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If you could live anywhere in the USA, where would you live and why? (No Israel isnt an option here). 😉
Brooklyn, New York.
Tannersville, NY (12 months a year)
Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Outside of Brooklyn, but in NY.
flatbush, IT ROCKS DA HOUSE!!! tremendous jewish community, and all types of frum yidden yeshivish, chasidish, litvish, modern, sefardi and city life
florida……
I would like to live in far rockaway/five towns or Providence Rhode Island.
But those are my second and third choices respectively
😀 Zuberman! 😀
Away from the concrete jungles of Brooklyn. Ireland or Scotland. 2 beautiful lands of green.
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
Gotta visit every single place first, then I can let ya know!
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!
two letters – L.A.!!!!!
woodmere. near aish kodesh.
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.
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!!!
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 🙂
i forgot…EY is #1
live in brooklyn now – wish I can live anywhere but here. Its so fake………..
whats fake about brooklyn??? they say that about lakewood
oh please!! i dont know where you live in brooklyn, but in my area there are very few fancy houses, all simple houses
im aware of this problem but its everywhere
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..”
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! 😀
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
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in lakewood not only are they running after the joneses but their doing it on the father-in-laws credit card.
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
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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if the choice is only in america the lakewood but if the choice is in the world (excluding e”y) then gibraltar
Far Rockaway!- where else?!?
Close to YiddishKite (BP)
On a block with trees and warm people.(yeah and some houses)
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?
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.
Ofcourse: What if?? Rav Moshe did provide such guidelines.
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
out of town!
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!
Baltimore!!!!
@Yossi z. – Ohh what a shame 😛
Well, there’s no place like home…
I know that there is 1 place in America that I’ve lived in & never want to return…my car.
Brooklyn. Nice Big Communities [ or maybe Lakewood]
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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