tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67880058323962108992011-11-27T18:27:49.006-05:00A place for those that have left the Garden State behind, as well as those that are contemplating doing so, to share their thoughts.Citizen Chinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559132008991595830noreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788005832396210899.post-31794720102639324572009-12-24T10:11:00.000-05:002009-12-24T10:11:32.338-05:00

"We have been asked a lot whether we expected that states like New York and California would do so badly in the happiness ranking. Having visited and lived in various parts of the US, I am only a little surprised. Many people think these states would be marvellous places to live in. The problem is that if too many individuals think that way, they move into those states, and the resulting

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From The Record Corporate executives looking to cut costs in the wake of the recession are more likely than ever to flee or avoid New Jersey, according to Princeton firm that specializes in helping companies relocate. The Boyd Co. Inc. on Monday released a study that found North Jersey is the fifth most expensive place to site a corporate headquarters, costing $27.9 million a year to operate.

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From U.S. News and World Report If you're nearing retirement or are considering relocating to a different state any time in the next several years, you need to do some careful thinking about how the recession and housing downturn have affected the finances of different states. The National Governors Association says it will take a decade for states to recover. Many states have had little choice

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Local N.J. officials at annual conference focus on spending, not saving, taxpayer money Much of the focus for New Jersey’s local government leaders at their annual conference in Atlantic City this week is on spending money — despite property tax bills that are at an all-time high. Attendees are greeted inside the convention center by a sea of booths advertising products and services that are

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From The Star Ledger Only a little more than a third of New Jerseyans think living in the state will get better over the next decade, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton poll out today. While 35 percent believed things would improve in the next 10 years, the poll found 41 percent believe conditions will stay the same and 19 percent think they will get worse. Following Gov.-elect Chris Christie’s

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Democrats discuss having Corzine resign early, then replace Lautenberg STATEWIDE -- In what could become the highest profile game of political musical chairs in the state, Democratic sources claim they are considering replacing U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg with outgoing Gov. Jon Corzine. It would work like this: Corzine would resign prior to January, when Republican Christopher Christie takes

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From The Star Ledger: New Jersey remains among the top 20 states where carbon-dioxide emissions are steadily increasing, according to a state-by-state assessment of pollution contributions released yesterday by the group Environment New Jersey. The 63-page analytical study, compiled from U.S. Department of Energy data and international sources, ranks the Garden State at 16 among the other 50

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North Dakota reels in a New Jersey native While in North Dakota, Lasky acquired a motorcycle and began exploring the state. He fell in love with the Badlands, and he has a ready answer for friends in New Jersey who ask about the cold and question what there is to do. His parents came to share his appreciation for North Dakota after paying a visit. "The people are just amazing in Minot and North

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From Reason: Over the weekend, I spoke at a conference in Philadelphia hosted by Students for Liberty, an impressive, rapidly growing national affiliation of libertarian-minded college students. One of the other speakers was Bob Bowdon, the occasional "reporter" for the Onion News Network (where he goes by the character name Brian Scott) and host of a forthcoming talk show on PBS. Bowdon was

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Christie inherits a state that's in arguably the worst financial condition in its 233- year history. Last year's $7 billion shortfall, closed with stimulus dollars and tax hikes, has resurfaced at an even larger $8 billion for 2010. Residents face crippling property taxes (an average of $7,000 per capita), high income and sales taxes, $45 billion in debt and the net loss of 400,000 people since

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From the National Association of Realtors: Metropolitan Area Existing-Home Prices and State Existing-Home Sales  Metropolitan Area / Q3 Year over Year Price Decline Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ / Down 6.1% Atlantic City, NJ / Down 10.4% New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA / Down 14.1% New York-Wayne-White Plains, NY-NJ / Down 13.9% NY: Edison, NJ -/ Down 8.9% NY:

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PSE&G cleared for additional NJ solar projects NEWARK, N.J. - New Jersey's largest utility has received permission from state regulators to finance another 51 megawatts of solar power , enough energy for more than 45,000 homes. The Garden State is second only to California, with 100 megawatts of installed solar generating capacity. Tuesday's decision means Public Service Electric and Gas

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From WHYY, audio link available Sprawling commercial developments across New Jersey have raised concern from legislators that towns are losing their green space, and traffic is becoming congested. Nearly five years ago, New Jersey passed a law allowing townships to adopt a program to help them mitigate sprawl, but only one town has taken advantage of it. Transcript: Under the program Transfer

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Witty article written by Amy Alkon about how she confronted rudeness in our society. The stereotype that New Jerseyans are a rude bunch does contain at least a grain, or two or three, of truth. There are some good pointers here on how to deal with and help neutralize rudeness. I See Rude PeopleThe fortysomething woman came within inches of crashing her Volvo station wagon into my car while

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In 1990, 20 percent of the nation’s pharmaceutical jobs were in New Jersey. It now has 13 percent of them. From 2007 to 2008, the state lost 10 percent of its jobs in the high-paying industry. Now a wave of pharmaceutical consolidations involving New Jersey firms, including Pfizer Inc.’s purchase of Wyeth in Madison and Merck & Co. Inc.’s purchase of Schering-Plough Corp., headquartered in

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Paul Mulshine sums it up perfectly This article in the City Journal titled "The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm" is about California. But the author's conclusions apply equally to New Jersey. William Voegeli makes the same point that I have been making for years: Don't believe politicians when they get up on their hind legs and tell you your state has high taxes because it

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 From Business Week  A full-fledged job recovery seems to be a long way away. But some metros are poised for significant job growth by the first quarter of next year. BusinessWeek.com teamed up with Moody's Economy.com to identify America's 25 next recovering job markets. These metros were ranked based on Economy.com's projected job growth in the first three months of 2010. Topping the list is

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 Link to article TRENTON, N.J. - For the first time, New Jersey consumers can access detailed information on patient safety at hospitals throughout the Garden State. State health officials recently released a report that shows each hospital's patient safety performance and incidence of serious medical errors , such as operating on the wrong body part or leaving a sponge or instrument inside a

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Considering that New Jersey has been losing something like 5,000 - 10,000 jobs per month over the past year, this is a sobering forecast: The numbers from the Rutgers Study apparently indicate that job growth for the period encompassing the years 2008 to 2028 will only amount to 6,550 annually, compared with the administration’s previous projection of 54,000 over the same period. Governor

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The Happiest: 1. Nebraska 2. Iowa 3. Kansas 4. Oklahoma 5. Montana The Most Miserable: 46. Idaho 47. Oregon 48. Arizona 49. California 50. Florida Mainstreet.com Happiness Index: October 2009 How Happy Is Your State? The newest installment of the Happiness Index has arrived and residents of the Midwest will be happy to learn that their strangle-hold on the top spots remains intact. There

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The corrupt should not have their pay and benefits cut off Oh, really? Is there anything else we can can do to ease the punishment for these poor, poor souls and continue to make corruption a crime worth pursuing? Poll: Half of residents surveyed say Jersey political corruption has no equal It is just shocking, shocking, but apparently New Jersey's residents believe the state's politics is so

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Reclusive bobcat caught on camera in Water Gap park (George Draney Photography) He had been stalking the big cat for months and finally had the shot of a lifetime --photo shot, that is. That's how landscape photographer George Draney explained getting a shot of an elusive wild bobcat in Warren County. Draney, 60, of Washington in Warren County, said he photographed the bobcat on Oct. 21 in

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Fixing New Jersey's tax burden will take a higher power's help Republicans and Democrats are spinning their own interpretations of what Tuesday's elections meant on the national level. Let them spin. The real answer will depend on what the victors will actually be able to do with their victories. We are especially interested in how our neighbor, New Jersey, makes out. It is easy to make fun

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Link To Article "Financial resources are yet another of the critical ingredients that turn policy into results that matter in the lives of a state's population, from environmental protection to education, health and transportation," writes the Pew Center on the States in Grading the States 2008. "To gauge how well a state is functioning in the Money category, the Government Performance Project

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Bye Bye, Hudson County! Click on the link below for an interactive map which displays the effects of sea level rise on the NY Metro area. New Jersey Sea Level Rise Map In the worst case scenario, the melting of the entire Greenland Ice Sheet, towns as far inland as the Passaic River would be inundated. I guess other smaller business hubs, such as Parsippany, Morristown, and Mount Olive might

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Tell us what your plan to remedy New Jersey's many ills would be. Among the issues that need attention: -Property Taxes -Environmental Problems -Traffic -Crumbling Infrastructure -Inner City Decay -Crime -Whatever else you feel needs to be adddressed

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Corzine. Christie. Daggett. In the big picture, in the grand scheme of NJ politics and life, I think they are at best a difference of a few degrees. Does anyone believe that any of these three will be able to make any significant difference in the next four or eight years? I think the best we can hope for is that one of them is able to plant some seeds of change, to steer the ship just a degree

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It sounds like once students see the world beyond NJ, they're not too likely to return to home. N.J. losing out on $6B a year when college students flee state When it comes to K-12 education, New Jersey is usually A-1. The state is the nation’s yearly valedictorian, or salutatorian. Certainly never less than fifth in the class. So why then is New Jersey at the bottom of so many high education

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Spotted this in a reply to a Wall Street Journal article detailing out migration from New York. Outmigration is also a problem for New Jersey. Rutgers economists James Hughes and Joseph Seneca calculate the Garden State lost nearly a quarter of a million people between 2002 and 2006. People are also leaving the region. New Jersey, once a destination for New Yorkers wanting to move to the

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=an.3m20Wu9A8  Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- New Jersey, whose jobless rate is at a 32-year high, will take a decade to get back to pre-recession employment levels, according to economists at Rutgers University. The most densely populated U.S. state will take until 2019 before the number of people in work surpasses the 2007 peak, said Nancy Mantell,

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According to Business Week... Surprise! We're Number One! We're Number One! Oh, wait a minute...#1 isn't always good New York-White Plains, N.Y.-Wayne, N.J.Homes affordable to median-income families: 21.2% Affordable homes in Q2 2004: 15.2% Median home price: $419,000 Median family income: $64,800 Unemployment rate: 9.6% Manhattan is world famous for its culture and nightlife, but living in

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From the movie 25th Hour. This monologue often comes to mind, either when talking to those who express incredulity about leaving NJ, or just when daydreaming about life beyond the state's borders. We'll drive. Keep driving. Head out to the middle of nowhere, take that road as far as it takes us. You've never been west of Philly, have ya? This is a beautiful country Monty, it's beautiful out

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This is another common statement I hear when discussing life in NJ versus elsewhere in the U.S. I take it to mean one of two things: 1) NJ has a particular type of character, unique unto itself (TRUE!) 2) Everywhere else lacks character (FALSE!) Now #1 I can't argue. NJ (like most places) has a vibe and feel that is all it's own. We could discuss for days if not weeks what it entails, but

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This is a chance for all of the die-hard, dyed-in-the-wool New Jersey lifers to explain why they would never consider leaving The Garden State. Aside from the obvious (family, friends, career), what are the ties that bind you to NJ?It's the pizza, isn't it?

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1996 - 2008. That is the span of time that it took for approximately three miles of highway on Rt. 3 from Little Falls to Wayne to be expanded and paved. This included the reconstruction of three small overpasses along the way. Twelve years! This works out to one mile of highway being completed per four years.That's an extreme example, but it seems to be a familiar story throughout New Jersey.

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So says Children's Health Magazine. Does anyone want to attempt to defend this? I'm not suggesting that it's one of the worst places to raise a family, but it certainly doesn't strike me as being among the best.http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2009/10/magazine_names_jersey_city_top.htmlChildren's Health magazine, published by Rodale, named Jersey City the 13th best place to raise a family. The

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If you were to leave NJ, where would you consider moving to, and for what reason(s)? Have you spent any significant amount of time in this place? If so, please tell us what the place is all about; the people, history, geography, taxes, traffic, etc - give us the juicy details.

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In a state with traffic as heavy as ours, and which prides itself on being modern and progressive, why is it that we are stuck with traffic lights from the 1950's?First, why do we have so few traffic lights with left hand turn signals? How many of you have been in this situation? You're at a light either waiting to make a left hand turn or behind someone who is trying to do so. The light turns

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This article is from two years ago. The point, however, still stands and I doubt that the results would be much different if a poll were conducted today. The cost of living is no better and probably worse by many measures, especially considering rising unemployment and wage cuts due to the weakened economy.The only exception I can think of is that housing costs have come down a bit, making houses

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NJ gets a double wallop when it comes to air pollution. Not only do we generate much of it ourselves from transportation, factories, and our own power plants, but we also have to deal with pollutants, specifically mercury and particulate matter, carried over from coal burning plants in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky.Regardless of the source, our poor air quality leads to both chronic and acute

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If you're thinking about moving out of NJ, you have plenty of company.http://www.njbiz.com/article.asp?aID=79289The number of people leaving New Jersey continues to beat the number coming into the state, based on an annual report by Mayflower Transit LLC.Through August 2009, 58.6 percent of the New Jersey moves handled by the St. Louis-based national moving company were “outbound,” or exiting the

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What aspects of life in NJ give you reason to consider moving away to another state? For how long have you been contemplating a move, and how likely are you to actually get up and do it? Aside from family and career, is there anything about NJ that keeps you here and that makes the decision to move difficult?What destination (or destinations) do you have in mind, and what is it about that place

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Oftentimes, when discussing the thought of escaping from NJ, folks will throw up a barrage of reasons as to why that's just a very bad idea. Many of these reasons are almost like canned responses, as if they've been programmed into us. I refer to them as The Litany. Don't get me wrong, many if not most of these points do contain at least some shred of truth, but the weight of that truth varies

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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP -- In less than a month, Mike and Victoria Malinics, two lifelong Mercer County residents, will move across the river to Pennsylvania to pay half the property taxes on a bigger house. "We couldn't sustain the cost of living and provide for (our children)" said Mike Malinics, 37, adding that New Jersey "has become a case of overwhelming taxation without representation."

Citizen Chinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559132008991595830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788005832396210899.post-27744896243343687682009-10-13T22:48:00.000-04:002009-10-13T23:35:55.654-04:00

The idea of leaving NJ behind is not a new one. Most of us who live here have likely, at one time or another, heard a friend, relative, or co-worker (or even ourselves) declare that they'd love to get the hell outta Jersey! Surely greener pastures must exist. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways: High taxes, stifling traffic and ever present road rage, terrible roads with poorly placed

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