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bigmphan t1_j1q8hi0 wrote

You’re on the right track - take a walk through Rutherford and Nutley as well. Great access to transport and good schools, nice downtowns and $750k will actually buy a home. Montclair/ Essex County taxes can get insane.

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TheRacoonist t1_j1qpbap wrote

If diversity is a top priority I'd take nutley off the list. Having grown up there, it's always been pretty low key racist

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bigmphan t1_j1qz5vf wrote

Ewww. I did not know that.

Rutherford then.

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jnleonard3 t1_j1st3dc wrote

I just moved to Nutley 6 months ago - I’d love to hear more. I’m not a POC so I would never know, though my neighbor has mentioned in passing that they had some bad (racist) eggs come and go through their years here.

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TheRacoonist t1_j1v17nj wrote

Just the usual meathead white guy bullshit really, casual use of racist slurs in conversation, bitchin about "those people" ruining the area. You'll definitely see more trump trash (still) than in surrounding towns.

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jnleonard3 t1_j1sul51 wrote

$750k would have been a stretch for our price range 9 months ago but we found that most of the houses in Rutherford we were looking at not far from that price had either big ticket issues or would have been death by a lot thousand cuts to fix up - just a symptom of the old houses there. We ended up in Nutley, and are quite happy with the house and town, we found the houses here were more affordable. If things were more equal though, we would have ended up in Rutherford - 100%.

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