Posted on 06/25/2017 6:43:47 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
EDGEWATER -- The bed is on an elevated bunk. Below the bed is a desk, dressed with items from college: clothes, books and accessories. The floor is barely visible beneath a slew of still-stuffed bags of clothes.
In 2016, Dina Bardakh, 23, uprooted her life from Hunter College, along with the degree in political science she received, and plopped down inside the 273-square-foot room of her mother's two-bedroom modest apartment alongside the Hudson River.
A year later Bardakh is still there, in the room she shares with her two teenage sisters.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
The poor kid is directionless. She has either not received good guidance or is not following good advice.
Step 1: Lose the ghetto hairstyle, replace it with something more “professional” and begin to dress like a professional would — even when dressed casually “off duty”.
Step 2: Come back for step 2 when step 1 is consistently being followed.
Wow, thought the picture was the Mom. Girl isn’t aging well to say the least.
Housing here in NJ is expensive because we have the highest property taxes in the nation; whether you rent or own, you’re paying.
The taxation on businesses is what is killing them; Mercedes moved its HQ from NJ to Atlanta recently, and those types of jobs are not coming back any time soon. The homes in the area of that HQ often have property taxes of more than $20K; I suspect many of those lost jobs resulted in foreclosures. You don’t just find another job like that very quickly here (if ever), and nobody else can afford to buy your home.
So true; this story is about recent college grads, but there are plenty of stories here about potential college students leaving as well. NJ is desperately trying to make college affordable for young “makers”, though we haven’t stooped as low as neighboring NY. They’ve set up a program of indentured servitude, by which people have to remain in NY on year for each year of “free” college tuition.
There is a massive exodus of white taxpayers from this region, and it is causing gubmint officials to reverse 50 years of policy and actually try to work with them.
Until recently we had much cheaper gasoline than our neighbors (for many years); that makes no sense. Nowadays, not so much.
The guy who wrote this will never escape NJ. Him is a moron.
No where in that article is the t-word used. Go figure.
So is his editor.
The taxation on businesses is what is killing them; Mercedes moved its HQ from NJ to Atlanta recently, and those types of jobs are not coming back any time soon. The homes in the area of that HQ often have property taxes of more than $20K; I suspect many of those lost jobs resulted in foreclosures. You don’t just find another job like that very quickly here (if ever), and nobody else can afford to buy your home.
Yeah, recent grads aren't the only ones leaving NJ.
Fake news at its best...taxes are the #1 factor in the collapse here, as businesses flee and are followed by productive people who want to work.
We always lost retirees, primarily due to weather, but now we’re losing them because they can’t stay in their homes - the taxes are too high for people on fixed incomes. Some of us are tied to careers and/or mortgages here, and just about every other “maker” is plotting an exit. The only ones that will remain are our government worker caste and welfare populations, both supported by our high taxes, and the imported foreigners to keep the schools and housing stock full.
There seems to be a genuine push to keep American students here for college; then they go to schools in other states they rarely come back.
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