Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Some of you are watching WAY too much Fox News. The Newark airport is fine, as is the train station that services the airport. You can do one of those long-term parking situations if you need to ... there are multiple sites.

And you have to drive past Baltimore to get there!

Oh true. Ugh, Baltimore. You can almost see the crime from the highway! It's treacherous!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Some of you are watching WAY too much Fox News. The Newark airport is fine, as is the train station that services the airport. You can do one of those long-term parking situations if you need to ... there are multiple sites.

I watch Fox News every day and there is no coverage of crime near the Newark airport. But there is legitimate footage related to crime in other places. Pretending it doesn't exist is magical thinking.

Fox News. Every day. Wow!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Some of you are watching WAY too much Fox News. The Newark airport is fine, as is the train station that services the airport. You can do one of those long-term parking situations if you need to ... there are multiple sites.

I watch Fox News every day and there is no coverage of crime near the Newark airport. But there is legitimate footage related to crime in other places. Pretending it doesn't exist is magical thinking.

I’ve seen the footage on Fox “News” of San Francisco. Imagine my surprise when visiting SF, that the storylines on Fox were just a LITTLE BIT exaggerated. Fox loves to tell you how out of control things are in blue areas, but the reporting on crime, lack of education, rampant poverty and issues plaguing red states like Alabama and Louisiana aren’t reported.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Some of you are watching WAY too much Fox News. The Newark airport is fine, as is the train station that services the airport. You can do one of those long-term parking situations if you need to ... there are multiple sites.

I watch Fox News every day and there is no coverage of crime near the Newark airport. But there is legitimate footage related to crime in other places. Pretending it doesn't exist is magical thinking.

Very true, definitely want to stay out of the states with the highest murder rates

Louisiana
New Mexico
Alabama
Tennessee
Missouri
South Carolina
North Carolina
Mississippi
Arkansas

But should travel to the states with the lowest rates

New Hampshire
Hawaii
Idaho
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Nebraska
Iowa
Maine
New Jersey

Okay this is all definitely off topic now! Feel free to delete Jeff!

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Some of you are watching WAY too much Fox News. The Newark airport is fine, as is the train station that services the airport. You can do one of those long-term parking situations if you need to ... there are multiple sites.

I watch Fox News every day and there is no coverage of crime near the Newark airport. But there is legitimate footage related to crime in other places. Pretending it doesn't exist is magical thinking.

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Some of you are watching WAY too much Fox News. The Newark airport is fine, as is the train station that services the airport. You can do one of those long-term parking situations if you need to ... there are multiple sites.

I am picturing OP, picturing the roads in northern New Jersey, lined with bad guys with machine guns, like in the movie Clear and Present Danger, the scene in Cali Colombia in the early 90s.

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Some of you are watching WAY too much Fox News. The Newark airport is fine, as is the train station that services the airport. You can do one of those long-term parking situations if you need to ... there are multiple sites.

And you have to drive past Baltimore to get there!

This question is wild to me. Newark is fine. You properly would like it as it’s gentrifying.

OMG. Some of you are watching WAY too much Fox News. The Newark airport is fine, as is the train station that services the airport. You can do one of those long-term parking situations if you need to ... there are multiple sites.

You’ll be fine.

Anonymous wrote:Where are you starting from? Either take Amtrak to the Newark airport station, of start at your local airport and find a United flight to Newark, which is a hub. Newark is kind of crappy for flight delays - if you’re going overseas, Dulles is a much better option. They almost always release the flights going overseas even if there’s weather - you just have to get off the ground and then you’re out of the systems, and they usually aren’t waiting for aircraft to come in from somewhere else in the US.

I agree that Dulles is easier. Even if a Newark flight overseas is $200 cheaper, is it really “cheaper?” $800 “saved” for a family of four, is this really saving money when you factor everything involved? Gas, tolls, mileage on vehicle, parking at airport, Amtrak fare, your time…any way that you do it, there is a cost. Then there is returning from your overseas flight, and having to schlep from Newark back to DC.

OP when you look at crime statistics, how many people are victimized while they drive to the airport? This is ridiculous.

Where are you starting from? Either take Amtrak to the Newark airport station, of start at your local airport and find a United flight to Newark, which is a hub. Newark is kind of crappy for flight delays - if you’re going overseas, Dulles is a much better option. They almost always release the flights going overseas even if there’s weather - you just have to get off the ground and then you’re out of the systems, and they usually aren’t waiting for aircraft to come in from somewhere else in the US.

I think the only airport in the U.S. that is dangerous is Oakland. The airport is fine, but many, many warnings about the area around it.

Anonymous wrote:I am not familiar with newark but looking over the news and crime data it seems very very dangerous.

Should we be concerned about taking an Uber up there from nearby Pennsylvania? We opt'd to fly our of newark because it was very cheap but maybe its because of how dangerous the area is?

Our family if 5 flew to Europe out of Newark last Christmas because the flights were so much cheaper. Many nearby airport hotels have deals where you leave your car with them and they shuttle you to the airport. We did this, and it was fine nothing dangerous or sketchy about it.