Did you see this report: This Passaic County city ranks among nation’s 100 best places to live in 2025 ? It seems my hometown, Clifton, NJ, has been named one of the best places to live in the US for 2025. This marks at least the third year in a row my town has made the list.
Over two thousand cities were considered, all sporting populations of 75,000 to 500,000 people, of which, I am one!
So, put that in your hat and smoke it, I say. Complain all you want with how crowded Clifton and generally all Northern NJ towns might be (and I’ll agree they are stuffed with people and cars) but give me Clifton or give me…
As should be evident from just the existence of this little site, I champion New Jersey as the great place I have always found it to be. I am realistic; we are a brash, rushed and sarcastic bunch. Our infrastructure has surely seen better days. Our school population is bursting. I am on constant dispute over parking laws I find draconian. And stuck in the 70s as I am, a manchild most of the time, not one so comfortable with change, an argument could be made (and I’m not arguing) that I’d be most comfortable where I grew up and have lived for decades.
All these facts though do not negate the fact that Clifton ‘be da bomb’ of a place to live.
As the new survey tell us.
It’s more than just me backing a winning horse. It’s more than being able to shove this latest finding in haters’ faces (and there are lots of NJ haters to be sure). I am just so very proud of my hometown, flawed as it might be, full of the wacky and the weird…but aren’t all places in their own way?
So, let’s raise a glass of whatever you’re drinking to my hometown Clifton, NJ, one of the best places to live.
Jeez, haven’t I been telling you all this for decades?
