Jaw22, if you move to Alaska, you can’t complain about the cold, as it’s a conscious decision. If you move to Cambridge, Massachusetts, you can’t complain about the outsize influence that Harvard and MIT have on the area. There are many townships in New Jersey with frum communities (Edison/Highland Park, Teaneck, Passaic, Cherry Hill, etc). If you decide to pick Lakewood, then you are picking a town dominated by a 6,000+ member yeshiva, and where many residents are current or former members of the yeshiva. BMG’s influence comes with living in Lakewood. Lakewood is a thriving Jewish community ONLY because of the yeshiva. If you don’t like it, there are many other townships and cities in New Jersey who would love it if frum people moved in. But Lakewood is BMG territory. If you don’t like it, live elsewhere.
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