Originally from northern NJ and currently living there again. Have lived in Georgia and Texas as well. The town here is about 25-30 miles from NYC and was home for a while to Richard Nixon. He and his daughter Tricia used to hand out pen and pencil sets to Halloween kids when they came to his home and he answered.
Mystery author Mary Higgins Clark and actor Danny Aiello also live here, as have Ben Vereen and Russell Simmons (who have now moved away.) It's a small town, but rural in character with lots of wildlife to see in my backyard - white tails, rabbits, coyotes, red fox and lots of song birds. It's tranquil, but not as quiet as it used to be when I was growing up and the town was just 800 population. More like Beverly Hills East now, with gated mansions and the endless noise of lawn maintenance crews and construction projects for additions to the "castles."
And that is probably the reason why I may move from here - the loss of piece and quiet and the rise of the "McMansion" and all that's associated with it." (My own preference would be to have more land instead of having to talk to my wife via intercom as she sits at the other end of the dining room table. HA!) Home was built by my father in 1951.
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