I am relocating to New Jersey and need advice to determine the best area. What criteria should I use. Good school district for Middle & High school, 1 hour commute, are two things that come to mind. Please advise.

New Jersey has so much to offer it's hard to know where to start. The first thing you should consider is YOU. What is your ideal living situation. Do you love the beach or the countyside? Do you like food stores within walking distance or is is okay to drive a little or 15 minutes. Do you want to wake up to a rooster or the bussel of a busy main street? After you decide that then look at the best school systems from grade school through high school. The commuting situation depends on where you need to go and how you need to get there bus, train, car or bike! New Jersey has great areas with every situation. I grew up minutes from New York City in Essex County, spent summers living at the Jersey shore in Ocean County when I was young and Monmouth County in my 20's, married and moved to Somerset County (which was the "country" to me at the time) and now reside in Hunterdon County amoung the dairy farmers to raise my family with traditional values and take adventage of the fabulous school sytem. Each place has given me the life I dreamed of at every point of my life.