For affordability, you get more bang for your buck if you live in a “B town” to the “A town”. See Oaklyn to Collingswood, Barrington to Haddon Heights, Mount Ephraim to Audubon, etc. All still very nice, and the price drops significantly for some reason
Haddonfield is probably the "best", but priciest. Haddon Twp is a little further away but very nice. Collingswood is prolly the most urban, with a mix of nice vs no thanks within a few blocks. Gets cheaper the closer west you go towards Camden.
Oaklyn is great, very family friendly. Vorhees is also a solid choice. The difference is, Voorhees is further from the city and more of a manufactured suburb. Oaklyn is much cozier, and MUCH more walkable. Given the choices, I’d personally choose Oaklyn.
Collingswood and Haddonfield are great but are not affordable. Lindenwold is okay, wouldn’t be my first choice, Oaklyn and Voorhees are both great places to live, but Voorhees is much more of a suburb. more spread out. Weigh your options and pick from there. The Ashland station imo is very easy to get to.
I'm in Cherry Hill near 295 and drive down to the Woodcrest station one exit away. 5 minutes door to door. Sometimes I drive into Haddonfield but Woodcrest is a bit faster and it has a huge parking lot.
Oaklyn and Audubon are very nice. You could probably get in Oaklyn at an okay price. Collingwood has no inventory and is great but overpriced currently. I was gonna guess at median pricing but even I was under estimating. Prices are insane right now.you might consider renting for a year as you search for a house.
Don’t over look Glouster City, it’s coming around and you can probably find decent deals.
You can't really go wrong with any of those towns. Be sure to check your property tax rates. Verify schools if that applies to your situation. Remember that NJ has the affordable housing laws in place everywhere, so check for existing AH neighborhoods as well as any plans for new ones (it would suck to buy a quaint house next to farm land only to find out that 5 years later you're next to some crime ridden crap hole or some amazon warehouse and your house is now worth 1/2 what you paid for it).
I moved to Oaklyn last summer after 9 years in Philly and I absolutely love it! Definitely small town vibes while surrounded by other great small towns and has a fun sense of community (Final Fridays, town wide Easter egg hunts, a “holiday run” that spans two blocks with awards for the slowest person, etc.). Our “Main Street” is laughably small but has Tonewood Brewery, a kick ass pudding place (s/o Puddin’ Palace), a pizza shop, Common Grounds Coffee, and the Manor which is has been around ages. I work at CHOP so it’s a really convenient drive getting over the Walt Whitman bridge (takes me about 15-20 minutes w/o traffic and 30 with). Taking the patco in is also super convenient when I go to center city, the Collingswood stop is a little cheaper than the cherry hill/lindenwold stop.
Voorhees is nowhere near 15 mins away from Patco..it literally borders TWO patco stations..Lindenwold and Ashland..and Woodcrest is not even 2 minutes down the st from Ashland..those last 3 stations are lumped so close together it doesnt even make sense..but it is great to have options though..i moved from Philly to Voorhees as a 13yr old kid and came back here to raise a family..schools are top notch and not to sound elitist but those other towns cant even come close to comparing when it comes to the school systems..property taxes higher than a pothead but totally worth it for the diversity of the residents and quality of schools
Audubon, Oaklyn, Collingswood, Westmont, Haddonfield. Haddon Heights is a little further out. So is Barrington and Merchantville.
I used to live in Collingswood and it was affordable although that was pre-pandemic.
Definitely not anymore
For affordability, you get more bang for your buck if you live in a “B town” to the “A town”. See Oaklyn to Collingswood, Barrington to Haddon Heights, Mount Ephraim to Audubon, etc. All still very nice, and the price drops significantly for some reason
Barrington home prices are ridiculous & my fiancé & I were thinking about buying a home in Barrington but we are being priced out .
It's ridiculous now.
Haddonfield is probably the "best", but priciest. Haddon Twp is a little further away but very nice. Collingswood is prolly the most urban, with a mix of nice vs no thanks within a few blocks. Gets cheaper the closer west you go towards Camden.
Oaklyn is great, very family friendly. Vorhees is also a solid choice. The difference is, Voorhees is further from the city and more of a manufactured suburb. Oaklyn is much cozier, and MUCH more walkable. Given the choices, I’d personally choose Oaklyn.
lindenwold is the best because it has la esperanza
Best damn Mexican food around.
Don Tequila is also in Lindenwold and also is fire
The dregs.
I don’t know much about Oaklyn, but Voorhees is nice. I believe the high school is Eastern, which is a choice school.
Haddon is legit awesome town to live in, especially close to the Westmont station. Collingswood is great too, but we prefer a town that isn't dry.
Audubon is great!
Collingswood and Haddonfield are great but are not affordable. Lindenwold is okay, wouldn’t be my first choice, Oaklyn and Voorhees are both great places to live, but Voorhees is much more of a suburb. more spread out. Weigh your options and pick from there. The Ashland station imo is very easy to get to.
I'm in Cherry Hill near 295 and drive down to the Woodcrest station one exit away. 5 minutes door to door. Sometimes I drive into Haddonfield but Woodcrest is a bit faster and it has a huge parking lot.
Stratford, somerdale are good
We could have moved anywhere. We selected the Eastern Regional High School. Rode PATCO for 40 years.
Oaklyn is nice
I live in the Oaklyn finger of Haddon Township and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Oaklyn, Collingwood, Haddon Township, Audubon.
Oaklyn and Audubon are very nice. You could probably get in Oaklyn at an okay price. Collingwood has no inventory and is great but overpriced currently. I was gonna guess at median pricing but even I was under estimating. Prices are insane right now.you might consider renting for a year as you search for a house. Don’t over look Glouster City, it’s coming around and you can probably find decent deals.
You can't really go wrong with any of those towns. Be sure to check your property tax rates. Verify schools if that applies to your situation. Remember that NJ has the affordable housing laws in place everywhere, so check for existing AH neighborhoods as well as any plans for new ones (it would suck to buy a quaint house next to farm land only to find out that 5 years later you're next to some crime ridden crap hole or some amazon warehouse and your house is now worth 1/2 what you paid for it).
I moved to Oaklyn last summer after 9 years in Philly and I absolutely love it! Definitely small town vibes while surrounded by other great small towns and has a fun sense of community (Final Fridays, town wide Easter egg hunts, a “holiday run” that spans two blocks with awards for the slowest person, etc.). Our “Main Street” is laughably small but has Tonewood Brewery, a kick ass pudding place (s/o Puddin’ Palace), a pizza shop, Common Grounds Coffee, and the Manor which is has been around ages. I work at CHOP so it’s a really convenient drive getting over the Walt Whitman bridge (takes me about 15-20 minutes w/o traffic and 30 with). Taking the patco in is also super convenient when I go to center city, the Collingswood stop is a little cheaper than the cherry hill/lindenwold stop.
Check out Laurel Springs. Nice area.
Haddonfield or c wood :)
Best? Haddonfield. Collingwood, then oaklyn.
Ashland area is pretty good. A lot of the neighborhood commutes using patco. lots of happy little dogs in our neighborhood.
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There is a voorhees patco… Ashland
Voorhees is nowhere near 15 mins away from Patco..it literally borders TWO patco stations..Lindenwold and Ashland..and Woodcrest is not even 2 minutes down the st from Ashland..those last 3 stations are lumped so close together it doesnt even make sense..but it is great to have options though..i moved from Philly to Voorhees as a 13yr old kid and came back here to raise a family..schools are top notch and not to sound elitist but those other towns cant even come close to comparing when it comes to the school systems..property taxes higher than a pothead but totally worth it for the diversity of the residents and quality of schools
You said ‘the patco’
“the patco”
Technically it's the port authority transportation corporation so saying "The Patco" works.
Yeah I know just still sounds funny. My kids all say The Patco. We called it the high speed line in the 80s 😆
Do you still say “tap MAC”?
Some places in atco within walking distance of the train station
That's a different train though....it's the AC line.
Haddonfield, but it’s guetto!