I met my wife in Atlanta in 2007. I was 36. Lived in Jersey all my life. Yep, it’s totally bad.
Homes are for sale everywhere. I guess people from NYC are moving in this area even more.
The one thing my parents have is a view and direct access to the beach.
My dad was a lineman for Jersey Central Power and Light for 35 years. Honorably discharged combat designated USMC Viet Nam Ribbon.
He grew up in Abury Park since 9.
I’m surprised I pried him out of Jersey. I think he is giving up,too.
Get this, my mom is a retired educator. She’s got 3 state pensions. She started off in admin. Then education. Then board. Picking up matching pension in each one.
The taxes in their municipality and state is almost 10k. 2400 sq ft house on 1/3 acre owned 50 years.
My taxes? 2,100. They went up because of that dang Braves Stadium. The one downtown just fine to lose in ;).
In the past 3 years or so, many more tri state area people have moved near me.
My polling station looked like the new part of Manalapan, NJ or Old Bridge,NJ. District 6 is so screwed if we dont recognize this. The this is Lucy McBeth seat now, she “lives” around corner from us.
Its Newts old seat. Kar Kar Handle are her way thru it and couldn’t manage to campaign.
A Stacy Adam’s personality can step right in. It will happen.
The apartments in or area are part of a ok school system, so you got a lot off “drop offs” at the bus stop. Those kids are from the inner city.
But, we are here. All good.
Take care.
One trend that has officials worried in both NY and NJ is the number of people who no longer wait for retirement to leave here; many now just wait until the last child finishes high school (not even college - they can go cheaper to better out-of-state schools as non-residents than they’d pay here to go as in-state residents. In response, NY offers “free tuition” - with the stipulation that you remain in the state after graduation for every year of tuition they’ve given you (basically indentured servitude to work it off, most likely in one of the crappy McJobs still left there) - or you pay it back. I’ve had several co-workers go down to the Carolinas or Florida after the last child graduates high school.
Young childless workers see no point in staying at all, except maybe family; the cost of living (especially taxes) are too high, from a time when we had better jobs around. They understand clearly that they are subsidizing the children of foreigners trafficked here to keep the schools open (because Americans have so few).