I've got a pretty good job offer based in Trenton, NJ. The job looks pretty good, and the money is definitely good, but I don't know anything about Trenton or NJ. I'm not sure what kind of taxes I'll be paying, etc or what it's like to raise kids.

Any insight would be helpful!

Dont live in trenton, thats all i have to say about that, yopu can live in many other towns and be within anywhere from a 5 minite drive or a 45 minute drive,
you can start looking at
Prinston,
Lawernville,
they are nice towns, they are in mercer county.
In monmouth county bascily any town is nice, and all,

Any place north of Trenton is nice. Hopewell Township has the best schools of the area, but Lawrenceville's are OK. Princeton High isn't great, but there are good private schools in Princeton - PDS, Stuart (for girls), both k-12, and Hun and The Lawrenceville School for highschool (Lawrenceville is in the top 5 for Prep schools in the nation).

DO NOT LIVE IN TRENTON!!

If you want more info, send me a private message and I can give you most of the dirt.

Here's a good example, well two, first of all, I won't even leave my car there if I'm in a club cause there's a 90% chance it would be gone (the celica) and a woman I work with (I work in Princeton) lives there, they just found her truck stripped the other day.... but Trenton is surrounded by really nice areas to live, I live like 35-40 minutes from there.