$750k would have been a stretch for our price range 9 months ago but we found that most of the houses in Rutherford we were looking at not far from that price had either big ticket issues or would have been death by a lot thousand cuts to fix up - just a symptom of the old houses there. We ended up in Nutley, and are quite happy with the house and town, we found the houses here were more affordable. If things were more equal though, we would have ended up in Rutherford - 100%.