South Orange, N.J. is a beautiful suburb, but it has high taxes due to how beautiful the homes are.
http://bestnjhomes.com/south-orange-nj.asp
South Orange and West Orange are the “good” Oranges. East Orange and Orange are nearly all AA and filled with crime, poverty, drugs and gangs. This article of course doesnt bother to tell us what the altercations n was about or why 300 youths decided to converge on S. Orange.
Essex County taxes are killer; productive areas are heavily taxed to support the ghettoes (where property taxes seem unchanged since the collapse 50 years ago). Any time tax increases in the ‘hoods are mentioned, the mayors rally against them saying they’ll hinder any “recovery” - which never happens anyway.