To live directly across from Manhattan on the
Hudson River Goldcoast look into:
Bayonne, Jersey City, Hoboken, Guttenberg, North Bergen, Secaucus, Union City, Weehawken and West New York (across from Downtown and Midtown Manhattan up to the Lincoln Tunnel).
or Southern Bergen County - Englewood Cliffs, Fort Lee, Edgewater, and Cliffside Park.
(across from Uptown/Midtown Manhattan (north of the Lincoln Tunnel to the George Washington Bridge).
For New Jersey's more suburban lifestyle, you may want to look into:
- Bergen County - Allendale, Alpine, Bergenfield, Closter, Cresskill, Demarest, Franklin Lakes, Harrington Park, Haworth, Ho-Ho-Kus, Lyndhurst, Montvale, North Arlington, Northvale, Old Tappan, Oradell, Paramus, Ramsey, Ridgewood, Rutherford, Saddle Brook, Saddle River, Tenafly, Westwood, Woodcliff Lake, Wyckoff.
- Essex County - Bloomfield, Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Essex Fells, Glen Ridge, Livingston, Maplewood, Millburn, Montclair, the Caldwells, Nutley, Roseland, Short Hills, South Orange, Upper Montclair, Verona, West Orange.
- Middlesex County - Avenel, Colonia, Edison, Iselin, Metuchen, Middlesex, Old Bridge, Piscataway, Sayreville, South Plainfield, Woodbridge.
- Morris County - Boonton, Chatham, Denville, East Hanover, Florham Park, Gillette, Harding, Lincoln Park, Long Hill, Madison, Mendham, Montville, Morris Plains, Morristown, Mountain Lakes, Parsippany-Troy Hills, Randolph, Riverdale, Rockaway, Whippany.
- Passaic County - Clifton, Haledon, Hawthorne, Little Falls, North Haledon, Pompton Lakes, Totowa, Wayne, Woodland Park.
- Somerset County - Basking Ridge, Bedminster, Bernardsville, Greenbrook, Warren, Watchung.
- Union County - Berkeley Heights, Clark, Cranford, Murray Hill, New Providence, Springfield, Scotch Plains, Summit, Union, Westfield.