I have to defend what you call a butt ugly state. Come to where I live and tell me it is butt ugly. It is not only not butt ugly but it is very conservative.
Begging your pardon - I misspoke myself - I meant the politics of New Jersey are butt ugly!
I know some nice people FRom NJ - my wife left NJ in 1953 - and I know some neat NJ FReepers, too.
I recognize that New Jersey is called the Garden State, and, once you get away FRom the big cities, is is a pretty state.
HST, though, I would not recommend that someone move there, and would recommend that those who are there, LEAVE!
Should political sanity return in the future, I might change my mind.