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Old 12-28-2009, 11:51 PM
 
Location: West Orange, NJ
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The future of the city: Ring in the new New York in 2020

Article with predictions about New York City in 2020.
How do you think the towns and state of things in NJ will be in 2020?
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Old 12-29-2009, 12:36 AM
 
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-urban areas like Newark, Trenton, Paterson, etc will probably start to finally either clean their act up/have the extremely poor move out of state. Budget crisis will mean less handouts to the useless/extemely poor and they will end up shaping up, or shipping out.

- More realistic housing prices in suburban areas. Not saying they will lower, but the suburbs commutable to NYC will become more affordable to the every man (as they always were, prior to the last decade or so)

- more congestion outside of certain towns. While certain areas will have better NYC transportation, more of the outer suburbs will probably expierence more congestion
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Old 12-29-2009, 05:05 AM
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Location: The Sand Hills of NC
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Default The root of all problems

When will the people in charge attack the root of all the worlds problems.
10%+ unemployment just in USA
long lines at the checkout counter
1 hr commutes that should take 1/2 hour
etc,etc,etc

the root cause,
TOO MANY FREEKIN PEOPLE
It's OVERPOPULATION plain and simple.

secondary problem, wacko religious fanatics
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Old 12-29-2009, 03:29 PM
 
Location: Gila County Arizona
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The future of the city: Ring in the new New York in 2020

Article with predictions about New York City in 2020.
How do you think the towns and state of things in NJ will be in 2020?

Sill Goose....

Everyone know the world will end in 2012!!!!
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Old 12-29-2009, 04:04 PM
 
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My predictions

NJ transit finally restores passenger rail service in my part of Jersey.
Newark is considered a nice place to live and Trenton is on the upswing
Camden is still bad as ever, MAYBE it will have started to get better
A.C. is on an upswing
Windmills off the coast provide us with power
NJ is no-longer the most corrupt state (but still up there)
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Old 12-29-2009, 04:42 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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My predictions for 2020:

- You will commute to work in a Jetsons-style flying saucer
- Cooking a meal will be a matter of pushing a few buttons on a machine which instantly dispenses your hot meal. For example, you want turkey with stuffing, potatoes and gravy so push a few buttons and PRESTO in a few seconds you have hot turkey with stuffing, potato and gravy. Junior wants meatloaf with mixed veggies and a brownie for dessert, push a few buttons and PRESTO it's ready in seconds!
- People will have video phones, even ones that they wear on their wrists!
- We will take vacations on Mars and the Moon!!
- We will sleep in sleep pods instead of beds!
- Aliens from Mars, will move here and there will be a lot of conflict between them and us, because they are lizards who wear disguises that make them look human but their tongues are forked lizard tongues
- Instant Coffee!
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Old 12-30-2009, 06:20 AM
 
Location: South Jersey
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Down here in south jersey its gonna be wonderful. No difference then now.
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Old 12-30-2009, 11:31 AM
 
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Federal Government will own NJ due to tons of bailout money from tax dollars to keep the state afloat.
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Old 12-30-2009, 11:45 AM
 
Location: NJ
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it'll be a scene out of mad max.
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Old 12-30-2009, 02:10 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Federal Government will own NJ due to tons of bailout money from tax dollars to keep the state afloat.
That would be dumb of the Federal Government, considering that they are currently (and have been for decades) taking our money and funneling it to the poor "red" states like Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, etc. Before "owning" NJ they would have to give us our money back. Then again, with Christie as gov., he will probably give Washington the keys to NJ and walk away in a fluster, considering how Republicans have always sold out our state so that their Republican friends from the red states could siphon our money out of the state and into their pockets.
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