New Jersey vs Staten Island vs Long Island (Summit: home, buying)
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we did touch on property taxes a bit. my auto insurance is about 1/4 what it was when i lived in brooklyn. so a big savings there.
Everyone I know who moved to NJ reported their auto insurance rates dropped, some significantly.
This is one reason people try to register their vehicles in NJ or elsewhere instead of NYS even if they live say on Staten Island or other parts of NYC.
people are such sissies. its an 1.25 hour trip. most of my fellow holmdelites have a worse commute than me. mightyqueen's commute seems a little worse but that is because she refuses to run over the jewish kids coming off their school buses.
Everyone I know who moved to NJ reported their auto insurance rates dropped, some significantly.
This is one reason people try to register their vehicles in NJ or elsewhere instead of NYS even if they live say on Staten Island or other parts of NYC.
It didn't used to be that way. NJ had the highest car insurance in the nation. Even higher than NY.
The one good thing James E. McGreevey did in his tenure as governor was to deregulate the auto insurance industry. The state insurance regulations made it impossible for many insurance companies to enter the state. After deregulation, competitive companies like Geico came to NJ and the competition drastically brought the insurance rates down for everyone.
The one good thing James E. McGreevey did in his tenure as governor was to deregulate the auto insurance industry. The state insurance regulations made it impossible for many insurance companies to enter the state. After deregulation, competitive companies like Geico came to NJ and the competition drastically brought the insurance rates down for everyone.
Yup!
The only accomplishments of the McGreevy administration had to do with auto insurance and reform at the DMV. Does anyone else recall Christy Whitman's sweetheart deal with the company that got the contract for privatizing the car inspection process, only to force people to stand in the cold for hours at a time while the privatized company's printers froze (literally), and other major problems delayed the inspection process?
Overall, McGreevy's administration was a disaster, but he did manage to improve matters in regard to car insurance and in regard to converting Whitman's problem-plagued DMV to the new and improved MVC.
Yup!
The only accomplishments of the McGreevy administration had to do with auto insurance and reform at the DMV. Does anyone else recall Christy Whitman's sweetheart deal with the company that got the contract for privatizing the car inspection process, only to force people to stand in the cold for hours at a time while the privatized company's printers froze (literally), and other major problems delayed the inspection process?
Overall, McGreevy's administration was a disaster, but he did manage to improve matters in regard to car insurance and in regard to converting Whitman's problem-plagued DMV to the new and improved MVC.
The DMV experience did get much better, but I've been hearing lately that is is back to being a nightmare again. Less locations, less employees, and shorter hours all causing really long wait times. I don't know what caused this change, but I am going to have to go there sometime in January and I'm not looking forward to it.
The DMV experience did get much better, but I've been hearing lately that is is back to being a nightmare again. Less locations, less employees, and shorter hours all causing really long wait times. I don't know what caused this change, but I am going to have to go there sometime in January and I'm not looking forward to it.
For years, I've been driving to a semi-rural DMV. I don't mind driving, but I hate waiting in line.
The DMV experience did get much better, but I've been hearing lately that is is back to being a nightmare again. Less locations, less employees, and shorter hours all causing really long wait times. I don't know what caused this change
You really don't know what led to the cutbacks in locations and staffing at the MVC?
Really?
Just to refresh your memory, below is a photo of the person who is responsible, as he attempts to keep the state's precarious financial House of Cards from total collapse before he leaves office.
In addition to fewer locations and reduced staffing at MVC offices (There is no "DMV" folks! It has been the MVC for a number of years), the two-decade-old computer system at the MVC was supposed to have been replaced several years ago, but he keeps moving the goal line forward, again and again in order to keep costs down--at the expense of really bad customer service for the poor schmucks who have to go to the MVC offices and who pay both MVC fees and his salary.
That ancient and outdated computer system is subject to almost-daily breakdowns, and by continually delaying its replacement, he is adding to the woes of the people in line at the MVC.
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You really don't know what led to the cutbacks in locations and staffing at the MVC?
Really?
Yes. Really. I try to keep up with the news, and I think I do a pretty good job considering I work 80+ hours a week, but some things do occasionally get missed. Rather than pretend I know the answer to something, I usually just say "I don't know."
Yes. Really. I try to keep up with the news, and I think I do a pretty good job considering I work 80+ hours a week, but some things do occasionally get missed. Rather than pretend I know the answer to something, I usually just say "I don't know."
That is a refreshing bit of honesty, in a forum where so many people throw allegations and opinions around, despite those allegations and opinions not being supported by factual information.
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