Housing
Jersey City: Cheaper, Yes, But Also a Real Sense of Community
New York-area Millennials moving there are finding a lot more than just low rent.
Twenty-nine-year-old Mark Bunbury is a poster child for upward mobility. He grew up in Jersey City in a low-income family, the son of Trinidadian and Guyanese immigrants. He attended a public high school, graduated from Penn State, then went on to law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He’s now an ambitious, gregarious labor attorney, with disposable income to burn.
Still, despite some expectations from family and peers, he never went across the river to New York. Instead, he carved out a niche in his hometown at the urging of a few friends who stayed.