Which South Jersey city(s) to become next Camden? (Newark: house, live)

[sjstar2305]

What city(s) do you believe will fall in the declien that Camden has suffered.

[dhanu86]

Originally Posted by sjstar2305

What city(s) do you believe will fall in the declien that Camden has suffered.

willingboro/mount holly/burlington/pemberton if any

[shannybannany]

I had an appliance repairman come to my house to fix my fridge.He lived in Mt. Holly and said Mt. Holly is a dump. It has beautiful homes....sad.

Shanny

[shannybannany]

Woodbury and Pennsauken....yikes

Shanny

[MoorestownResident]

The quick answer is none. There are undesirable towns like those mentioned but Camden will always be Camden. Most of SJ is growing stronger than the rest of the northeast and has a very bright economic future with more jobs and wealth moving into the area than leaving.

[njkate]

I don't think any city/town can get as bad as camden!

[rainrock]

Originally Posted by MoorestownResident

The quick answer is none. There are undesirable towns like those mentioned but Camden will always be Camden. Most of SJ is growing stronger than the rest of the northeast and has a very bright economic future with more jobs and wealth moving into the area than leaving.

Good grief. You really need to expand your boundaries from RT 38.

[Badfish740]

The question doesn't really make sense. Camden is in the state it's in due to economic decline that began in the post World War II era and white flight/urban blight that began in the late 1960s as a result of race riots. This is a scenario that has been experienced with some variation around the country in virtually every industrial city. In our own Garden State we've seen it happen with Trenton, Paterson, Newark, Camden, Jersey City, etc... First the industry left (The steel/wire factories of Trenton, the silk mills of Paterson, the shipbuilding companies of Camden), then the exodus to the suburbs began. Finally, race riots were the death knell for many cities. The point is that the cycle of decline that created Camden is not being replicated. Other areas such as Willingboro, Pemberton, etc...have their problems, but nothing that compares with the urban economic decline that followed World War II.

If anything, rising fuel prices and energy costs in general which are forcing businesses to reinvest in urban areas due to better transportation infrastructure, etc...will give urban areas of South Jersey a much needed boost, especially the industrial river towns in Burlington County. In fact, I just saw something on the news last night about companies who had moved production to China in the late 80s early 90s and are now moving back to the U.S. These are industries such as furniture making and light industrial products. The overriding reason? Fuel prices. In 1998 it cost $3,000 to ship a 40' container out of Port Newark to China. Now it costs almost $9,000 to ship the same container. Multiply that by 100s or 1000s of containers and suddenly China's cheap labor isn't all that cheap. South Jersey (and all of New Jersey) can certainly benefit from that. I know that I would be happy to see the graffittied and burned out factories in Trenton working once again making a American products with an American workforce.