New Jersey?
How nice...they left out the hoards leaving NY and California for the exact same reason. Sorry...my fault I forgot ONE state has a GOP governor.
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1. People from New Jersey have been moving to Pennsylvania and Florida for years. People move to Pennsylvania for cheaper housing (but many of them still work in New Jersey anyway, which means they pay New Jersey income taxes). People move to Florida when they retire, which means they are past their prime earning years anyway.
2. The bigger problem New Jersey faces is that a lot of their professional class is moving to places like Virginia, North Carolina and Texas. These moves are driven mainly by relocations of employers, which is a very big problem in the long term.
3. For the "richest of the rich," what is likely to be the final nail in the coffin is the growing political pressure to reduce or eliminate the property tax exemptions for agricultural land in the rural areas of some of the wealthiest counties in the country (Morris, Somerset and Hunterdon). Once this happens, there's a huge financial incentive for someone like Steve Forbes, Woody Johnson or Michael Price to get out of the state.
You have to be rich to pay New Jersey property taxes, from what I have seen.
NJ used to extort income tax money from “passing through” trucking companies. (talk about violating interstate commerce)
NJ is toxic stupid. Why the sock exchanges placed their computers there is beyond stupid.
Welcome to Florida.
Leave your voting patterns at the state line.................................
I hear that a lot around here (Union County, NC), and on this forum. I respectfully disagree.
It might seem logical that an influx of people from blue states would move our politics to the left, but you have to remember that we aren't getting a cross-section of the populations of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, etc. Rather, we are getting a largely self-selected group who decides to move because they can. Retirees, entrepreneurs, and corporate transfers.
I cite as evidence the fact that the most rapidly growing counties in North Carolina, including Union (Charlotte suburbs); Johnston (Raleigh suburbs); Brunswick, Carteret, Dare (coastal resort areas); and Moore (Pinehurst/Southern Pines) have been trending Republican rather strongly. And much of the growth of these counties is fueled by transplants from "Up North."
The election figures are pretty clear. One example: Reagan in 1980 and Romney in 2012 narrowly carried North Carolina, by almost identical margins (about 2%). But in Union County, Carter beat Reagan in 1980, 10,073 (51.2%) to 9,012 (45.8%); whereas in 2012, Romney carried the county 61,107 (64.5%) to 32,473 (34.3%). Note both the incredible increase in the total vote, and in the strong Republican trend.
NC's central cities are trending Democratic, and black turnout in particular has surged, so the last two Presidential races have been close here. On the other hand, the Republicans (and, by and large, the conservative wing thereof) has taken firm control of the State Senate and State House. If NC is becoming a purple state, it isn't because of our transplants.
Should be a requirement when moving from a stupid state to a Conservative state: Leave tour politics where you came from.
And you are NEVER allowed to utter the phrase: “the way we did it back home”