Hoboken. But I really can't recommend a commute from Brooklyn or Queens. Find a job in the city. Is there really any benefit in coming to NJ for work?

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Why would you move to Brooklyn or Queens if you are looking for a job in NJ? That is an absolutely horrible commute. Find the job first and then decide where to live. Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark are the cities with the most abundant public transit.

If you live in NY and work in NJ you will pay too much for housing.

If you MUST be in NY be really careful what Queens neighborhood you move to as a bunch aren't super accessible to public transit.

>Brooklyn or Queens

It cant be done

Put your destination in google maps. Click an origin. Push the train button. See what it says. Repeat as needed.

As all the others have said, its a shitty commute to most places in NJ, and unless your job is in Newark or JC, the chances of you being able to take mass transit door to door is virtually nil. At the minimum you are already looking at 2-3 connections, and a long ass ride as is even if you did work in JC\Newark.

If you work in NJ, the only benefit of living in the city is, well, you live in the city. If you are already living in the city, there are tons of jobs available to you within the city that will be a very easy commute.

Also where you live in brooklyn or queens matters. There are places 10 minutes to manhattan with a subway right outside your door, and places in the far boonies which are like hour rides into the city.

Do you already have a job that may require you to work in NJ or are your looking for a job in NJ? If the former, don't go to Brooklyn or Queens. Your commute will be a long, long nightmare. Hell, I wouldn't even recommend the East Side of Manhattan b/c you'll have to transfer somewhere. If you are looking for work, then look where you want to live. Brooklyn and Queens are going to have thousands of nursing jobs available and you'll be so much happier not commuting for four hours a day.

Ooph, listen to the crowd and don't do this. Unless your job is in Hoboken or JC, your commute will suck your soul...especially if you're working 12s in a hospital...

If your planning on working in Nj, moving to Brooklyn or Queens is, to put it bluntly, a really stupid fucking idea. It’s one of the worst ideas you could have. I’m not even going to waste your time trying to give you ways to do that commute, because no one does it if they have a choice. You couldn’t pick a worse place to live if you plan on working in Nj. May I ask what makes you think this is a good idea? Do you not understand that this will likely be a 2 hour commute each way?

It’s been 11hrs and OP hasn’t responded. This is as hopeless as OP’s previous research

I'm doing a nursing residency and my license will transfer to NJ immediately but not to NYC. I'm planning on completing my residency and applying for a license by endorsement down the road. Thanks for the advice, that's helpful.

12 hour shift at hospital + sleep but I'll definitely tell my patients i need to respond to some reddit comments and they'll have to wait next time.

It's a little in the weeds to explain, but I'm about to become an RN and will be licensed in Texas. Texas nursing licenses transfer automatically to NJ and 27 other US states, but NY is not one of them. I can become a nurse in NYC by attaining residency, which will take a year. Most NYC hospitals won't even consider applications from out of state new nurses.

I plan on working in NYC long term and my BF's job is in NYC, but for my first year or so I think it makes the most sense to commute.

My Google maps route planning absolutely did not say that, it seemed very doable, like 30 minutes each way, hence why I asked for advice here

Yeah, you’d be much better off looking at places like Jersey City, Hoboken etc. You’ll be closer to Manhattan from those places than in Queens anyway.

There's no way that can be done in 30 minutes.