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People live where they do for lots of reasons ..these articles are pure nonsense and click bait …
#1 reason for living where many of us do ? Kids , friends and family are there.
As it says about where we are located
“Living in New York City is an infamous challenge, as the median home costs over $1.6 million and rent will run you around $5,100 per month.”
The real truth is more than half of all rentals in nyc fall under rent stabilization…
The rents are less then half of that amount …a market price on a luxury apartment in manhattan may be 5100 ..but typical rents are less then half that figure above.
We live in a great stabilized building and for 2k a month we have a pool and tennis courts in one of the most high end areas in queens .
As far as buying ,there are loads of coops and condos one can buy in high rise buildings for a few hundred thousand dollars
These articles that try to portray a place in a paragraph are nothing but click bait
Last edited by mathjak107; 01-09-2022 at 04:04 AM..
Being next door to NJ and near enough to NYC I know all about their situation. NJ deserves to be near the top of the list for sure, but number 1 state to not live in has to be California, it's a darn near Marxist regime out there, a nanny state, with a super high cost of living, high taxes, high gas costs, horrible commutes, illegal immigrants running wild, and so forth. Let's not forget wildfires, earthquakes and an ongoing drought.
By the way, PA is no paradise either. It's got some good points, but poor weather for 1/3 of the year. I'd rather be elsewhere.
Last edited by BeerGeek40; 01-09-2022 at 04:23 AM..
I would just say that in order to place high on a list like this, you’d have to be in a well off or pretty desirable place.
You would probably rarely see a state with limited economic opportunity and other bad attributes on a list like this because people don’t have the means to leave or there simply aren’t enough people to leave or the cultural mindset to pick up and leave.
It’s just clickbait.
It’s like the misused sports stats that point to certain QBs having comebacks. You have comebacks because you’re often losing. Better quarterbacks might not have comebacks because they’re winning usually… or they’ll say QB x is 40-3 where his team rushes more than it passes…that might not be because they’re better off when they’re not passing, it’s just that they’re running more because the game is already won and they’re grinding clock. But people will try and point to how awesome comebacks are or how you’re a game manager because your team wins more as you pass less.
People often misread what stats imply or potentially mean.
Maybe it’s as simple as those 3 states provided so much economic opportunity, they have a steady stream of retirees moving to warmer climates and enjoying the good life on their warchest of money as they trade to a lower COL area? Or….or…
Last edited by Thatsright19; 01-09-2022 at 05:27 AM..
I would just say that in order to place high on a list like this, you’d have to be in a well off or pretty desirable place.
You would probably rarely see a state with limited economic opportunity and other bad attributes on a list like this because people don’t have the means to leave or there simply aren’t enough people to leave or the cultural mindset to pick up and leave.
It’s just clickbait.
It’s like the misused sports stats that point to certain QBs having comebacks. You have comebacks because you’re often losing. Better quarterbacks might not have comebacks because they’re winning usually… or they’ll say QB x is 40-3 where his team rushes more than it passes…that might not be because they’re better off when they’re not passing, it’s just that they’re running more because the game is already won and they’re grinding clock. But people will try and point to how awesome comebacks are or how you’re a game manager because your team wins more as you pass less.
People often misread what stats imply or potentially mean.
Maybe it’s as simple as those 3 states provided so much economic opportunity, they have a steady stream of retirees moving to warmer climates and enjoying the good life on their warchest of money as they trade to a lower COL area? Or….or…
Agree and disagree with this. Absolutely - can stats be misleading? YEP! And sports stats for sure.
Call it clickbait if you want, but some places are better to live than other ones.
Agree and disagree with this. Absolutely - can stats be misleading? YEP! And sports stats for sure.
Call it clickbait if you want, but some places are better to live than other ones.
But which are better are defined by each of our own priorities and specifics
A metropolis consistently losing seats in Congress as it is, as a trio (NJ/NY/CT) losing population vs a nation gaining 8% per decade.
It should be losing population as millions of retirees leave the northeast for warmer and cheaper pastures.
Almost 67% of all New Jersey moves were outbound last year, according to a survey from United Van Lines.
A third of people who left New Jersey also cited retirement as a primary reason for their decision to pack up and go.
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