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I’m a native New Yorker conflicted over leaving. Here’s why I’m doing it anyway(Why one lifelong New Yorker decided to deploy the nuclear option: A move to Jersey)
New York Post ^ | September 10, 2020 | Sachi Ezura

Posted on 09/10/2020 12:03:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway

I am leaving New York next week. Add me to the list. Another tick in the “New York is dead” column. Or maybe in the “Cowards who can’t wait out the pandemic” column. Wag your finger at me or shake your head in disgust. Tut tut. Tsk tsk. Don’t worry. I’m already doing it to myself.

Let me backtrack. I was born at Mount Sinai on the Upper East Side. I spent my childhood in 20 different apartments across the Upper West Side and beyond, shuttling between my mom’s and my dad’s. My dad moved to Connecticut, then Montreal, then Japan. I switched from attending private school on the Upper West Side to a magnet school on the Upper East, where I met most of my best friends. I went to college in Boston (okay, fine, Harvard), immediately moved back home after college, then set up shop in the various neighborhoods young people flock to across New York — East Village, Murray Hill, Williamsburg.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: badabing; badaboom; corybooker; crime; economy; gardenstate; newjersey; newyork; philmurphy
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For many New Yorkers, moving to New Jersey is worse than throwing yourself in a woodchipper...
1 posted on 09/10/2020 12:03:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: dp0622

Moving to New Jersey or suicide?


2 posted on 09/10/2020 12:04:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: dp0622

Of course, Most Manhattanites think State Island is a bad or worse than New Jersey.


3 posted on 09/10/2020 12:05:06 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

“New York”?
Never heard of it.


4 posted on 09/10/2020 12:08:04 AM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: nickcarraway

this is like moving from hell to west hell


5 posted on 09/10/2020 12:08:29 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

GEEZE a move to Jersey is such a drastic change from NY OMG hope they can handle such a change /s!!!


6 posted on 09/10/2020 12:09:07 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: nickcarraway

So, if you live in New York City, there is only ONE other adjoining state available as your place of refuge? I wish it was universally true. It would keep the “departed” from ruining many other states.


7 posted on 09/10/2020 12:11:27 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

8 posted on 09/10/2020 12:11:48 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Out of the fire and into the frying pan.


9 posted on 09/10/2020 12:12:12 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Never say that to a New Yorker. New Jersey is like the end of the world in Columbus days.


10 posted on 09/10/2020 12:13:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Hey, ease up, huh? We’re not all liberals here. Did you see the boat parade for trump that took place on Barnegat Bay? Get an eyeful. It was six miles long.


11 posted on 09/10/2020 12:27:00 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: jmacusa

This actually has nothing to do with politics. But I’ve lived in both, but it’s true.


12 posted on 09/10/2020 12:28:55 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I cannot make people vote for the right guy.

And which guy is that? Democrap voters should be forced to live in the hellholes they create rather than spread their cancer around

13 posted on 09/10/2020 12:29:13 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: nickcarraway

I know the map is a joke... but I’m annoying and pedantic enough to say that no part of Utah is south of Vegas.


14 posted on 09/10/2020 12:29:18 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: nickcarraway

No it isn’t.


15 posted on 09/10/2020 12:30:12 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Secret Agent Man
this is like moving from hell to west hell

LOL! Having grown up in Jersey, that gave me a laugh.

16 posted on 09/10/2020 12:31:36 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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Never say that to a New Yorker. New Jersey is like the end of the world in Columbus days.

My grandmother, who lived her entire life in NYC and died in 1990, thought there were still Indians running wild in Jersey.

17 posted on 09/10/2020 12:34:03 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s just moving from one s**thole to another s**thole.


18 posted on 09/10/2020 12:48:26 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: nickcarraway

Wait, moving from one confirmed sh*thole to another confirmed sh*thole. Definition of insanity meme please.


19 posted on 09/10/2020 1:00:18 AM PDT by cranked
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To: nickcarraway

There are some nice areas in New Jersey but you may like several other states. Some with much better politics and much lower taxes too


20 posted on 09/10/2020 1:01:33 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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