View Single Post
 
Old 08-05-2018, 12:08 PM
Abby10 Abby10 is offline
Sage
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 6,437
Thanks: 1
Thanked 1,208 Times in 1,172 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by tomwed View Post
Sinatra is from Hoboken. So is my mother's side of the family. My great aunt used to babysit "Old Blue Eyes." People ended up in Hoboken because they landed on Ellis Island, a stones throw away and had nothing but a suitcase. When "we" got a few bucks together we moved to Jersey City. With gentrification the rents have jumped way up. And if you can't afford Jersey City you surely can't afford Hoboken.
That's a cool connection you have there to Sinatra, tomwed.

And you're NOTHING but right about the cost of living in that part of New Jersey. My son would love to get a job up that way so he could be closer to NYC, but he knows he would never be able to afford it without the additional income he makes on rentals plus his job.