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Originally Posted by park123
But it's hard for me to think of it as a real peer urban experience to SF or Boston or DC. I like Jersey City and Hoboken (they are walkable to each other and might as well be the same city). But the commercial/retail areas are quite small compared to "real cities" like Boston or SF. A lot of the fun and work is outsourced to Manhattan.
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Well, that's because they
aren't their own cities - they're suburbs of New York. Functionally, they're pretty much just as much a part of the city as Brooklyn or Queens are (just with poorer transit connections).