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New Jersey is too expensive to live in any more. I covered this in a journal entry, but the value of my little shithole of a house was just upped to over $297k!!!! It's about 1800 sq ft on a 50ftx100ft lot-porch is in need of replacing, no sidewalks....property taxes on average just in my town are over 5 grand...People are picking up and moving to North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina because they can sell high here and buy there for cash with plenty left over.
Blue collar jobs here are dwindling-car manufacturers, etc have pulled up stakes and moved elsewhere for cheaper labor, better tax rates and cheaper land. I well suspect that in most any other state besides maybe California, saying one makes $25 an hour sounds good-in New Jersey, it's not a living wage.
My southern friends always ask me when I'll be a 'damned yankee'-one who moves south. Not a day goes by I don't give it a thought.
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Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.
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