Source: New Jersey Monthly, August 15, 2011 by Jacqueline Mroz

Drive north on Route 17 in Bergen County beyond the bustling shopping corridor of Paramus, and suddenly everything grows serene. Welcome to Ho-Ho-Kus, a sleepy little corner of New Jersey overshadowed by its busier neighbors. And that’s just fine with the residents of this borough, thank you very much.

“It’s a quiet town. We don’t mind when our town isn’t in the paper. We don’t need the limelight,” says Ho-Ho-Kus Mayor Thomas W. Randall. “Some people even like to call it ‘Mayberry’.”

This affluent hamlet, with its stately homes, commitment to education, relatively palatable taxes and low crime rate, is the number 1 town in New Jersey Monthly’s 2011 Top Towns survey.

The 4,078 residents here enjoy the experience of living in a small town, but also benefit from an easy commute to Manhattan and easy access to the restaurants and shopping of larger neighboring towns—especially Ridgewood to the west.

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