Moving out of Jersey? Where are you going? (Trenton: car insurance, house)

[samandaxo]

Sadly, after several generations of my and my husband's families living in NJ, we are forced to leave this state.

Unfortunately 100,000 isnt enough salary for us to relocate in this state...we purchased our started house 9 years ago for 118,000 and now we are priced out of the NJ housing market. So upsetting to leave NJ cause I absolutely love and adore my homestate!!!!

I was looking into Columbia South Carolina but I am wondering if anyone else is looking to relocate too???????

[AJGIANTS]

Originally Posted by samandaxo

Sadly, after several generations of my and my husband's families living in NJ, we are forced to leave this state.

Unfortunately 100,000 isnt enough salary for us to relocate in this state...we purchased our started house 9 years ago for 118,000 and now we are priced out of the NJ housing market. So upsetting to leave NJ cause I absolutely love and adore my homestate!!!!

I was looking into Columbia South Carolina but I am wondering if anyone else is looking to relocate too???????

alot of us hear you.. My wife and I headed south as well. Just can not afford housing here as well. Its ludicrous. Our income is close to $150K and we want to make sure our dollars go as far as possible. That will not happen in New Jersey. Good Bye to the Corrupt and Socialist Government in Trenton!

[fischfan13]

I am not sure how soon it will be happening, but New England is my choice.
Vermont and New Hampshire as the strongest possibilities.

[tahiti]

Originally Posted by fischfan13

I am not sure how soon it will be happening, but New England is my choice.
Vermont and New Hampshire as the strongest possibilities.

I like your thinking - I'd head north as well if I were to move.

[mike0421]

Originally Posted by tahiti

I like your thinking - I'd head north as well if I were to move.

If I could handle the winters, Vermont and NH would rank along with the Hudson Valley region of NY as my three preferred destinations, in the entire country, east of the Mississippi River. I have some friends from the Lyme NH area, and when I used to go there, it was like paradise. Also, western VT by Vergennes and Middlebury are outstanding communities. Never was a fan of Rutland, though.

[AJGIANTS]

Geography/Climate desires are different for everyone. Leaving NJ is the common thread.
Its not like 1980's Long Island with old timers looking for Sun. This is about getting out of a state that has forced us out.

[amcjap]

We already bought a house in Durham, NC. Waiting to sell here so we can leave. Hoping to be a trail blazer for family and friends. Home and taxes are cheaper and we're saving 5k on car insurance. We went last week and everything is blooming and so pretty right now. So far everything is cheaper except the gas and the people can't be friendlier. Although, everyone we meet is from NJ or Long Island and all left for the same reason, high taxes.

[dhanu86]

I recommend not moving, there are still homes in NJ cheap, it's very feasible. The suburban areas make me sick how expensive they are, but everywhere else is affordable. But to answer the question I would move to Arizona, near the reservation, if u wuna save money new life and be around new culture that's the location. NEW JERSEY ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE lol. My mother sweared she was moving but came back 12 months later for work. and me. home is where family is

[Ciao9999]

So many Jersey bashing threads.

Well I'm headed back to NJ this weekend for Mother's Day, and I can't wait.
No place I'd rather be on a Spring night than the boardwalk with my friends. No better place for real Italian food, not that plastic pasta you get down South. Love the real neighborhoods, not the lifeless, sterile subdivisions people flock to in the sunbelt.

NJ has a lot going for it, the people complaining will find something to complain about no matter where they do.

Mind you, gas prices in NJ are among the cheapest in the nation.
Stop complaining about Governor Corzine, he inherited mismanagement from "borrow and spend" Chri$tie Whitman and Jim McGreevey. Corzine ran a billion dollar investment firm, I trust he knows more about running a budget than cranky suburbanites crying about how tough life is in their split levels and SUVs.

[Ciao9999]

Originally Posted by AJGIANTS

Geography/Climate desires are different for everyone. Leaving NJ is the common thread.
Its not like 1980's Long Island with old timers looking for Sun. This is about getting out of a state that has forced us out.

Actually, back in the 1980's, there were people who recognized that NJ in it's future would face problems of overcrowding, overdevelopment, lack of open space, lack of mass transit.

The response? The naysayers insisted that addressing these problems was not the place of govenrment. Only minorities needed mass transit they insisted, so the Caucasian suburbanite saw no need to invest in transit alternatives.

Flash forward to 2008: the roads are overcrowded, open space was lost, and subdivisions, office parks, and malls that were supposed to bring ratables have failed to lower taxes.

And who are the first people out the door? The very naysayers who didn't want to address anything 20 years ago.