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03-09-2008, 11:43 PM
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But again, it's opinion. Opinion based on individual life experience. To someone that grew up in a bad part of Newark, an area might not be bad, while to someone from the suburbs, it is. Since I have more in common with the people from the suburbs, I am going to trust their judgement over the other guy's. He may be thinking "well, there is only a handful of murders here per year." While to me, ONE murder is one too many.
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Well, la-di-da...I guess you must have a better moral sense than most people, huh? |
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03-09-2008, 11:50 PM
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Well, la-di-da...I guess you must have a better moral sense than most people, huh?
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If that's the way you want to read it, fine. But nothing is more important to me than the safety of my children. |
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03-09-2008, 11:53 PM
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If that's the way you want to read it, fine. But nothing is more important to me than the safety of my children.
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Yeah, because everyone else thinks their children don't deserve any better....  |
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03-10-2008, 12:02 AM
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Yeah, because everyone else thinks their children don't deserve any better.... |
But their children are their responsibility. My children are mine.
I know it's late, but I'm not sure I understand your argument. Are you saying that because other people, due to their life's situation, have to put their children in jeopardy, that I should "do my share" and put mine in jeopardy too? |
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03-10-2008, 07:25 AM
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You can't wholly disregard household income when compiling a "Best Place to Live List". The methodology is terrible.
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03-10-2008, 09:35 AM
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You can't wholly disregard household income when compiling a "Best Place to Live List". The methodology is terrible.
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Now now, we should know better than to think that way. After all, they came up with the study, so they have to be right, right?  |
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03-10-2008, 09:46 AM
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I LOVE how Teterboro is in the top 100! That must be the nosiest town with jets literally screaming overhead every minute. Come on!!
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03-10-2008, 09:52 AM
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If that's the way you want to read it, fine. But nothing is more important to me than the safety of my children.
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Well, then, shouldn't you be in some place like Japan, Ireland, Denmark, New Zealand or maybe Norway? I mean, those are the safest countries in the world in terms of crime. What the heck are you doing here in gun-toting, crime-ridden USA?
Oh, I see, because in REALITY, there's more to life than the crime statistics. IN REALITY, you can't just shoe-horn an entire city and its 300,000 inhabitants into one big generalized shoe-horn  |
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03-10-2008, 09:59 AM
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I haven't read through the entire thread, so maybe this has already been asked and answered - but does anyone know how NJ Monthly weighted the eight categories?
Were they equal? If so, as a matter of personal preference, I'd take issue with that. Total crime rate, for example, has a much larger impact on quality of life than percentage of land preserved as open space or student proficiency on state-mandated standardized tests. Equal weights would have the effect of diluting the impact of higher crime rates on the overall 'score' of a community. JMHO.
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03-10-2008, 10:13 AM
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I haven't read through the entire thread, so maybe this has already been asked and answered - but does anyone know how NJ Monthly weighted the eight categories?
Were they equal? If so, as a matter of personal preference, I'd take issue with that. Total crime rate, for example, has a much larger impact on quality of life than percentage of land preserved as open space or student proficiency on state-mandated standardized tests. Equal weights would have the effect of diluting the impact of higher crime rates on the overall 'score' of a community. JMHO.
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I'm no statistician, but it looks like they just averaged the 8 catagories and completely ignored average household income in order to "level the playing field"
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an average of the eight numerical values for each municipality determined its final rank.
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