[aMorePerfectUnion]

Some of us have hostages to fortune.

I'm not sure what fortune you refer to...

[Sicon]

Some of us are stuck in NJ because we have kids in school and do not want to uproot them in the middle of it (particularly if they are in a good private school), or are bound by a divorce decree, or are still waiting for the housing market to recover enough that we don't take an enormous loss on our house...

There can be many reasons. My countdown to departure from this state is somewhere between 4-6 years. Not happy about it, but like many others, don't really have the option to leave at the moment.

[mewzilla]

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Francis Bacon

Or, in our case, elderly relatives. We can't leave yet.