NJ is undergoing “Detroitification” on a massive scale as employers lead the exodus from the state; news articles recently pointed out how so many college-age Jerseyans find lower tuitions out of state than they’d pay as NJ residents in colleges here, and they never look back.
Our unfunded pension liabilities guarantee any newcomers are just buying shares in a massive IOU, and the infrastructure in the immigrant resettlement areas just deteriorates further because the Americans that maintained everything are gone...
Yeah—it sounds ugly. I have good memories of North Western NJ (Newton area), but those are over 35 years old.