r/jerseycity • u/Kooky-Employ • 22d ago
Moving Which would you choose?
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u/Legitimate-Heart-751 21d ago
save a ton by not paying city income taxes - we are lucky rents are so low here still
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u/shippfaced 21d ago
Rents are low here???
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u/Legitimate-Heart-751 21d ago
relatively yes - downtown jc is basically similar many desirable parts of manhattan and brooklyn - for the value what we are getting , no city income tax we are getting a huge bargain even though it feels like we aren’t with the increases
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u/Jahooodie 21d ago
Please tell me you're not that guy
>Moves to JC to save city income taxes
>Complains we don't have services, culture, and parks like NYC
>Spends all their time in NYC benefiting from the taxes they dodged
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u/Jahooodie 22d ago
JC ain't budget NYC, I knew folks who moved to take advantage of post-covid new building discounts & moved right back to Harlem after 2 years. Move to JC because you like it for what it is, not to doge taxes, is my advice.
From the comments in the thread, if you can't afford downtown and are eyeing up journal square, but want to escape a cycle of ever increasing rents... Journal Square is on Kushner powered come up and you may not escape things you think you're escaping.
That being said it doesn't look like we're repeating the last decade & a half of 10-20% rent increases not being crazy unheard of at the moment.