Maggie’s espresso is good, lots of yummy take away options - not sure if that’s down town enough though

My friends come. My place is way bigger than there’s so we tend to have all the get togethers at mine. I think JC/Hoboken by the path is not the same as jersey suburbs. I don’t go to the jersey suburbs.

NYC city tax is between 3-3.8% depending on your tax bracket, if you make 250k it’s about 10k a year, not 10k in extra income, like 10k after tax.

We moved to Hoboken and then to JC without ever spending any time in either before moving, coming from the west village. Chose jersey over Brooklyn because (depending on where you are) it’s definitely way cleaner and way less crowded and much closer to where we like to hang out in the city (west side down town), plus tax savings. Ultimately we decided if we weren’t going to be in Manhattan we might as well be in Hoboken/JC so we can take advantage of some of the benefits of not being in the city.

I’d say do it - we’ve never regretted it and disagree with the earlier comment - JC and BK are not the same, but I guess depends where in JC and where in BK.