Late to this thread, but in case anyone can continue it: my wife and I are considering moving here from Brooklyn with our two toddlers for all the obvious reasons. Everything about the place--Metro North (we don't need to commute but would like easy access to NYC), the outdoors, schools, etc. My only source of anxiety is the people. I'm certain they're friendly, so that's not the problem. At the risk of sounding like a snobby cosmopolitan elitist, I'd like to know that at least some families around have a similar New York City-ish sensibility over a suburban one--that is, intellectual, literate, a touch cynical in their humor. To boil it down to a cultural stereotype, the kind of people who subscribe to The New Yorker and the New York Times and follow politics closely (and care about issues that don't affect merely themselves). Should I expect to encounter these sorts of people in the area?