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To: 9YearLurker

I think a lot of shore homes damaged by Sandy weren’t owned by wealthy people at all; they were tax refugees from northeastern NJ who traded long commutes for a lower cost of living. Of course, on the news they show the multimillion oceanfront properties damaged (and those won’t end up looking ugly - they’d probably just be rebuilt better). The ones with huge stairways leading up to the front doors seemed more modest - and weren’t “on the beach”.

The Jersey Shore experienced a trend that also played out in western NJ where middle-class people fled there for lower costs and ended up rubbing elbows with year-round people of more limited means already living there; in western NJ there had been seasonal vacation homes in the woods and hills that were being replaced by year-round homes for those tax refugees (as well as some wealthy people).


154 posted on 01/29/2022 6:57:38 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Jersey Shore is different than CT’s “Gold Coast”.


161 posted on 01/29/2022 7:07:32 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: kearnyirish2; 9YearLurker
There was a similar migration about 15 years ago, where people in/near NYC moved to the Poconos. They wanted to get away from inner-city elements etc and have a home and "safety." To get that, parents were getting up at 4am, shuffling their kids to local parents' homes for handoff to school, taking a bus to Port Authority, and getting home at 7pm.

Unfortunately, the kids with those "elements" attached to them were ALSO part of this migration. That made for easy preying on the good kids, who were parentless from 2:30-7pm. The result was a spike in Pocono gang activity. In certain cases the gangs were in residential developments where local police couldn't get in because the developers told them "nothing here..move along...we got it" because they didn't want this problem getting out in the open.

192 posted on 01/29/2022 8:50:42 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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