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Later, Jersey! Why people are leaving the Garden State in droves
New Jersey 101.5 (WKXW, Trenton) ^ | January 4, 2017 10:00 AM | Dennis (Malloy) and Judi (Franco)

Posted on 01/04/2017 3:59:19 PM PST by Olog-hai

For five straight years, a study by United Van Lines says that New Jersey is the state most abandoned in all of the country, meaning the biggest percentage of out-of-state moves that it does are from New Jersey — 63 percent to be specific.

We’ve spoken to so many listeners who have moved out of Jersey over the years that it was difficult to even begin a list of reasons, but here are some things we came up with, just to name a few:

  1. Property Taxes (obviously): When you talk to family and friends from out of town and realize that they are paying in a year what you’re paying in a month for your property taxes, it’s hard to think of not booking the next airplane or moving van out of here.
  2. Corruption: The only state in the country that allows the kind of double dipping and other public employment shenanigans that we do here in the state.
  3. Overregulation: Especially for small businesses, it’s difficult to get anything done in a state where there’s a rule and a fee for everything and almost everything is illegal. …

(Excerpt) Read more at nj1015.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: christie; exodus; gardenstate; migration; overregulation
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To: Fred Hayek

Yankees are the least of HOuston’s problems. Most of those migrate there from the other Southern states.


61 posted on 01/04/2017 5:16:28 PM PST by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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To: Olog-hai

So what has Governor Staypuff Marshmellow Man (aka Mr. Donut) done to reform his totally corrupt state?


62 posted on 01/04/2017 5:18:33 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Olog-hai

Those high property taxes are because you’re paying for the people who don’t pay.


63 posted on 01/04/2017 5:21:39 PM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I despise property taxes for this very reason. As far as I know there is nowhere in the US where you can ever truly own property.


64 posted on 01/04/2017 5:22:58 PM PST by suthener
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To: I want the USA back

If by “people who don’t pay” you mean the welfare voters for the Dems and RINOs that the same don’t want to have to pay in order to guarantee the votes.


65 posted on 01/04/2017 5:23:14 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Why no mention of crime - Organized, gangs, ethnic and drug, human trafficking etc.?

Why no mention of the deplorable state of education in the largely black cities?

Jersey is a pretty state. It’s the people, esp. the liberals and their “pets” who have crapped on it.


66 posted on 01/04/2017 5:24:06 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Olog-hai

Most property tax in my town goes to the bloated school budget and ridiculous amount of political hack education administrators


67 posted on 01/04/2017 5:31:42 PM PST by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: Olog-hai

My aunt and uncle left Jersey for North Carolina.


68 posted on 01/04/2017 5:32:39 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

There are lots of things that Trenton-based radio station aren’t mentioning or going to mention.


69 posted on 01/04/2017 5:33:23 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: gaijin

I even did it a second time, later on in the thread, wow..!


Don’t sweat it. The only people who do not make mistakes are those who do nothing.

I made a mistake by posting about it before reading further.

You do good work. Don’t let this bug you.


70 posted on 01/04/2017 5:36:29 PM PST by marktwain
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To: suthener

Some places in Alaska do not have property taxes.

Hyder, AK, is one of them. I went to visit. There are reasons the town is losing population.


71 posted on 01/04/2017 5:38:21 PM PST by marktwain
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To: Olog-hai

We left NJ over 20 years ago for all the reasons listed, plus jobs were very scarce, so took advantage of a transfer to Minnesota. It was better there, but have since moved to Texas where we’re VERY HAPPY. I’d never go back to NJ.


72 posted on 01/04/2017 5:47:54 PM PST by Just_Sue (I'm from Texas)
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To: Olog-hai
I lived there for 10 years (Monmouth County) but escaped in the late 70's. This is how I remember it:

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73 posted on 01/04/2017 5:56:33 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Vigilanteman

Maybe Upstate NY and the red bits of PA could secede from their respective states and then form their own.


74 posted on 01/04/2017 5:57:16 PM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: CodeToad

“His house is $900K with a $17k property tax. NJ is a terrible place financially to live.”

We just refinanced the home we built 32 years ago here in Northern California. The place “bank appraised” for $2 million+. Thanks to Proposition 13, our property taxes are only $7k. For us, California is financially a good place to live. That said, the RATS here are constantly trying to find ways to circumvent Prop 13, which is tough to do, since it was passed by a referendum. The real problem, the country over, is financing public screwels with the property tax. “Public Edumacation” should not be a property-related expense.


75 posted on 01/04/2017 5:58:41 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Vigilanteman

“In fact, a lot of us would like to vote Philadelphia out of the Commonwealth and force them on New Jersey.”

That’s a political process known as “$hit Aggregation!” Here in California, six of our northern counties are trying to band together with the southern tier of counties in Oregon to do just the opposite, “Free themselves from Liberal $hit” by forming an entirely new state.


76 posted on 01/04/2017 6:09:21 PM PST by vette6387
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To: gaijin

“Don’t know what’s wrong with me :(”

It is difficult to move from complex political problems to simple math problems. For example, I once moved from talking about the impossibility of reincarnation to the number of hours in a week. Yup. I could not add up the number of hours in the week quickly. Embarrassing.

People need to love America in order to understand that taxes and regulations should be lowered.


77 posted on 01/04/2017 6:10:46 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: from occupied ga

I guess some people never learn.


78 posted on 01/04/2017 6:29:42 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: from occupied ga

They ve moved into the Richmond Va. area, and voted Hillary. Pretty sad. They haven’t put 2 and 2 together that their voting habits destroyed the place they left.


79 posted on 01/04/2017 6:32:57 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: boomop1

Here in Virginia, I feel your pain.


80 posted on 01/04/2017 6:34:03 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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