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New Jersey is beautiful BUT I hate it lol. Maybe because I've been traveling a lot and see how much nicer the rest of the country is. Maybe I'm just tired of overpaying For everything, tired of the terrible drivers, traffic, people with bad attitudes, etc.
If you have a nice house with a big yard and in a safe town with a short commute , NJ can be paradise.
To live an enjoyable life in NJ, you need A lot of money. Unless you don't mind living paycheck to paycheck.
A lot of the good jobs are in North Jersey where traffic can take you thirty minutes to travel 2 miles. A light drizzle makes drivers panic! People have lived here all their lives and still complain about the snow, about the heat, about the cold.
Apartments go for $1300+ . Houses sell for $300,000+. Property taxes are $10,000+ per year. I'd rather live in the middle of nowhere than to be in North NJ. South NJ is country and more laid back but the cost of living is still much higher than other rural parts of the country.
If it wasn't for family, I'd leave NJ in a heart beat
I personally wouldn't consider them nationally competitive schools but that doesn't mean one can't attend Montclair or Rowan and go on to be extremely successful.
You know NJIT also exists. It is not as well known as Rutgers but its graduates are well regarded at least in the tri state area.
You know NJIT also exists. It is not as well known as Rutgers but its graduates are well regarded at least in the tri state area.
I honestly don't know that much about it to comment on it one way or another. I've lived in New Jersey for 20 years and have never heard much about it but that could easily be due to my own ignorance and not being in the stem field.
I personally wouldn't consider them nationally competitive schools but that doesn't mean one can't attend Montclair or Rowan and go on to be extremely successful.
New Jersey is beautiful BUT I hate it lol. Maybe because I've been traveling a lot and see how much nicer the rest of the country is. Maybe I'm just tired of overpaying For everything, tired of the terrible drivers, traffic, people with bad attitudes, etc.
If you have a nice house with a big yard and in a safe town with a short commute , NJ can be paradise.
To live an enjoyable life in NJ, you need A lot of money. Unless you don't mind living paycheck to paycheck.
A lot of the good jobs are in North Jersey where traffic can take you thirty minutes to travel 2 miles. A light drizzle makes drivers panic! People have lived here all their lives and still complain about the snow, about the heat, about the cold.
Apartments go for $1300+ . Houses sell for $300,000+. Property taxes are $10,000+ per year. I'd rather live in the middle of nowhere than to be in North NJ. South NJ is country and more laid back but the cost of living is still much higher than other rural parts of the country.
If it wasn't for family, I'd leave NJ in a heart beat
I can post pictures of NJ beaches and other southern East coast beaches and I GUARANTEE you couldn't tell the difference.
NJ has some really nice beaches. AC has a very nice beach. NJ beaches get a bad rap and I don't know why they compare to all but the most pristine on the East Coast.
I wasn't alive then so I can't speak for the time but I wonder if the "syringe tide" of the 80s has anything to do with why people think our beaches aren't nice and are dirty. Perhaps they have a really outdated image in their minds. It wouldn't surprise me given how ignorant some can be. (BTW not talking about anyone in particular here on this thread, just in general because it's something you hear a lot.) Ironically, that wave of garbage was not even NJ's fault, but NYC's.
I wasn't alive then so I can't speak for the time but I wonder if the "syringe tide" of the 80s has anything to do with why people think our beaches aren't nice and are dirty. Perhaps they have a really outdated image in their minds. It wouldn't surprise me given how ignorant some can be. (BTW not talking about anyone in particular here on this thread, just in general because it's something you hear a lot.) Ironically, that wave of garbage was not even NJ's fault, but NYC's.
And don't forget the "tarballs".
In the 80's I saw a young lady get tarballed right on her back in Sandy Hook and believe me she wasn't happy.
New Jersey is beautiful BUT I hate it lol. Maybe because I've been traveling a lot and see how much nicer the rest of the country is. Maybe I'm just tired of overpaying For everything, tired of the terrible drivers, traffic, people with bad attitudes, etc.
If you have a nice house with a big yard and in a safe town with a short commute , NJ can be paradise.
To live an enjoyable life in NJ, you need A lot of money. Unless you don't mind living paycheck to paycheck.
A lot of the good jobs are in North Jersey where traffic can take you thirty minutes to travel 2 miles. A light drizzle makes drivers panic! People have lived here all their lives and still complain about the snow, about the heat, about the cold.
Apartments go for $1300+ . Houses sell for $300,000+. Property taxes are $10,000+ per year. I'd rather live in the middle of nowhere than to be in North NJ. South NJ is country and more laid back but the cost of living is still much higher than other rural parts of the country.
If it wasn't for family, I'd leave NJ in a heart beat
Repped you on this post. Especially on your comment of needing A LOT of money to live decently in New Jersey. The cost of living in Northern NJ is getting almost as high as NYC's cost of living. I lived in NYC for 6 years prior to coming to NJ, and I can tell you that here, you don't get as many options of things to do and services as in living in the city. So I still don't get how all these high costs are justified. Often, people excuse the high COL with the "short commute to NYC". The thing though is that not everyone works, or even plays in the city, yet, everyone has to pay the same high prices. And just like you said, It's crazy to see when you travel outside of the Northeast, how much more you get for your money, and how the quality of life improves (sad to say, but it seems to me that many other areas in the US are cleaner, less hectic, less overcrowded and less expensive and more family friendly).
I feel like New Jersey has great potential, but it is being squandered by terrible leadership, rampant corruption, and it's sad. I have spoken to many regular working class folks (teachers, nurses, etc...) who are unanimously having a hard time keeping up with the high COL. Many of them having 2 to 3 jobs.
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