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Posted 1 year ago #
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I am from Passaic and it is a very nice community. it is not very materialistic and the people for the most part are Frum people who are always working on themselves. People call Passaic the "Out of Town In town."
I am going to probably surprise most of you but here are some facts about passaic.
1. There are Three Elementary schools
One is the Regular Yeshivish Type of school together in the boys, girls and preschool there are about 2,000 students in three different buildings. (the girls and boys schools are on two different parts of town.
there is also Hillel which is a more main stream smaller yeshiva.
and there is a cheder which is also small.
2.There are two Misivtas in town and a Beis Yaacov
3. There are over 15 shuls
There are YU shuls (and they are very Frum)
and there are very yishivisha places
4. There is a Yeshiva Gadola under Rav Meir Stern
5. There are Full time Kolles
6.There are Pizza bagel stores as well as restaurants under the local Vad.
7. We are only Seven Miles from the city
This means with out traffic it can take fifteen minutes.
8.All of passaic is close and walkable
there is buses into the city
9. there are parks
10. There is a lot of shopping within five minutes drive
(Target, Shoprite, cosco,staples,barnsandnobeles sports authority, stop and shop, Acme, These are just to name a few.
11.With in fifteen minutes you will be in NEW YORK, Teaneck, Numerous malls.
12. Within Thirty Minutes you will be in Monsey, West Orange, Elizabith, Linden, Edison.
14. There are many many Gamachim and other Chessed Opportunity's in passaic
These are just a few things off the top of my head
I know there is some type of chabad but i don't know the extant.
Also the people in passaic are very nice.Posted 1 year ago # -
i second your opinion that people in passaic are very nice.
GO PASSAICPosted 1 year ago # -
How about Newark?
Posted 1 year ago # -
to: yentingyenta
I assume your also from Passaic/Clifton?Posted 1 year ago # -
yup. love it here!!!! wouldn't live anywhere else.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Cleveland is a SUPER-nice community! Midwestern values, and housing is unbelievably affordable. The only drawback is winter. Cleveland has nice museums including the Great Lakes Science Center (which is better than Liberty Science Center in NJ IMO)and the Children's Museum, both places my family has really enjoyed going to.
They also have a world-class symphony orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, Severance Hall is easy to get to, and it's only $10-15 to park. They have a summer concert series in a beautiful national park only 30 miles southeast of Cleveland. There is a ski resort near there with skiing and snowboarding.
Passaic is nice but may not be out-of-town enough for some - lots of transplanted Brooklynites, and horrific east coast prices (even now with prices depressed).
Posted 1 year ago # -
one note on Cleveland winters: in the "heights" (Cleveland heights) people rarely shovel and the city does not put down salt. i went there for seminary, and imagine walking on a thick sheet of ice that is the road. not a fun situation. Cleveland is a place for people who tolerate the cold really well.
a plus side of Cleveland is that the housing is not as expensive, the people are really nice and friendly, and the schools there excellent.
wanderingchana: you left out one beautiful feature. lake erie is very nice, but it also gives cleveland alot of lade effect snow.
Posted 1 year ago # -
The problem with moving out of the NY Metro Area is that salaries are generally far lower in other frum communities (as a general rule.)
Posted 1 year ago # -
Indeed :) Although Geauga County gets the brunt of the lake effect snow, anything north of Mansfield gets pounded every winter.
Also, Telshe is in Wickliffe, which is in driving but not walking distance to the Cleveland Jewish community.
I don't know about Hebrew Academy, but I know families from outside Cleveland who send/have sent their girls to Yavneh (which is 7-12). They have a very nice, fairly new building. I have heard it has a swimming pool.
I would move there myself it it weren't for winter (and parnassa) :)
Posted 1 year ago # -
Bed-Stuy: True, but if you don't have to pay for east coast housing etc., you don't need as high of a salary.
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