I don’t doubt that the job market is tough in the Northeast. I have family in N.J. and N.Y. However, young people can find work if they have the right skills (can be vocational or college obtained) and are willing to move where the work is. That’s what I did when I joined the military. I left N.Y. when I was 18 and never looked back.
That’s right, and it poses a huge problem for NJ/NY. They can’t just have their future taxpayers flee, leaving the unassimilated permanent underclass, illegal aliens, and the government workers to administer the asylum. I graduated high school more than twenty years ago, and several of my classmates went to college in other states and never came back.
Things are getting very run-down here in NJ, and I’ve seen the same happening along the border in NY.