New Jersey - The 10 Best Places To Live & Work - Highly Educated, Perfectly Situated

New Jersey is a beautiful state with plenty of shore towns, a state famous for high-performing public schools, with one of the highest high school graduation rates in the country.
From dense urban areas like Newark and Jersey City to green countrysides and charming villas, New Jersey offers diverse places to live.
Families flock to the Jersey Shore during warm summer months while many outdoor lovers venture to the Skylands for hiking, hunting, and camping. North Arlington, Princeton, Westfield, ... are among the best places to live in New Jersey.
Its rural farmland is a source of fresh local produce that you’ll find displayed on farm stands, albeit mostly in summer.
However, The Garden State is accused of having some of the highest taxes in the country. And being too populated. A land mostly made up of highways, yet traffic is a constant theme here.
New Jersey has a diverse and innovative economy that includes major pharmaceuticals, life sciences, financial services, ...
Twenty-one Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in the state, which also has operations for more than 1,100 multinational companies representing 40 nations.
So if it were a standalone country, New Jersey would rank as the 19th-largest economy in the world.
It is possible to work in New York and live in New Jersey; or spend a Saturday in Philadelphia and be back home for dinner.
The Garden State’s low cost of living adds to its appeal, and it’s a contributing factor to why many young professionals, families, and retirees are putting down roots in the state.
Here are the 10 best places to live in New Jersey:
1. North Arlington. (overall, good for families)
2. Princeton. (overall, good for families)
3. Atlantic City. (retiree)
4. Westfield (many jobs)
5. Clifton. (affordable, good for families)
6. Madison (affordable)
7. Long Beach Township (retiree)
8. Hoboken. (many jobs)
9. Jersey City (overall)
10. Newark (overall)
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(This article is an opinion based on facts and is meant as infotainment)

[michaeljordan]

I’ve lived in NJ for over 40 years.
One day I’ll have to visit the NJ that this guy is describing.

[maniacmike]

How could Newark and AC be on that list? The crime is through the roof. You might as well include Camden on that list

[jonathan]

The most lies I’ve heard in YouTube video 😂😂

[nessapainter]

I'm a lifelong resident of NJ. I love the area I live in. But this video is insane. I wonder if whoever put this together ever visited. Truly weird top picks for places to live, unless it was made for people desperately trying to escape Manhattan, the rest of NYC, and NY state. Get real!The states taxes are unbelievable! The cost of living is insane.

[enbuchwald]

As a lifelong resident of New Jersey I say this video seems to be just PR bullshit. Low cost of living? Are you kidding! We pay the highest property taxes in the country. Our state flag should show what NJ is most known for by those driving through our state, a toll booth. Go ahead, and build your dream home down on the Jersey shoreline, and watch it be swept into The Atlantic Ocean some day with rising water levels. Yes, really there are some pretty parts of the state, especially in The Northwest part of the state, but this video seems to have been made for to lure unknowing outsiders to this high cost of living state. And let me in on a little secret, Summit, NJ is downright better than any of those towns mentioned in this video.

[proskkywhitestorm]

As much as I love and favor my state of NJ, this seems like bull. Like seriously it’s fucking expensive to live over here.

[fredz]

New Jersey is expensive state for living and is the state with the highest property taxes in the nation

[kaykhan]

Reasonable taxes??? Are we talking about the same NJ? 😂

[toh]

Apparently this moderator never set foot in Newark

[johnbleier]

It must be a different New Jersey than the one I live in

[itsforsight]

I live in New Jersey and I started laughing so hard when he said newark

[Monster_Mover_Stocks]

As soon as I saw New Jersey in the title, I knew this was a prank video.

[gianluigi]

80-90% of the information in this video is bogus. Newark and Atlantic City are not towns you want to move to. They are places you would want to leave

[tms-fxzs]

As a lifelong New Jersey resident! I wholeheartedly question and disagree with this list after ranking North Arlington # 1 in the state? No offense to that town folks but they left out several other thriving and well-balanced towns. Come on now.

[simonng]

I just read an article “The Most Dangerous Cities In New Jersey: 2021’s Ultimate List”, and it ranks Newark as number 1. Very surprise to know Newark winning both titles.

[iamgenius]

They forgot to mention Camden as one of the most beautiful and safe cities in the entire world. It should have been a tie for #1 spot.

[ceraz]

My dad was watching this and my neck nearly snapped when the first city mentioned was Newark 😂

[laquanadavis]

I'm a straight up Jersey Girl...love the shore born and raised here. But seriously, I want whatever these people are smoking who concocted this list and said the cost of living is low in NJ. They are tripping.👀

[chrisamz]

The fact that both Newark and Atlantic City made it in this list shows how much little research was done to make this video

[HawthorneHillNaturePreserve]

I’m 58 and I’ve lived in New Jersey my whole life and although it’s a great state with so many great places to see, some of the stuff this video is saying it’s completely untrue. Taxes suck! If you look at some of the videos the backgrounds are fake we don’t have mountains behind Clifton like that with snowcapped peaks. I live in Sussex County in the upper Northwest portion of New Jersey and it’s one of the most beautiful places you could imagine in the Northeast of the United States. The Appalachian mountains run right through our county and when people visit they think they’re in another country and can’t believe it’s New Jersey. New Jersey is the Garden State for a reason. But this video is pretty wacky.