How Burbia works

From “we’re moving somewhere” to a saved shortlist - in three moves.

Burbia is a conversational suburb advisor. You tell it what your family actually needs; it scores every town in your metro against that. Below, the three-step flow, and the three artifacts every family walks away with.

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The flow

Three steps. Under two minutes.

The whole experience is built around one idea: you talk like yourself, Burbia does the math.

Tell Burbia about your family

Budget, schools, commute, lifestyle, deal-breakers. Type it like you’d tell a friend, it asks the right follow-up questions instead of making you fill out a form.

Every town in your metro, scored against you

Burbia pulls schools, transit, taxes, sentiment, walkability, and dozens of other signals on every town, then weights them against what your family actually said. 3,058 towns. Your priorities. One ranking.

A shortlist, with the reasoning shown

Each town ranked with a fit score, the trade-offs called out in plain English, and a live map you can dig into. No sign-up required to explore.

What you actually walk away with

What you get

Three things every family walks away with.

A scored shortlist, a real profile for each town, and a side-by-side when you’re down to the finalists. Examples shown below come from NYC metro; the product auto-switches to your area once you sign in.

1 · The shortlist

Every suburb around Manhattan, scored against how your family actually lives. Ranked, mapped, filterable.

  • 94% fit

    Westfield NJ

    $1.25M

    Gold-standard NJ suburb. Vibrant downtown, top schools, deep community feel.

  • 91% fit

    Montclair NJ

    $1.11M

    Artsy, eclectic, walkable. Brooklynites feel at home the day they move in.

  • 88% fit

    Ridgewood NJ

    $1.17M

    New England feel in NJ. Families come for the 10/10 schools and never leave.

2 · The town profile

Neighborhoods, school data, commute, taxes, walk score, and what actually stands out - per town.

Montclair NJ · NYC suburbs

Artsy eclectic outlier. Walkable downtown, Midtown Direct train, Brooklyn-transplant energy.

Schools
8/10
To NYC
49 min
Median home
$1.11M
Walk score
85
Annual tax
$17.2K
Population
41K

Neighborhoods

Upper Montclair

Quieter, larger lots, direct-train station, top-tier elementaries.

$1.35M

South End

Walkable to downtown, craftsman blocks, artsy and diverse.

$995K

Watchung Plaza

Main-street shops, brunch hub, family-dense, close to Edgemont Park.

$1.08M

What stands out

  • ·Midtown Direct to Penn Station - no transfer for the morning commute.
  • ·Montclair Art Museum, Wellmont Theater, and independent bookstores within a mile.
  • ·Cultural anchors of an arts town: jazz festival, indie film festival, 40+ countries represented in restaurant scene.

3 · The head-to-head

When it’s down to the last two, we line them up on every stat that matters - including the ones you forgot to ask about.

Westfield

NJ · NYC metro

vs

Montclair

NJ · NYC metro

  • Schools9/108/10
  • Commute63 min49 min
  • Median home$1.25M$1.11M
  • Walk score7285
  • VibeSuburbanEclectic

Real, current data on every town in your metro. Updated continuously, not scraped once and forgotten.

Ready when you are

Tell Burbia about your family. Get the towns that fit.

Free to use. Takes about 90 seconds. No realtor on the line, no account required to explore.

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