development. It's a rental development with 3 bedroom apartments.
You may not love the crowd there though.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 8:16 am

amother Chocolate wrote:

Oh I thought you need close walk to women's Mikvah.
Valleyside is not an upper class development. It's a rental development with 3 bedroom apartments.
You may not love the crowd there though.

Can you tell me more? I can pm you if you think its lh.

amother

Impatiens

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 8:30 am

Another idea is that you make a list of all big grocery stores. They are all near other stores. When you hear of an apartment for rent, check on Google how far the walk is to the nearest Grocery. If it's within a 20 minute walk then you are good. There are shuls all over these area so you don't need to worry.
You should properly budget for a weekly round trip taxi to other stores.

Big groceries that I could think of this minute are hatzlacha, Rockland kosher, evergreen, monsey glatt.

When you find the apartment that you like, you should go to the nearest grocery to see the route and check out the 2/3 nearest shul to confirm that you are comfortable in one of those shuls. It's also a benefit to go to the apartment when it's nice weather so that you could see the neighbors outside.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 8:38 am

amother Impatiens wrote:

Thanks
I won't be home most days so I'm not so concerned with the transportation aspect as I can always make a stop when I'm out.

I would like to live in center though.
Last minute grocery erev shabbos (yes I'm very last minute type and it's over I'm not going to change) etc.

If you have older children you know that with older children they always always have a function in center of town regardless of which town it is and I want it to be walking distance.

amother

Dandelion

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 8:43 am

amother OP wrote:

It’s not like there is one center that is walking distance to a lot of stuff. You need to decide which shul you want near you. Also it’s not like there are apartments available on every block. You need to evaluate each listing separately.

amother

Topaz

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 8:47 am

Monsey is huge. There is no center. For example you might be close to satmar shul, but then you won't be close to the satmar cheder and school. Or you might be really close to evergreen, but then it'll be a pretty far walk to other things. You need to choose what is most important for you to be walking distance to, and then you can decide what area makes most sense for you.

amother

Ballota ↓

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 8:55 am

Monsey has a lot of hills. So even if you're close to a stores , walking is often very difficult.
People in monsey use taxis a lot.
There are a lot of people that don't drive in monsey. A lot of them live around hatlzocha supermarket.
For a lot of people the fact that they live next to a grocery is good enough for them.
You learn to buy enough to last you through the week. Most people go to main st/rt 59 once a week/once a month.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 9:03 am

I think I need to take a step back on this.
I know Monsey mainly from work related visits and from visiting people mainly on the outskirts.

I feel like maybe I'm not understanding the culture and it's be a big mistake to do this without enough research.

Thanks for your help everyone.

amother

↑ Springgreen

Sun, Jan 12 2025, 11:07 am

amother OP wrote:

Can you tell me more? I can pm you if you think its lh.

It’s got a bad rep because 10+ or so years ago when it was new and very out of area only certain types of families lived there.
By now it’s very different, totally in the area with ridge and S. Cole built up and chasidish, with a variety of fine and simple chasidish families living there, but a bad name is hard to get rid of.