"On moving day, don't forget to pack your gloating attitude.

All the best to you".

PBW, Im not gloating just happy as hell
All the best to you as well. Cheers

Heights..Yes I will only be paying a little over $200 a year in prop taxes!!!
It will be for 25 years. the taxes are structured so that on the 20th year, taxes will start to rise incrementally at a rate of 5% percent per year, until the taxes mature. This works out amazingly for me since I probably will not be there for that long anyhow.
It was a great deal and I worked sooo hard to find it. I will admit however, that I did pay more for my unit than I would have paid in JC for a similar unit, but the services in Prospect Heights and BK as a whole are unmatched.

I will now be able to walk to great restaurants headed by creative chefs. Not to mention that I will have access to cheap but good food. Trader Joes (on Atlantic Ave) is a 15 walk from my new place!!! Countless boutiques. Brooklyn Flea that takes place on weekends. Soul Summit Music Festival in Fort Greene park during the summer months, the list goes on and on.

Slacky your right....
I'll never ever ever be happy in JERSEY CITY
now I have done something about it
Thank You

I_heart_JC....
PLEASE like your paying significantly less in Prop txs
Surely not in this town

thanks Robustus. the numbers just work out better for me back home. Originally thought I would give JC a go and I did for 5 years, now I realize that it aint for me. This place has great potential that for some odd reason is not being realized. I've spent alot of time in downtown too but it just doesnt cut it for me from an entertainment, food, interesting things to do and streetlife sense. To me there is no real palpable energy in this town and I guess Im at a point where I am demanding more out of my city.
Shouldn't have to jump on the Path train everytime I want to do something interesting and really fun, (its annoying). I'd like to walk out of my door, or take a 10-15 minute walk for that. I know JC will get to that point (hopefully) some day but Im just not willing to wait the 10-15 years it will probably take.

Its been a great few of years here in Jersey (5yrs) total but I will gladly be heading back home to Brooklyn in a few months. Sold my place and bought a larger place in Propsect Heights. Great neighborhood with a multitude of great restaurants, Prospect Park 9 blocks away (which has plenty of shade trees), beautiful brownstones for blocks and blocks that Downtown JC cant even hold a match to.
My taxes here in JC for an 850sf 1 bed, 1bath are almost 5K a year, (ridiculous), my new abated taxes in BK will be $17 per month for 25 years. NY does abatements the way abatements should be done, not this stupid ass payment in lieu taxes crap which are property taxes by another name. So HAPPY, will never, ever, ever return to NJ to live.

Thanks so much Erica. Yes There is absolutely no reason JC cant have fun/eclectic, creative restaurants. Proximity to Manhattan should not be used as a crutch in the excuse of " Oh but NYC is so close". Countless neighborhoods in the boroughs have great little places and in a lot of parts of Brooklyn for instance you dont even need to go into the city for great food. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill neighborhoods all come to mind.

"There's more to JC then Downtown....step out the bubble."
Thank You DragonXJC

It seems to me more often than no that some Downtowners are so Downtown exclusive and dont know much about the rest of JC. There is a lot outside of Downtown, maybe not to the specific tastes of some like chic type of stuff. Get out, explore a little. Im from Sunset Park/Park Slope originally and had no qualms about going to Downtown Brooklyn, Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, etc for a cool restaurant as many brooklyners do.