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Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by vonmoltke on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @08:37PM (#18403778)
> Within huge portions of nearby suburbs, you can buy a sizable 3+ bedroom house for <400k in a town with a train stop and a good school district that takes you directly to the office.

A train which sometimes get you there in 45 minutes, sometimes in 60 minutes, sometimes gets cancelled because of (Amtrak signal problems | disabled Amtrak equipment in the Hudson tunnel | overhead wire damage | $ PROBLEM_OF_THE_DAY).

He says while crammed in to an NJTransit train.

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Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by PLenz on Thursday November 08, 2018 @10:16AM (#18406772)
NJT is a mess but Metro North is pretty great. I walk to the train and then walk GCT to our office on Park. I grew up in Queens and my commute to Manhattan is shorter now when I live 30 miles outside the city. But I also pay for that with Westchester taxes.
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Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by zjaffee on Thursday November 08, 2018 @01:49PM (#18408781)
This is absolutely true, from what I've been hearing NJ transit has just been getting worse and worse since I had used it on a daily basis.
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Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by vonmoltke on Thursday November 08, 2018 @04:02PM (#18409996)
It has been going slowly downhill since I moved here two years ago. I'm glad I don't have to go into Penn any longer. Hoboken has its own problems, but at least the NJT cancellations are rare and the trains usually get there within 5 minutes of when they are supposed to.
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