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Re: Grove Path- Any original topics?
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GrovePath keeps me plenty updated with recent shootings, beatings and muggings. quite the time saver. a one stop shop you might say.

Posted on: 2009/4/5 16:21
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Re: Dog Poop on Magnolia Ave.
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wow JClist.

honestly, 1 more dog shite thread, i may leave this site for good.

come on webbie, start filtering these out.

Posted on: 2009/3/7 13:58
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Re: Cutting Down Crime
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in my opinion, as i've said before, as long as people continue to move to JC, build condos and apt. complexes and business continues to boom in JC because of it's close proximity to NYC, the crime problem will never be fixed. people obviously don't care much about the crime if they're continually moving into JC/investing here. the almighty dollar/NYC access trumps the crime problem in JC........why else would all of you live here?

"yeah, there's crime, but it's soooooo close to NYC".....

because of this, the city's money will continue to be spent on things other than crime fighting.

Posted on: 2009/3/6 9:03
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Re: living well in a bad economy
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clothing:

i used to drive to Salvation Army stores in off locations. at one time i was going to New York state maybe once every few months to visit friends, and I would hit up the Sallies there. i would buy t-shirts for a dollar or less. I'm tall and quite thin, so the old style/cut t-shirts fit me much better.....which was mostly what they had. I still have every single one I bought from Sallies, some of them going on 7-8 years old (since I bought them, who knows how long the 1st owner had them) because they still look like the day I bought them. old, but good construction, along with fitting me better.

I distinctly remember buying a t-shirt there for 75 cents. best t-shirt I've ever had. I've fished in this thing, ran hundreds of miles in it, mountain biked for years wearing it......still wear it today, still fits and looks the same.

food:

get yourself a rice cooker. the initial investment costs you a bit, but in one year, you can save bundles. a good rice cooker will keep a batch of rice for 3-4 days. you can buy vegetables and meat, some simple sauces, and make your own dishes with rice. not to mention, eating good rice is much healthier and less fattening than bread, pasta or potatoes.

drinks:

go to BJ's, CostCo., whatever wholesale company you like, and buy your drinks in bulk. it's incredible how much money one can spend popping in and out of 7-11's and QuickCheck's all week and buying a soda here, a Sobe there. I don't drink coffee but I'm a soda drinker, so I started buying cases of soda and bringing them with me to work, and i cut my monthly beverage costs by about 70%.

entertainment:

play cards with friends. hell, even play for money. that's right, keep it interesting and gamble. with say 4 people, a fun night of Poker can be had with a 30 pack of your favorite cheap beer ($15-$18) and $10 each to gamble with. $14 each for a night of cards, laughs and if you want to drink to the point of drunkenness, you're entitled to at least 7 of the 30 beers. not to mention, if you are having luck on one particular night and you're winning, the night may not cost you anything at all

Posted on: 2009/3/4 9:19
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Re: Top 10 Beer lists: In anticipation of Zeppelin Hall (beer garden)
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I almost forgot: Brooklyn Lager

Posted on: 2009/2/25 17:39
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Re: Top 10 Beer lists: In anticipation of Zeppelin Hall (beer garden)
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hmmm........

I'm surprised Fat Tire is not on anyone's list.

I'm a huge fan of Anchor Steam, in my top 3, but Fat Tire at times can be arguably better.

I always look forward to Fat Tire on tap when I'm in Las Vegas.

Posted on: 2009/2/24 7:00
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Re: Unleashed Mastiffs Attack JC Man Downtown this Morning
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justiceiro wrote:

"a?nal?o?gous (-nl-gs)
adj.
1. Similar or alike in such a way as to permit the drawing of an analogy.
2. Biology Similar in function but not in structure and evolutionary origin."

and then wrote:

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Well, it's not a drug dealer, but It's close enough. Ask, and you shall recieve.


i'm not much for the spelling police, but:


"I before e, except after c" is a mnemonic device devised to help students remember how to spell certain words in the English language. It means that, in words where i and e fall together, the order is ie, except directly following c, when it is ei. For example:

ie in words like siege, friend, thief
ei in words like ceiling, receive


Posted on: 2009/2/12 17:06
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Re: Dog "at home" day care?
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bummer. i'm sure someone in JC offers this service.

Posted on: 2009/2/10 6:54
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Re: Moving to JC
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relative safety.......hmmmm.

if you know anything about Jersey City, you'd know that it's one of the most unsafe cities in New Jersey. you move here, your chances of getting mugged, beaten, your car stolen.....increase dramatically. come on, there were like 27 homicides in Jersey City last year alone.

i might get flamed for this one, but let's be honest.....Jersey City and safety do not go hand in hand, so JCBound, if safety is a big concern, find another place to live.

in the end, it doesn't matter because people for the most part know about the violence/crime here and move to JC anyway because of it's location.

Posted on: 2009/2/8 14:08
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Re: A Case Study in What's wrong with JC Real Estate:
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I say boo freaking hoo.

They're millionaires.

They're smart people.

They'll figure out how to "get by" on half a million a year.

Posted on: 2009/2/5 18:53
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Re: Property tax bills not as bad as you think
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http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/200 ... erty-taxes-in-the-nation/

That's an article from The Wall Street Journal discussing how NJ has the highest property taxes in the nation.

Yes, they ARE as bad as you think.

Posted on: 2009/2/2 10:12
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Re: A Case Study in What's wrong with JC Real Estate:
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SamS wrote:


"If they had rented over the years they wouldn't have the capital to move into a smaller house at no expense to them; nor an estate to leave behind."

the rest of your post makes perfectly valid points, but this in particular i may have to disagree with.

if they were renting over the years and not paying:

-property tax

-higher heating/electricity/cooling costs

-property maintanance, landscaping, etc.

-replacing siding, septic, heating maintanance/replacements, painting, recarpeting, driveway repair, new roof, etc. etc. etc.

-new windows

....along with any other thing that needs to be fixed in the house, you can most certainly believe that it would total more than enough money for them to buy themselves a new small home, for cash, today. not to mention, with all that extra cash, they could have been investing it through the years.

also, let's consider something else.....what if someone didn't put the $100,000 nut they saved for a downpayment on a house, and invested it? what would they have in 30 years?

consider a simple CD deposit:

a 10 year CD of $100,000 at 5% interest would yield $62,000. reinvesting that value for another ten years gives you $258,000. reinvest that value again, and at the end of 30 years, you are sitting on $420,000, plenty of money to buy a small house for cash, live mortgage free and still have something to leave for your children.

Posted on: 2009/1/27 17:14
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Re: A Case Study in What's wrong with JC Real Estate:
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coming back to this if i may.....

i know that real estate can be very profitable, there are any number of success stories regarding making money off of the sale of a house/condo whatever, but it is still a bit cloudy to me in the end.

when i think about a real estate investment, i generally refer to my parents.....

my parents bought their home in 1977. they paid $72,000. now, 32 years later, it's appraised value is around $650,000. it's a big house that they no longer need, so if they were to sell the house and move into something smaller, in NJ, they would still have to spend at least $400,000 for a nice small house, fairly new, in a nice area that didn't need work that two people in their 60's wouldn't want to do.

let's say they pocketed $200,000.

is that a good investment? 30+ years of wasted weekends cutting grass, shoveling snow, running out to Home Depot for this and that, new roof, septic, etc. etc..........?

they paid more than $200,000 in interest alone on their mortgage, more than that on 30+ years of property taxes.......so did they make any money at all?

my parents/family have always been the kind that will tell everybody, "buy something as soon as you can, renting is like throwing your money in the toilet," but if I'm left with nothing after renting, what exactly are my parents left with?

Posted on: 2009/1/26 9:40
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Re: A Case Study in What's wrong with JC Real Estate:
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Now, for Paulus Hook, you think to yourself, "$450k, that's not so bad, I could put $90k down (20%) take out a mortgage for $360k at 5% and my payments would only be $1932/mo!" Wow, housing really *is* becoming affordable... Not so fast! Taxes a little under $9k/yr so add on another $750/mo and monthly maintenance is another $650/mo. The good news is that for all that you do get a parking space (Awesome!), bad news is, you have to pay maintenance for the parking space (not so awesome).

So add it all up and your monthly cost to own this place is around $3,400+/mo. And now for the really bad news, another 2br place about a block away which admittedly is about 300sq feet smaller with a direct view of the statue of liberty just rented for $2150/mo.


numbers like these are simply staggering.

especially when considering these numbers are based on somebody having $90,000, in cash, to put down on the place. for the avg. person without that kind of money to throw around, your monthly payment approaches $4,000 a month.

i simply don't understand buying sometimes.

Posted on: 2009/1/26 5:48
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Re: Unleashed Mastiffs Attack JC Man Downtown this Morning
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3 days, 136 replies.

it never ceases to amaze me how much people can post about dog attacks, and rehash the same exact points and opinions every time.

i can't imagine the number of posts the next Pitbull attack will result in.

Posted on: 2009/1/22 18:06
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Re: Unleashed Mastiffs Attack JC Man Downtown this Morning
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Birds fly, fish swim and dogs WALK!!


People walk too.......

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great post. my dog is usually exhausted after a half hour to 45 minute walk, though we are usually out longer if it's not too cold out for him. the more i walk him, the more excited he is to go out on a daily basis, and the more relaxed he is around the apartment.


.......and people are generally more relaxed and calm when they exercise.

maybe this can be applied to the JC residents. with all the crime going on every day, maybe there would be less of it if everyone went on 45 minute walks every day like dogs.

assuming they didn't try and mug or shoot anybody during that walk.

did I read "200lb. mastiff" a few posts back? omg. that's enormous.

Posted on: 2009/1/21 11:02
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Re: Unleashed Mastiffs Attack JC Man Downtown this Morning
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3...2...1... GO (this is not to dismiss the importance of the leash convo, of course. it's just to underscore that it has been debated again and again but nothing ever seems to change)


basically.

damn it.......it seems like every week now I've been agreeing with Mayla....

Posted on: 2009/1/20 7:55
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Re: 1 family, 4.6 million
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I would normally avoid making a mass socio-economic generalization, but if you spend over $4 million on your home, chances are you don't shop vintage or eat at Abbey's or play trivia at The Lamp Post.


not a generalization at all.

someone with millions to blow on a bad investment has much MORE money to blow, hence, no use for the surrounding JC commodities.

Posted on: 2009/1/12 17:44
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Re: 1 family, 4.6 million
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Why would anyone with $4M to spend want to live in Jersey City, on Newark Ave. no less?


yeah, Newark Ave........hurtin'.

but i guess for some rich person looking for a place to live, off beat, outside of NYC.......nahhh, it still doesn't make sense. for that kind of money, you could find a beautiful place in some quiet neighborhood of manhattan, and have less of a chance of getting stabbed.

Posted on: 2009/1/12 14:20
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Re: Downtown: Holdup at Marin Blvd. grocery by 2 men in ski masks
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What bull. There is no leadership coming from City Hall and none from the PD. The citizens are essentially on their own. Where are the police?


The city, in the end, doesn't have to fight the crime problem because:

they will keep building apt. complexes......and renting them.

continue to build condos........and sell them.

continue to sell houses..........

corrupt city, corrupt government......get used to it.

just today, i read about how Croft's car got its window smashed in. i'm sure she knows of other people that had the same thing happen to them. My roommate's car was stolen 3 months after we had moved to JC. I'm also sure that whoever is reading this has either been a victim of crime in this city, or knows at least one person who has. and if you are one of the lucky ones that haven't been a victim of crime yet, if you continue to live here, chances are, you eventually will.

people want to live near NYC in a diverse community....muggings, murders, beatings, robberies or not, they will keep coming here. so the city invests their money elsewhere.

Posted on: 2009/1/8 10:55
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Re: My car was broken into on Summit Ave between Journal and McGinley Squares
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that really sucks croft.

i hope the scum-tooth that did that to your car does in fact get sent to hell and is forced to repair car windows for all eternity.

crime in JC is absolutely out of control. it seems as though if you decide to live in JC for an extended period of time, your turn eventually comes to get your car damaged/robbed/stolen.

when i first moved to JC, my roommate's car was stolen during our third month in our apt.

Posted on: 2009/1/8 6:17
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Re: Property taxes/maintenance fees for condos/townhouses in JC?
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yeah, i mean, i guess it's the plan of many people in America. Go-Go-Go for the first 20 years of your career, and then maybe when you will have made your first million, you can slow things down, and buy a house for cash somewhere quiet, and inexpensive.

t'would be nice

in my opinion, most people are making far too much money and racked up too much debt after 20 years to get out, so they just keep on going and retire in their big overpriced house in the Jersey suburbs.

Posted on: 2009/1/6 19:20
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Re: Property taxes/maintenance fees for condos/townhouses in JC?
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jadedjc wrote:

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Whenever I entertain that question and the fantasy of moving to another part of the U.S., I realize I'm stuck here because this is where all the companies and stable, decent-paying jobs are clustered in my industry. I'm sure that's the case for many professions (and is a main contributor to the high cost of living around here).


i understand, but i think it is, in some way, a bit of smoke and mirrors.

people grow up in the tri-state area, their families are there, friends, they went to school there, you have NYC, and it just seems like the place to be. and it is regarding jobs, entertainment, but it all comes with a price as we all know, and a heavy one at that.

i'm a firm believer that if you are successful in one field, you can be successful in another, and if you are willing to work on going into another profession, in a part of the country that is far cheaper than the tri-state, you can most certainly do it. like anything else, it's a choice.

you swallow the paycut at first and then sober yourself up by looking at your bills being half as much.

again, a mortgage of $400,000 vs. $150,000, after factoring in interest over 30 years on top of the obscene property taxes in the tri-state, it's not a $250,000 difference, but a difference in the millions over a lifetime.

if you lived somewhere else in America with a lower paying job, over a lifetime, would you make MILLIONS less..........?

i honestly don't know, i've never lived outside of the tri-state, am far too young to talk real estate experience really, and still rent an apt., but when i run home ownership calculations in New Jersey over 30 years and i take a look at the amount of money being spent.......it just seems like throwing your money down the toilet all while the lenders are laughing.....well......all the way to the bank.

Posted on: 2009/1/6 15:52
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Re: Property taxes/maintenance fees for condos/townhouses in JC?
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I recently bought a new construction condo which is in our price range and I am paying about $450 for maintenance and 6000 for taxes.


it's simply amazing how expensive it is to own in NJ.

a condo, which has little to no property, paying $6000 a year in taxes. unbelievable. especially in a city that is completely immersed in crime.

i was checking out condos in Charlotte/Raleigh NC, you can buy a condo around 1400 sq. ft., garage, a nice little backyard, for $150,000. property taxes: $1300 a year.

i'm really starting to just not understand NJ living unless you're making serious dough.

Posted on: 2009/1/6 8:15
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Re: A tax-free reimbursement of $240 per year - just for riding your bike to work?
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The Wicycle. that's precious.

i find it funny how the commentator says, "So, why is it that you're not selling 5,000 of these things a day?"

how about the fact that a battery on full charge only has a traveling capability of 8 miles. this guy says you can go to work, do your errands in town.......who lives 4 miles or less from work.

again, i like the green idea, i really do, and as an avid runner (and mountain biker when i have the chance) i would love to ride my bike all over the place, even to and from work, but so many of these green ideas are soooooo not practical yet for 99% of the population.

Posted on: 2009/1/5 14:31
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Re: A tax-free reimbursement of $240 per year - just for riding your bike to work?
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Sweet! Now if only there were a direct way to get to NYC from Jersey City by bike...


this tax break thing could work......sometimes.........as long as you live in a warm state......like California.

as far as the rest of the country, most states are not warm year round, making bike commuting irrational for most people. most people need a car for other things other than getting to and from work, like lugging groceries, family trips, vacations, etc. etc., and to own a car, make payments on it, not to mention having to keep it insured all year round.....it just doesn't make sense to own the car and not use it.

in my opinion, the bike thing is a good thing, but it's so selective. there are very few people that can realistically do it, and the American infrastructure is just not designed for it, even in it's most important cities.

i think we'll all be driving electric cars before they put in bike routes everywhere.

Posted on: 2009/1/5 6:11
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Re: JC Pepper Spray Laws
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i agree.

if i was threatened, the last thing i would be thinking is, "is this going to be legal?"

i'd rather get a fine or whatever other slap on the hand involved with using pepper spray than getting beaten to the ground by a group of would-be attackers.

Posted on: 2009/1/4 13:32
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Re: Jersey City murder count inched up to 25 in 2008
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irrelevant of the murder count, there were so many shootings this year, people getting injured but not killed, shot at but not hit, etc., that it could just be a matter of shooters with bad aim this year.

Posted on: 2009/1/4 9:41
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Re: JC Math Teacher/Coach Arrested for "Relationship" with 16 Year Old
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this is becoming quite the common occurrence lately. one has to wonder just how many other times it has happened but the two just didn't get caught.

Posted on: 2008/12/29 6:08
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Re: places to go running/jogging?
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Does anyone know of an indoor running track around Jersey City? I know there is one at Chelsea Piers, but I'd rather go to one in Jersey (so I can drive). I am preparing to run a marathon and need to run 20 miles and do not want to do it on a treadmill. Thanks in advance.



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go running outside!!!


yeah!

i am kind of wondering that myself.

also, i would strongly advise you to not run 20 miles on a track, it's a great way to get an injury. running in circles over and over and over again for that long a distance can cause inflammation to your outside leg, so if you're running counterclockwise, your right leg. if you're already that far along in your training that you're coming up on a 20 miler, you don't want to give yourself a nagging pain for race day. by mile 22 on race day, the nagging pain will be a colossal pain.

plus, if it's an indoor track, it's probably going to be shorter than a standard 400M track, meaning even more revolutions.

if i may ask.......you're looking to kick 20 soon? are you running a winter marathon, or going somewhere warm soon to run it? if it is in fact a cold weather marathon, i would strongly advise you to run outside in the cold air, it will only better prepare you for the race. if it happens to be super cold on your long day, you could always wait till 12:00-1:00 o' clock so that you run through the warmest part of the day.

just sayin'.

Posted on: 2008/12/23 10:00
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