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Overall Sussex County tends to be conservative. Also,due to the higher elevation, it is colder there when compared to Bergen County or Montclair. (If moving there, make sure you have 4 wheel drive.) The other problem is the time it takes to drive to a decent sized mall.
On the other hand, in most towns the taxes will be lower and you will get more house and property for your money.
I'm going to assume by progressive you mean progressive lifestyle. In other words, secular community, cultural events in town, good library, farmers markets, nice downtown. I'd say for that, your best bet is Montclair if you want something suburban. Downsides to Montclair, **** poor public transport to NYC on weekends(be prepared to drive to the Clifton station), high property taxes, otherwise quite an enjoyable town to raise a family. Also has a couple of movie theaters in town, no need to run to a multiplex at GSP.
My family and I are looking to move to a progressive/liberal community in Northern NJ with good schools, low crime, and reasonable taxes. Can anyone advise?
Thanks!
Liberalism does not go with low crime, reasonable taxes, and good schools since liberalism often breeds trust of government but distrust of any authority, schools which are run by a centralized government, and taxes which continue to be raised in order to pay for wasteful spending so liberals can win elections and have their ideological dreams fulfilled.
I would say Morristown or Madison would be your best bet; they both have a lot of democrats but are in a republican county and therefore have low taxes, low crime, and good schools.
Liberalism does not go with low crime, reasonable taxes, and good schools since liberalism often breeds trust of government but distrust of any authority, schools which are run by a centralized government, and taxes which continue to be raised in order to pay for wasteful spending so liberals can win elections and have their ideological dreams fulfilled.
I would say Morristown or Madison would be your best bet; they both have a lot of democrats but are in a republican county and therefore have low taxes, low crime, and good schools.
Bad news on Montclair: taxes are ridiculous. Probably because of the liberals who run the town.
Liberalism does not go with low crime, reasonable taxes, and good schools since liberalism often breeds trust of government but distrust of any authority, schools which are run by a centralized government, and taxes which continue to be raised in order to pay for wasteful spending so liberals can win elections and have their ideological dreams fulfilled.
I would say Morristown or Madison would be your best bet; they both have a lot of democrats but are in a republican county and therefore have low taxes, low crime, and good schools.
Yikes, that's a very broad brush that you like to paint with. I guess you need to tell all those liberals in Vermont (to name one) that they need to get some more crime and raise taxes so they can fit in NJDude's little box.
Yikes, that's a very broad brush that you like to paint with. I guess you need to tell all those liberals in Vermont (to name one) that they need to get some more crime and raise taxes so they can fit in NJDude's little box.
The reality is, liberals run places into the ground. Lyndon Johnson's policies led public education into the ground for more than 30 years, George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind, while flawed, has helped millions of kids reach for their dreams, but still too many are not reaching for those dreams because of inner-city schools run by liberal bureaucrats. Additionally, cities like LA and Chicago, dominated by liberals for years, have not enforced their laws, have not promoted economic growth, continue to give people money for doing nothing, and have bred corruption. The result has been high crime. Liberal cities have a small tax base since it's citizens are on welfare or too poor to pay taxes.
Also, Vermont was a republican state until the 1990s.
The reality is, liberals run places into the ground. Lyndon Johnson's policies led public education into the ground for more than 30 years, George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind, while flawed, has helped millions of kids reach for their dreams, but still too many are not reaching for those dreams because of inner-city schools run by liberal bureaucrats. Additionally, cities like LA and Chicago, dominated by liberals for years, have not enforced their laws, have not promoted economic growth, continue to give people money for doing nothing, and have bred corruption. The result has been high crime. Liberal cities have a small tax base since it's citizens are on welfare or too poor to pay taxes.
Also, Vermont was a republican state until the 1990s.
NCLB sucks. Ask any teacher. They waste hours "teaching to the test" and not actually teaching concepts that kids need to know. Figures a dunce of a President introduced that mess. From the same failure who gave us the Iraq War and tax cuts for millionaires.
Yikes, that's a very broad brush that you like to paint with. I guess you need to tell all those liberals in Vermont (to name one) that they need to get some more crime and raise taxes so they can fit in NJDude's little box.
Vermont is not NJ...period.
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