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OP lives in Grove street's XX Columbus building. Keep your advice to yourself since neither OP nor I find any use with it, "buddy".

The path and lightrail schedule being terrible on weekends is a fact not an opinion.

And I hate to break it to you buddy but people using JC Reddit does not equal “the majority of residents in JC”. Take a walk outside of downtown JC sometime - there’s a whole big world out there.

Well, that's your opinion. A majority of residents in JC disagree with them being inconvenient to the point of needing a car. I don't think it would make sense to suggest a car as long as 100% of the residents feel that they don't need one given what OP has stated about themselves.

The high rent is making some of you delude yourselves into thinking JC is a booming metropolis when it really isn’t. The Path and the lightrail (the two major public transit options that people in JC rely on) absolutely suck on weekends.

The point is with no car you are absolutely limiting yourself if you have a normal 9-5 week day job. If you want to be stuck in downtown JC waiting for the path to go anywhere else on a weekend- have fun with that! I personally find living in a “city” and still relying on Amazon instead of being able to drive to a store to do my own shopping to be pretty bleak (which is what almost everyone without a car is admitting in this thread).

Also should be noted there are parts of JC where public transit sucks 24/7 and you genuinely do need a car to work and have a life - so if you move out of downtown that is something to think of.

Some people don't understand that you don't spend on things and keep losing money just because you have a high income if it doesn't serve its purpose as much. It's a losing battle trying to explain it to them.

Ok, your arguments against the other commenter are getting illogical.

Most "normal people" living in the downtown do not go to the beach or whatever multiple times a week and OP has also said how they spend more and more time working. The biggest upside of living here given the high rent is not needing a car, and that's what a majority of the people in downtown JC do. If you live here and own a car, that's good for you but you're a clear minority.

22% is significant, yes. It's not inflation, we don't expect it to go up every year.

I didn't say anything about hurting your feelings.

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Would also recommend reaching out to the school itself if that hasn't already been done. Many have departments dedicated to assisting international students with a variety of services (including on/off campus housing).

Are you not allowed to live here if you have a life outside of downtown jersey city and Manhattan? Some of you sound like the most boring people alive.

lol I love how everyone saying no car because it’s a city immediately admits they get literally all their groceries and necessities shipped to them via Amazon.

You can’t get this kind of convenience in the burbs am I right guys?

The cousin might be able to pay for a guarantor service.

See:

https://www.insurent.com/renters/

https://www.propertynest.com/blog/rent/guarantor-services-rental-apartments/

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It’s important for us to know what kind of car it is and that he paid in cash to determine wether or not he needs a car in jersey city.

Me asking “Is 22% / 3 years significant? Sounds like a minor increase” is a spectacularly bad faith reading of you sharing those exact stats…

Got it.

Don’t quit your day job.

Edit: The only person acting in bad faith is you claiming that I want to “murder people who hurt my feelings”. That is such a childish, braindead comment.

Spectacularly bad faith reading of my comment. Well done. Here's what I was responding to:

> open carry states seem to handle it pretty decently.

Go ahead and provide some data to support that any significant percentage of those homicide increases were "legal, self defense."

I am both against fighting bus drivers and deputizing anyone and everyone to execute people who do something that they decide is beyond the pale. Like you. I don't trust you to murder people at will if they offend you.

1. “Homicide” includes legal, self-defense killing, I hope you realize? Also, is 22% / 3 years significant? Sounds like a minor increase.
2. I don’t care. Don’t beat the skulls of working class bus drivers if you don’t want them to defend themselves. You go on and side with the perpetrators of violent crime, I guess.

For Newport rentals, they do rent out to people with no income or credit history. They ask for 6 months of advanced rent payment while leasing. I’m pretty sure most other leasing places will have similar process.

The other option is to have someone else with income be the guarantor. Most places here ask that the guarantors have an annual income of 40x the rent.

Anthony Armagno at Rand Realty on 553 Jersey ave in downtown Jersey city... Great guy straight forward and honest unlike other realtors

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You described jersey city perfectly. Funny thing, you thought you were cool and edgy moving there during COVID, but it’s already gentrified. Imagine 15 years ago…when all the buildings were burning!

Love this dude talking about an economic downturn in his post and then bragging about making $250k a year in the comments. F off dude

They’re literally all over the place in McGinley Sq, not uncommon to see in this town