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> I chuckled myself. Tourists spending thousands to visit the city aren't going to stay 2 hours away in another crap apartment in Jersey.

Isn't new jersey right across the river from new york, with rapid transit lines going into new york? Your "2 hours" estimate seems wildly inflated.

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Yes it is. In fact, it's probably cheaper/easier to park in JC and take the PATH into NYC.

> Isn't new jersey right across the river from new york, with rapid transit lines going into new york?

In Chongqing, map apps will often recommend a "nearby" restaurant which actually is several hundred meters away, vertically; you'll have to descend many stair steps before arriving at that restaurant, even though it looked so close on the map. In other words, the restaurant was not actually "close", when it comes to the time and energy investment required.

In this same spirit, New Jersey is absolutely not "close" to Manhattan, even if it looks close on maps. Traffic sucks, public transportation sucks, bridges and tunnels suck.

The PATH is pretty good as long as you can stand a few minutes without internet and aren’t staying up until 4am. It used to be regularly late and require a different subway card which was annoying, but those issues have been fixed. The cars and stations are also typically cleaner and less crowded than the nyc subways.

Staying in Jersey City or Hoboken could definitely be an option for people who don’t need to be stumbling distance from bars.

jersey city took care of this years ago, like 70% of voters passed a bill regulating airbnbs. [0]

any rentals less than 30 days are not allowed unless it’s a room in your house, that you live in, and you have to be there, present, while the guests are there.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/nyregion/airbnb-jersey-ci...

How much did rents drop by after this?

There's many other places in northern New Jersey that are less than 1 hour away from Manhattan by bus too.

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