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I find that very hard to believe given the close proximity of NJ to NY. In particular, Newark is literally just across the river from New York City.
by Hypx 8y ago
I find that very hard to believe given the close proximity of NJ to NY. In particular, Newark is literally just across the river from New York City.
- lowercased 8y agoOn top of that, how many people working in NYC actually commute in from NJ? Meaning... they're actually living in NJ in the first place.
- tarboreus 8y agoYou actually are wrong about this. No one here want to work in NJ. Few young people in the city keep cars. People would scratch their heads if you told them you were working out there. Might be just a psychological thing. but it's real. I wouldn't look for jobs in NJ unless they dropped into my lap.
- lowercased 8y agoi was responding to this idea to amazon located in NYC because that's where the engineers/workers are at. If there's actually more in NJ, locating there would have meant those jobs would have just dropped in your lap. But I don't have specific numbers on commuters from NJ, and suspect their decision was based on more than just staff availability.
- philwelch 8y agoWhere do you live and work? I live and work in Seattle, and although I wouldn't rule it out, I would prefer not to cross Lake Washington to work in Bellevue even though it's technically closer to me than certain parts of Seattle that I regularly visit. Boundaries and regional identities have sometimes irrational emotional impacts. Also, NJ is very close to NY by the standards of everywhere in America other than NY. Density and urbanization affect our perceptions of distance: a famous representation of this is "View of the World from 9th Avenue" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...)