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  • #596428
    Ofcourse
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    If you could live anywhere in the USA, where would you live and why? (No Israel isnt an option here). 😉

    #890952
    shlishi
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    Brooklyn, New York.

    #890953
    bpt
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    Tannersville, NY (12 months a year)

    #890954
    A23
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    Flatbush, Brooklyn.

    #890955

    Outside of Brooklyn, but in NY.

    #890956
    HIE
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    flatbush, IT ROCKS DA HOUSE!!! tremendous jewish community, and all types of frum yidden yeshivish, chasidish, litvish, modern, sefardi and city life

    #890957
    GumBall
    Member

    florida……

    #890958
    yossi z.
    Member

    I would like to live in far rockaway/five towns or Providence Rhode Island.

    But those are my second and third choices respectively

    😀 Zuberman! 😀

    #890959
    LemonySnicket
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    Away from the concrete jungles of Brooklyn. Ireland or Scotland. 2 beautiful lands of green.

    #890960
    GumBall
    Member

    Wait aside 4 Florida I also want to live in Switzerland,Amsterdam,Paris,EY,LA,And a lot of other places i just cant think of them now!! LOL

    #890961
    smartcookie
    Member

    Gotta visit every single place first, then I can let ya know!

    #890962

    in the VERY OOT community where my parents live, but my husband wants to go into chinuch and there are no positions in the one school there now. What do you think? Go into business to live near family or go into chinuch to help klal yisrael? I want to live near my MOMMY!!!! It’s NOT fair!

    #890963
    LuvMe
    Member

    two letters – L.A.!!!!!

    #890964
    Shrek
    Participant

    woodmere. near aish kodesh.

    #890965
    Ofcourse
    Member

    Its surprising that so many chose Brooklyn. Those who chose Brooklyn, is that where you already live or where you want to live and why?

    #890966

    Its surprising that so many chose Brooklyn.

    It’s not surprising at all. So many more frum people live in Brooklyn than everywhere else in the U.S. combined. Anyone can move out yet relatively few do (and many more move in.) So it would have been surprising if so many hadn’t chosen Brooklyn. The results make sense.

    #890967
    HIE
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    let me tell you why many chose brooklyn. Brooklyn has the largest jewish community in the world other then ISRAEL. A jew has everything he needs. you dont gotta travel to far for a kosher grocery, shul, seforim store, kosher restaurant. its near manhattan. big selection of yeshivos. diversity of frum people. what else can you ask for! its great!!!

    #890968
    BasYisroel94
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    In the jungles in Africa. If that’s not an option, then where is? 😉

    Otherwise, Eretz Yisroel. No question about it

    And, if there ARE questions about it (even though there shouldn’t be) then, somewhere where the people have cool accents 🙂

    #890969
    HIE
    Participant

    i forgot…EY is #1

    #890970
    boredinoffice
    Participant

    live in brooklyn now – wish I can live anywhere but here. Its so fake………..

    #890971
    HIE
    Participant

    whats fake about brooklyn??? they say that about lakewood

    #890972
    Ofcourse
    Member

    Dovid HaMelech and HIE:

    Those who have school age children need Brooklyn for the variety of schools. As people age, thats not a factor any more. Also, real estate prices being as insane as they are, even in the bad economy, you can get so much more elsewhere for the price of an average Brooklyn house. Not everyone needs twenty Shuls within a ten block radius, or for that matter ten pizza shops.

    Am I the only one who is “Bored of Brooklyn”? I guess not, after reading post by boredinoffice above. Although Chesed organizations (Hatzalah, Shomrim, Chaverim,etc in Brooklyn are amazing.

    #890973
    Ofcourse
    Member

    HIE whats fake about brooklyn??? they say that about lakewood

    Maybe that pertains to any commnity where many of its inhabitants live on credit to keep up with the Joneses (Kleins and Grosses).

    #890974
    HIE
    Participant

    oh please!! i dont know where you live in brooklyn, but in my area there are very few fancy houses, all simple houses

    #890975
    HIE
    Participant

    im aware of this problem but its everywhere

    #890976
    always here
    Participant

    I’ve lived in B’klyn for tooo many years now; have lived many other places as well. would rather live anywhere but B’klyn, but my whole family’s here.

    “we gotta get outta this place; if it’s the last thing we ever do..”

    #890977
    yossi z.
    Member

    The OP said only in the US so EY is not an option. Though that means that the jungles of africa aren’t either, oh well 😀

    😀 Zuberman! 😀

    #890978
    boredinoffice
    Participant

    HIE

    Lakewood is very fake – tons of lakewood people originate in Brooklyn. The fakeness does not start on Route 9 or GSP or when they start learning at BMG. Its the way we (myself inlcuded) have been brought up. Running to keep up with Joness and myriads of other people. The fakeness CONTINUES in lakewood. it ruins us as Jews and as people. We are chasing after nothing while overlooking what is really important in life. This leads to middle aged people being pushed over the edge financially, mentally and any other way possible to chase after whatever?? Yes I wish I can live anywhere but Brooklyn, Lakewood and other fake communitities that pomote all this garbage.

    It is destroying us as a nation in many ways

    #890979
    YW Moderator-42
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    Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha

    #890980
    HIE
    Participant

    in lakewood not only are they running after the joneses but their doing it on the father-in-laws credit card.

    #890981
    6HZ1W3J
    Participant

    since you say jerusalem isnt an option, in the usa id like santa monica/malibu, though san diego and savannah ga is nice too. maybe alaska

    #890982
    Ofcourse
    Member

    bored, Yes I wish I can live anywhere but Brooklyn, Lakewood and other fake communitities that pomote all this garbage.

    It is destroying us as a nation in many ways

    Are you so sure the same doesnt exist in the Five Towns and other expensive areas? There are probably lots there living off the in laws, as well, and pushing the midle aged people to madness.

    Wherever kids cant meet on their own and have to rely on Shidduchim, where one of the important factors (attractions) is money offered, its going to be the same thing. If parents dont promise, they dont marry off their children, regardless of where they live. The communities where singles meet on their own, dont have that, to this extent.

    Whats your advice, bored? How do we go back to the real McCoy frumkeit of the post-WW2 era?

    #890983

    If parents dont promise, they dont marry off their children, regardless of where they live.

    I haven’t noticed the poor remaining unmarried. The older singles crowd doesn’t stem, by and large, from poorer families.

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    #890984

    if the choice is only in america the lakewood but if the choice is in the world (excluding e”y) then gibraltar

    #890985
    bygirl93
    Member

    Far Rockaway!- where else?!?

    #890986
    ZeesKite
    Participant

    Close to YiddishKite (BP)

    #890987
    eclipse
    Member

    On a block with trees and warm people.(yeah and some houses)

    #890988

    chicago all the way! i live here and i love it! and imho, its not fake, at least, i don’t think it is, i never got that impression. but if you ask many ppl, i’m sure u’ll get diff answers. no pressure here to be like the joneses. sure there are wealthy families here,who give tons of tzedaka…but imho, they are all such nice families.

    for all of u who are bored of brooklyn, come on over, there’s room!

    i also would like to try waterbury and passaic. anyone know anything about rochester?

    #890989
    boredinoffice
    Participant

    Of course

    I have no doubt there are many communities across the US and beyond that have all this. I would be wrong to comment though as I do not know for a fact. I know about Lakewood and live in Flatbush so I can comment freely.

    In terms of going back – It will not happen The problem is bigger then all of us. In communities like Skver, Monroe and other communities where there is one person (rosh yeshiva, rebbe) the people listen (for the most part)to whoever is in charge. Lakewook and Brooklyn and are too big for that. I am not a Chaim Berliner and may not listen if the rosh yeshiva announced a rule of sorts that I was not interested in.

    #890990
    Ofcourse
    Member

    bored, I am not a Chaim Berliner and may not listen if the rosh yeshiva announced a rule of sorts that I was not interested in.

    What if R’ Moshe Feinstein a”h, were alive and would say something about Gashmius guidelines?

    #890991

    Ofcourse: What if?? Rav Moshe did provide such guidelines.

    #890992
    boredinoffice
    Participant

    of course – my point exactly – some people would listen and others wont depending on how they felt about the psak of reb moshe….

    I am curious what Reb Moshe did hold about supporting kids in yeshiva until the kids turn 65. Can someone let me know

    #890993
    Y.S.G.F.K.
    Member

    out of town!

    #890994
    Health
    Participant

    boredinoffice – I agree with you. I grew up OOT, but when I go back there once in awhile, it’s the same there now as NY/ Lakewood. They have spread their ideology all over the American landscape. Waiting for Mosiach -to move to EY!

    #890995
    le7
    Member

    Baltimore!!!!

    #890996
    BasYisroel94
    Participant

    @Yossi z. – Ohh what a shame 😛

    Well, there’s no place like home…

    #890998
    TikkunHatzot
    Member

    I know that there is 1 place in America that I’ve lived in & never want to return…my car.

    #890999
    brotherofurs
    Participant

    Brooklyn. Nice Big Communities [ or maybe Lakewood]

    #891000
    Ofcourse
    Member

    bored, I am curious what Reb Moshe did hold about supporting kids in yeshiva until the kids turn 65. Can someone let me know

    Me too!!! Ive heard people say that if R Aaron would know how the “best learner” often goes to the highest bidder, he’d not have been happy with that.

    #891001
    mewho
    Participant

    i love the stores in flatbush but would not want to live there due to parking and keeping up with the joneses.

    bell harbor is nice coz its near the beach.miami is great for the winter coz its warm. maybe we can mix em all together and come up with the perfect place.

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