Yes, I do agree about Christie being so much better than the usual for you guys. You must feel surrounded up there. I live in Austin and I feel surrounded by fools here. There seems to be no end to the wrongheadedness when you have a large population of liberals.
About an hour to the west (in NW NJ) there is still Americans living in America; people originally fled there, but the housing market isn’t doing well because you are pretty far from jobs.