What does this state have? Last ditch effort. (Union, Long Branch: real estate, crime)
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I plan to vote with my ballot and it that does not work I will vote with the moving van. Or since I live in the southern most part of the state, my pickup truck...
Well, I recently moved here but I like it so far.
Pros:
1.Proximity to NYC and the Manhattan views! Also, proximity to other major cities in the Northeast and Canada
2. Food is aamazing
3. Beaches in the summer
4. The four distinct seasons
5. The diversity here in culture, languages, races, mindset, etc
6. The airports! (easy to leave & go anywhere you want )
7. Affordable, outside of housing of course
Cons:
1. Traffic
2. Some people...
3. Not as much nature as I would like
Overall, the good outweighs the bad so I am choosing to stick around a little longer.
Nice that you try to lump the shore area in with the inland areas as though they are the same kind of places. I don't know what YOU are talking about.
Rumson/Spring Lake/Sea Girt/Manasquan/Deal/Avon/Little Silver/Brielle/Sea Bright - Insular shore towns full of old money with unwelcoming locals that keep to themselves.
Colts Neck/Manalapan - Glorified white trash from Staten Island and McMansions galore. I cannot understand why anyone would want to live in these towns, it's all cookie-cutter developments.
Middletown/Ocean/Tinton Falls - Declining old middle to lower-middle class neighborhoods with neglected school facilities, decaying infrastructure and pure white trash (think Keansburg type) elements slowly but surely leaking in. Though the south side of Middletown suffers from a fair amount of spillover from the Colts Neck/Manalapan elements.
Sorry, Monmouthites. And once you have gone to other beaches you realize what a toilet the Jersey Shore really is.
I plan to vote with my ballot and it that does not work I will vote with the moving van. Or since I live in the southern most part of the state, my pickup truck...
They wouldn't have to put anything on the ballot to fund pensions if they didn't rob from them starting with Christie Whitman (who was Republican) and continuing with EVERY governor since (including the Democrats). Then this one, (another Republican) negotiates contracts with cuts by promising to fund the pensions then RENEGES on the deal.
Thanks for painting me as being incredibly naive and drawing radical assumptions about my mindset. Perhaps my self-awareness and intelligence doesn't come come through over an internet forum but I assure you I'm not just doing this flippantly like the wanderlust type people who are everywhere nowadays.
I cannot deny that there are parts of NJ which are beautiful, world class I'm sure, but the commuter corridor which I have always lived in is a nightmare yet seems to be the only place in the state where any decent employment is available.
I never questioned your intelligence. I said you are being naive. You can be intelligent and still be naive. You can be book smart, and still lack common sense.
And, I would even add that there is nothing wrong with wanderlust. To say that you want to move to Colorado because you need a change, or crave an adventure, or you're curious about that part of the country, or you just want to live out west for a while, are all completely valid reasons.
What I think is naive is that you are assuming that you will love Colorado based on the fact that you had a good time in places like Bar Harbor and the Hudson Valley. And based on the fact that you hate NJ so much. And what is also naive is that you think that all of the things you turn your nose up at...suburbs, malls, sprawl, ugly highways...are unique to NJ and don't exist, in spades, in every other state in the lower 48, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam.
Not to mention you posted that you had never actually been to Colorado, and you don't even want to bother to visit (because you are sure that you will fall in love with it, so it's not necessary to visit). You are going there blind, and with no job prospects. (If that's not "flippant', what is?) You are complaining about $1000 rents for a 1 bedroom apartment in NJ, and yet, what do you think the rents are gonna be in the likes of FoCo and Boulder? Plus the cost of maintaining a lifestyle of rich people sports like skiing, and drinking fancy beer? Even running, hiking & cycling can be expensive if you are truly avid (gear, race fees).
And when you refer to the "commuter corridor", are you talking about Belmar, as per your original post? Belmar is a commuter corridor? (And completely engulfed by the rat race, as per your other thread?) And it's the only place in NJ where any decent employment is available? WHAT? Really? It doesn't sound to me like you've been to very many parts of NJ, especially considering your comments about the vast wasteland that awaits you past the Driscoll, and the Dixielands to the south. That is a great example of a RADICAL ASSUMPTION, by the way.
It's amazing to me that you take issue over supposed RADICAL ASSUMPTIONS you think I've made about you and your intelligence, yet you (and other disgruntled people on this thread) have no qualms about making RADICAL, sweeping generalizations, not only about entire towns, but entire counties, and the entire state....RADICAL, sweeping generalizations that everyone in certain towns and in certain counties are low class, trashy, "despicable", insular, living beyond their means.
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Well, we all live completely on top of one another here and all there is to see is barren trees and cracked pavement so quite frankly any alternative save hell itself seems to be better. Most areas which supply foliage around here only do so for a brief period of time. Lush vegetation year round is only possible in the Adirondack region where pines are omnipresent. ...[snip]... Have any of ya'll been to NJ!!??
I never questioned your intelligence. I said you are being naive. You can be intelligent and still be naive. You can be book smart, and still lack common sense.
And, I would even add that there is nothing wrong with wanderlust. To say that you want to move to Colorado because you need a change, or crave an adventure, or you're curious about that part of the country, or you just want to live out west for a while, are all completely valid reasons.
What I think is naive is that you are assuming that you will love Colorado based on the fact that you had a good time in places like Bar Harbor and the Hudson Valley. And based on the fact that you hate NJ so much. And what is also naive is that you think that all of the things you turn your nose up at...suburbs, malls, sprawl, ugly highways...are unique to NJ and don't exist, in spades, in every other state in the lower 48, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam.
Not to mention you posted that you had never actually been to Colorado, and you don't even want to bother to visit (because you are sure that you will fall in love with it, so it's not necessary to visit). You are going there blind, and with no job prospects. (If that's not "flippant', what is?) You are complaining about $1000 rents for a 1 bedroom apartment in NJ, and yet, what do you think the rents are gonna be in the likes of FoCo and Boulder? Plus the cost of maintaining a lifestyle of rich people sports like skiing, and drinking fancy beer? Even running, hiking & cycling can be expensive if you are truly avid (gear, race fees).
And when you refer to the "commuter corridor", are you talking about Belmar, as per your original post? Belmar is a commuter corridor? (And completely engulfed by the rat race, as per your other thread?) And it's the only place in NJ where any decent employment is available? WHAT? Really? It doesn't sound to me like you've been to very many parts of NJ, especially considering your comments about the vast wasteland that awaits you past the Driscoll, and the Dixielands to the south. That is a great example of a RADICAL ASSUMPTION, by the way.
It's amazing to me that you take issue over supposed RADICAL ASSUMPTIONS you think I've made about you and your intelligence, yet you (and other disgruntled people on this thread) have no qualms about making RADICAL, sweeping generalizations, not only about entire towns, but entire counties, and the entire state....RADICAL, sweeping generalizations that everyone in certain towns and in certain counties are low class, trashy, "despicable", insular, living beyond their means.
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