Couple drops downtown lifestyle for Glen Rock suburbia
DECEMBER 7, 2014 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY DONNA ROLANDO
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New Glen Rock residents Nidhi Verma and Anant Aditya have the suburban home they wanted only because of the strategy they employed to break free from a life of convenience in Jersey City that had a powerful hold on them.
The first-time home buyers, in their early 30s, saw that their real estate search was getting nowhere, so they used a stopgap measure — a Secaucus rental — to toughen their resolve to buy in suburbia. It was what they needed at the time, the couple said, to leave their comfort zone at their Newport development in Jersey City with its 24-hour stores and easy commute.
“Newport is like 24/7 activity,” raved Aditya as his wife recalled the Rite Aid that was open all night right below their rental and the gym with a swimming pool right across the street, as well as the nearby parks.
“There was a lot we were leaving behind,” she said.
That’s when they decided on a short-term rental in Secaucus, knowing it would keep them focused on where they really wanted to raise their 3-year-old son — Bergen County suburbia — and that it could be a good first step in making the transition from, as Aditya described it, “downtown to suburban life.”
Their comfortable lifestyle included a dream commute to their jobs as software professionals. In fact, while Verma had to travel just 30 minutes to get to work, her husband could walk to the office.
https://www.northjersey.com/towns/from-urbs-to-burbs-with-a-push-1.1147943
There will come a point in time at which this couple will yearn for a short commute. However, better schools (without having to pay for private schooling) is certainly a big incentive for moving away from urban areas like Jersey City and Hoboken.
this is an anti apartment puff piece……
The 30 something’s are supposed to move into the apartments that are going to be built, Right? Cause ya know, who wants to live in Hoboken when you can live in downtown Ridgewood??…..NOT….