One week over!

One week over, am still indecisive about the house. Lot of confusion over where to take a house. I had two plans or rather two options.

Plan A

Take an apartment in Journal Square.

Journal Square is a sort of indian locality.It is congested, unclean and very densely populated area. Not the sort of place one would want to be in immediately after coming to the US. The sole advantage to this place is that it is close to the city, very closely connected to New York through the rail and bus network. People who work in the New York could take a place in this sort of a place, coz the prices in new york is beyond the sky.

My office is in Newport, 2nd station from Journal Square by train, so its very easier for me to go to office if I take a home in Jersey city. However, I hated the place the moment I saw it.

Plan B

Take a place away from work and New York, like Edison, Woodbridge etc.

But this is like an hours drive to office, so a car is a must. Three of us (friends) in the current project are thinking of buying a car together and sharing the expenses. The advantage with a place like Woodbridge or Edison is that it is very scenic, spacious, clean and serene. The problem here is finding apartments for all the three of us in the same place. It is proving to be a bit of a challenge. Whole of yesterday and today we were out there searching apartments, lot of good options but somehow each one posed some problem for atleast one of us.

At this moment, it looks like more of Plan B will work out. For now, living in my bro-in-law and sisters home. Living with them makes us forget that we are away from India, theirs is a Warm and cozy place. Im giving myself a couple of more weeks
max to find a house, hope to find a good one soon.

My wonderful office

Till now, the one thing I liked the most, was my office place. One word for it is stunning, it is located on the 11th floor of a 15 storey building on Washington Blvd in Jersey city.
Note the office, marked in green below in google map, it is right near the entrance of the Holland Tunnel. The Holland Tunnel starts in New Jersey goes under water across the hudson river and emerges out in New York. Wonderful aint it?
The office is located on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, the river
separates New Jersey and New York. The view from office is just stunning, on one side of the building we can look at the whole of New York and from the other end of the floor we can look at New Jersey. The views are just breathtaking. I will try and post some pics from my office building soon.

Thats all the update till now, interesting month ahead.