What are the differences in New Jersey and Alb.

[catman]

Mike0421: Excellent post, I gave you a bump for it. I agree, NJ and NM have profound differences. I much prefer NM. The NE part of ABQ is very nice, with prices to match.

Meth heads are all over the country. But it's not too hard to avoid them, unless you live with them.

[GregW]

New Jersey and New Mexico might as well be on different planets. Just the climatic difference is huge. NJ winters are cold and wet, NM are cool& dry. NJ summers are hot and sticky, NM are hot and dry. NJ gets slush, NM gets powder snow.

I suggest taking some time and move to a NM city and stay awhile. Maybe moving to a place of endless optimism and hope from NJ urban depression may help your mood. Give it a try and good luck.
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[mike0421]

Originally Posted by Meeko1999

Mike0421
I'm moving from Phillipsburg so I wouldn't say I'm really part of NJ. It's a really small town with no jobs except fast food and no chance for advancement. The biggest city I've lived in was Allentown, PA. The people that make a decent wage have to travel. I would do that except I can't due to being on general assistance and my mom has a car, but she suffers from breathing problems and sever depression. The public trans. is really bad here and just goes to the community college (that's the farth it goes). To make matters worse I've been on GA since 2001 because of clinical depression that never goes away. My therapist said that maybe getting to a place with more sunshine and a better environment may help.

I know all about Phillipsburg, my sister in law lives in Easton, and I used to go to school with someone who lived in a small town called Broadway, which is just east of P-burg.

If your exposure is limited to P-burg, and points nearby, then your transition should be more seamless than if you arrived from another area of the state. Poverty abounds within Phillipsburg, it is an 'Abbott' school district. You are spatially equivalent to the 87122 district if you were to drive, to say, West Portal, or Milford, two wealthier zip codes in NJ nearby to Phillipsburg.

I understand the depression part, though my was never diagnosed, and was largely limited to winter. Looking back now, I realize that my problem was not so much how cold the winter was, but the persistent steel gray skies that seemed intractible during those cold months. We don't have that problem here, and my spirits are more uplifting in the winter now. It's about 25 degrees warmer on any given day, with sun, however, this is Las Cruces, which is about 10-15 degrees warmer than Abq during any given winter day. But my problem was cloud cover more than the cold itself. Abq's winter, as GregW says, is drier and sunnier.

[veggggies]

Originally Posted by veggggies

I wouldn't either!

I live in NJ from 6th grade until I was 19. And, prior to that we were in PA (except for 2 years we live in WI) and spent every summer down the shore. While the summers at the beach were great as a child, I honestly can't stand NJ. It's boring.

NM is a totally different world. They are so different, it would be hard to compare it other then to say NJ suck and NM rocks!

Wow, I should really proofread before posting. Sorry about that!