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.
You are right the politics are butt ugly. We would like to leave but we like it where we are and until it becomes un affordable we will stay.