Posted on 09/02/2012 6:42:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
New Jersey Pro’s - like NY, the entire state is not like NYC, Newark or Camden.
The politics here in N.E. are terrible, but the soil is amazingly productive, fresh clean water is plentiful, and I’d rather throw more wood on the fire during the long, cold winters than deal with southern heat or western drought. Don’t like cockroaches, hobo spiders, or scorpions from those exotic places either so I’ll just put up with the deer flies instead - highland swamp yankee born, highland swamp yankee I’ll die.
The author is a twit,he writes at a third grade level.
RE: New Jersey Pro’s - like NY, the entire state is not like NYC, Newark or Camden.
How are the property taxes there compared to average income?
Is it a place one can retire in?
Any place this Leftist doesn’t want to live is a good place to consider. How do I know he’s a Lefty? In TX, he lists as a “pro” Austin, the Liberal anus of the state,
and George Bush as a “Con.” We don’t want you here, Michael.
Any list that misses something as big as the Atlantic or the Pacific coast and fails to consider it a positive is immediately irrelevant
North Carolina
Pros: southern hospitality, warm weather, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Cons: hurricanes, not enough jobs, multiple nuclear power plants
*****
Shallow reasoning. Anti-nuclear-power dipshiites get no points from me.
The general concept is good, though: there is no “best state” or anything like that, there’s only the place each individual believes would suit him best.
Putting nuclear powerplants as a con, rather than a pro tells me that the rest of the article is not worth reading.
I went thru this same mental excercise and also put Idaho at the top. Much of it really isn’t as cold as you’d think, but cold is a minor minus from my perspective.
Add millions of residents, and it might not be so nice.
NJ not a place for retirement. pension incomes are taxed and property taxes are high, although Christie is working on it
Taxes are no big problem if you’re not working... Might as well go for the nice weather.
bump for later
Yes, the writer is an idiot. Same for his data.
Idaho listed as an A
Texas listed as a B-
Oklahoma lised as a C
BS data
It's smoking!
Today will be 97 or 98 with 100% humidity.
..just the normal July to Sept with a few 100 degree days thrown in.
I thought the same thing. To me nuclear power is a smart move, not a bad thing.
I can't stand this place, but it does have a lot to offer. The combination of high living standards and the accompanying "hassles" of living here is not all that bad, and is far superior to other similar metropolitan regions in the Northeast. I would rather live in a New Jersey suburb of NYC or Philadelphia than a comparable suburban area in Boston, Washington D.C., the New York suburbs of NYC, the Pennsylvania suburbs of Philadelphia, etc.
It attracts hardy people and helps keep the riff-raff out.
I love Michigan despite the Cancer which isn’t Detroit by the way, the real Cancer is places like Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo.
That said I have little use for most cities.
A steady, reasonably-priced supply of electricity is a positive factor for the average family. A big national park? Maybe you visit it once in ten years, unless you live in the far west of the state ... and there are plenty of nice state and county parks that are more accessible, cheaper, and less crowded.
He’s right that NC has pleasant weather, unless you really can’t stand humidity.
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