Posted on 07/28/2015 4:53:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
My wife and I lived in Bloomfield NJ from 1962 til 2002. We then moved to Belvidere NJ when we took in my elderly inlaws. My mother in law passed away last Nov. at the age of 100. Now circumstances (high cost of living in NJ) will drive us out. Even with all of the problems we have had a great life here. Where we live does not look like what people think NJ is. It is beautiful here. But we will have to go elsewhere.
I honestly don’t know, but it seems to me someone so invested in their father’s lifelong story and struggle would have something to say about the circumstances that prompted those drastic increases in taxes and costs to live would have something to say about the politics of all that, wouldn’t it?
Trying to tell these liberals, socialists and communists that high taxes means the total destruction of a civil society is an impossible task. The best thing to do is leave the state. Eventually, there won’t be any one to tax, and that’s exactly what they want to do. The only ones left in the state will be those being supported by the state that has no more money.
Yes...on the Delaware Memorial Bridge it costs nothing to go from DE to NJ, but it'll cost you $5 to leave NJ and get back to DE. At least it was $5 the last time I made the trip...since my folks died I have absolutely no reason to ever go to NJ again.
Government at all levels is dominated by the former 60's radicals who desperately wanted those jobs, and nearly devoid of the economically literate...who abhorred such jobs. The fix may eventually come when the radicals die off and are replaced by Reagan's generation. The job of conservatives is to expose and attack Communist thinking, wherever it is found. I don't think John and Mitch are up to it.
Born and raised in Leonia, NJ (1 mile from the GWB) and lived there most of my life. Despite a college degree and a job as a software engineer, I could not affort a house in that part of NJ (my wife and I were looking about an hour or so away from the area until we got fed up looking at the slim pickings that passed for 200K homes. In fact, just after we left, the Bergen Record newspaper had an article in it that was titled “The Last of the $300K Homes”).
In 2005, we moved to NC, bought a house for $172K (that would easily have sold for $750K in northern NJ at the time we bought it). Taxes on the house were under $1100 per year (we used to laugh at how our total mortgage payment would not have covered the monthyly tax bill on the house if it were in NJ!).
As I look at what I’ve just written, it saddens me. Critical life-choices now boil down to dollars and cents—nothing more. There are memories I have of my early life that are forever locked away (in some union boss’s cash box, no doubt), and exist in some past life, now gone, removed by a distance of almost 600 miles and thousands and thousands of dollars.
People in NJ have been voting themselves into financial oblivion for decades; they haven’t a clue what they are doing to themselves. They think they are “socking it to the rich.”
What an interesting narrative. The northern imports though are ruining NC politics too. I hoper your neighbors don’t tax away your prosperity.
One would think that Crispy Cream would understand that.
Has NJ ever elected anyone good? I understand one of Edison’s brothers was governor decades and decades ago.
Yea, I see; you’re just overwhelmed by the totalitarians in both parties.
Not yet...though I have remarked on a number of occasions that we didn’t move far enough south.
NC has gone for Obama twice!
BTW the only thing cheaper about living in NC is the cost of housing. Everything else is the same (gasoline costs more) and salaries are lower.
It’s the Borg thing...”Resistance is futile. You will be absorbed.”
Scott Garrett in the NJ 5th Congressional District is the only good representative NJ has had in my lifetime.
> People in NJ have been voting themselves into financial oblivion for decades; they haven’t a clue what they are doing to themselves. They think they are “socking it to the rich.”
I have a buddy who lives there that I talk to often. He told me that the state has gone nuts taxing everything and that everbody was abandoning ship and moving elsewhere. I think I know why now.
Just a guess here, but I bet since your escape you have on more than one occasion told others about how you voted, didn’t you?
That’s what I find curious about this particular story. Absolutely no mention.
RE: In 2005, we moved to NC, bought a house for $172K (that would easily have sold for $750K in northern NJ at the time we bought it). Taxes on the house were under $1100 per year (we used to laugh at how our total mortgage payment would not have covered the monthyly tax bill on the house if it were in NJ!).
Here’s a question for you -— I assume that you are still doing the same kind of job as you were doing in NJ ( i.e. software engineering ).
What are the salaries of software engineers in NC compared to those in NJ?
That affects cost of living as well doesn’t it?
Thanks.
Let’s look at the state of New York. Now the state of New York are touting their plan to lure businesses back into the state. NO STATE TAXES FOR THE FIRST 10 YEARS. Now, if getting rid of taxes means luring businesses in to the state, why is it too hard to imagine that lessening taxes on every body would improve the economy for every one? But, I’m afraid that this mental exercise would be too difficult for these people to comprehend.
Yep...problem is as my brother notes...all them Yankees come south and start making it like the liberal utopia they left. North Cakalacki, case and point!
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