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Originally Posted by iheartthed

New Jersey really has the full spectrum of suburbanity, or maybe we should call them bedroom communities? The Hudson County bedroom communities are denser than every major US city except NYC itself. Essex, Union, Bergen, etc., counties all have above average to average density. While outer counties in places like Morris County, western Passaic, etc., have semi-rural densities.

Westchester is somewhat similar although the drop off occurs much closer to the 5 boroughs than in NJ.

Long Island is probably the most standard suburbia. The density drop off starts in eastern Queens, so all of Nassau County is typical density US suburbia with almost nothing semi-rural looking. Western Suffolk looks much the same as Nassau, but you start to see the semi-rural character pop up at about the halfway point when going east.

Nassau County reminds me of Orange County. I wouldn't really consider that sprawl. I would consider the western half of Connecticut to be sprawl.