After having driven through New Jersey twice this weekend, north-to-south and south-to-north (and paying dearly in tolls for that privilege.... just where does all that money go I wonder?), I don't know why anyone stays there.
I don't know why anyone stays there.
Come for the scenery, stay for the aroma.
New Jersey is owned and operated by the Mafia. From the Governor's mansion on down; the most corrupt tax-rigged state in the union.
"After having driven through New Jersey twice this weekend, north-to-south and south-to-north (and paying dearly in tolls for that privilege.... just where does all that money go I wonder?), I don't know why anyone stays there."
Because, despite all the New Jersey jokes (which I guess are hilarious if your IQ is in the double digits), NJ is a great place to live in many respects.
It has some very bad defects (read Newark, Camden, the state government etc.) but overall, it is a beautiful state with generally nice people, fantastic history, a very good business economy, with lots of things to do, see and experience.
If you are bored in New Jersey, you must be dead (and therefore voting democrat)
Most of the State is beautiful. You really don't get a sense of it from the Turnpike or the Parkway. That being said, a lot of us are trapped here by high paying jobs. My wife and I both have nice jobs-the problem is that it keeps getting eaten up by sprialling property taxes, car insurance, etc...The only way to escape is to build up enough equity in your home and then moving someplace nice and affordable like Tennessee.