[Clemenza]

Actually NJ has the second or third highest per capita income and median income in the US (depends on the survey believe Virginia has the highest), higher than New York and also has a higher percentage of college graduates and advance degree holders than NY as well. And who has been driving NJ’s real estate into the stratosphere over the past year and a half? Good affluent liberals fleeing the city for Montclair, Maplewood, Summit, etc.

The idiotic stereotypes my fellow NYers (raised on Long Island and spent much of my adult years in the city) actually apply more to Staten Island or the south shore of Long Island rather than NJ. NJ is filled with progtards, Karens, illegals, and corrupt politicians but irony of ironies beats NY on many indices. The state of Bruce Springsteen died 40 years ago and was only a small part of my current state of residence.

[from occupied ga]

NJ and the NJ stassi take a dim view of the right to keep and bear arms. that alone is enough to sour me on it, but wait there’s more - NJ has the 7th highest overall tax burden in the USA and according to the web NJ has the highest number of speed traps of any state although from personal observation I think SC and VA might give it some competition there.