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⌈ Secret Post #3224 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Apartment Help

[shortysc22]

I'm in NJ but haven't really apartment hunted in low end areas.

Housing close to colleges? What school are you looking at?

I can help with the NJ side of it because I know people here, but I avoid apartment hunting in the city, not worth the headache for me. In this area, you're not going to find apartments at a low end budget with a lot of amenities, they're going to be basic and tiny. You'll find that pretty much any new construction is going to be high end, so you'll find a lot of older apartments.

For mass transit, they'll be in either Newark or Jersey City if they're in NJ.

Re: Apartment Help

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have any schools in mind but I was thinking that they might find some affordable apartments close to a college. The apartment's for the college-aged kid but he's not actually at a college. I just thought he might feel at home at an apartment complex with people about his age, and it's possible (depending on the school) that there might be more security to make the old guy feel better about the kid living in a college-connected apartment complex.

(In the movie, the kid was living in Camden but I don't think he really has any attachment to anywhere. He works from home so it can be anywhere he can do that. He's dirt poor and so the tiny/basic/old building was what I was thinking, so that's good to know. The old guy lives in NY.)

Do you have a price range for the area? I'm not sure Zillow would list the dumps that they're going to look at. Are there any glaring mistakes people make about the NJ area that you see in fics?

Re: Apartment Help

[shortysc22]

Around here, you're not going to find really cheap apartments just because they're near a college because most of the big schools happen to also be in nice areas (Rutgers-New Brunswick, Stevens-Hoboken, Montclair)

Camden is a shithole and about two hours from NY. No one who wants to be in NY will be anywhere near Camden. You're better off looking Camden/Philly than NYC/NJ.

Are you looking for two bedroom? One bedroom? Studio? Those are the major apartment options in the area. College town (young hipsters) would be Hoboken, but rents are expensive. A little bit further out would be Harrison and reasonable rents.

Shithole cities in Northern NJ? Newark or Irvington.

Re: Apartment Help

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks! Looks like the college-thing won't work (that's what's around where I live so that's good to know).

I think Studio or one bedroom would probably work best. The kid in the story doesn't have much money and is probably fine living in a shitty place since he seemed fine in Camden in the beginning of the movie (he's an off-the-grid type and probably not a hipster). The older guy would want him to move somewhere safe so if I were to have the kid looking in Camden, Newark, Irvington, and the old guy suggesting Hoboken/Harrison, would that get that across? Or are the rents too different and the old guy would come off as tone deaf to the kid's poorness?

(Thanks for the perspective, this is really helpful.)

Re: Apartment Help

[shortysc22]

I think the old guy might be better off suggesting Harrison/Jersey City. Hoboken is probably priced out of their range a bit. Jersey City varies considerably in neighborhoods, some are expensive and some are cheap and dangerous.

Can I ask what movie this is? Now I'm curious what movie features Camden in any light. Again, Camden is far from NYC, relative to the other areas, so that might another point between the two of them.

I'm assuming you're looking more city/walkable areas as opposed to just surburban towns that might often garden apartments.

Re: Apartment Help

[(Anonymous)]

Die Hard 4
The kid's apartment in Camden is blown up in the opening action scene. The old guy is a NY police detective but they don't say where exactly (at least I don't remember it) so I'm wondering where to put his house too.

I'm basically looking for shitty apartments that they end up rejecting. They end up only finding one apartment in the end but the story is about the host of crappy ones they they have to look at first. I was thinking of apartments like the one in the movie, which looked very urban and shitty.

Re: Apartment Help

[shortysc22]

Check Queens or the Bronx for NYC.

If you want something realistc, have them check out an apartment in Newark or Irvington and then find out there was a shooting nearby the next day for a reason to reject that apartment. Mostly Newark. Or Jersey City even. Very believable. Irvington is more either project apartments or typical two family three story homes.