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United Van Lines’ tracking showed the Northeast is the most prominent region on the high-outbound traffic list. In addition to New Jersey, New York (61 percent), Connecticut (59 percent) and Massachusetts (56 percent) are also included.
Where are people moving, according to United? Oregon (61 percent inbound), South Carolina (60 percent) and North Carolina (58 percent).
Is Gov NJFatboy heading to Atlanta with Mercedes? Or to Dallas with Jerry Jones?
And aren’t you heavily taxed when you leave? Wow, that’s bad....
We fled from NJ 20 years ago. We will flee from PA next.
When you try to leave Kaliphorniastan the state will charge you a departure tax: https://douglasvgibbs.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/want-to-leave-california-pay-your-exit-tax-as-you-leave/
Maybe turning the Garden State back to a garden when everyone leaves is the best solution.
AND bringing their voting patterns that ruined the state with them.
83% were leaving because of job transfers, new job or retirement. Well over 50% were 55 or older.
NJ is definitely not a good place to retire in.
Looking at the map, my heart weeps for Virginia. I love that beautiful state and am sorry to see it take the turns it has.
Well, if you live in the western part of New Jersey, it’s a very nice place to live. It’s not congested and taxes are somewhat lower.
Yes, it’s an expensive place to live, but right now my wife and I can manage it. We’re lucky we have good jobs.
That being said, there’s certainly no way we plan to retire here. It just won’t be possible even without a mortgage. So we’ll hopefully have a cold weather in the South for the winter months and likely spend summer months out of the country altogether.
I don’t think they have taken the illegals into consideration.
The virus of liberalism is spreading!
I look forward to adding to this exodus total in the near future.
One often hears that this is making our state politically bluer. I disagree. It's not a cross-section of New Jersey, representative of the population as a whole, that's moving elsewhere. Rather, it's corporate relocations, self-selected moves by entrepreneuers, and retirees. My experience is that they, for the most part, lean conservative.
Evidence?
Compare the 1980 and 2012 elections. The Republican candidate carried North Carolina by about 2% both times (Reagan, in 1980, won 49.30% to 47.18%; Romney, in 2012, won 50.39% to 48.35%). But the shift in the Republican direction in Union County, as well as the huge population growth, is evident: in 1980, Carter carried Union County over Reagan by 10,073 to 9,012; in 2012, Romney routed Obama in the county 61,107 to 32,473.
My conclusion is that while our new neighbors may occasionally annoy by rooting for the Steelers and preferring bagels over Krispy Kremes, they vote right.
I was wondering if they would go to NC. How depressing.
Bad news for folks in red states..............