To live directly across from Manhattan on the
Hudson River Goldcoast look into:

 Hudson County

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.