Posted on 10/17/2007 12:56:36 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
TRENTON, N.J., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- About half of New Jersey residents wish they were living somewhere else, with most citing high living costs as the reason, a newspaper poll found.
Just over half of those who said they want to move expect to follow through on it, Gannet News Service reported.
Frederick Huffenus, a retired police officer, said he plans to move to North Carolina as soon as he gets a heart transplant. He has one son already there and hopes his two children still in New Jersey will also make the move.
"I love New Jersey," Huffenus said. "New Jersey has everything I want. ... But I want that peace of mind. You're penalized for living here all your life, you work hard and save all your life, and then you're taxed."
A Rutgers University study released last week found a sharp uptick last year in out-migration.
Fifteen percent of those polled picked Florida as their destination, while 14 percent would like to go to North Carolina. A total of 21 percent would like to make a short move to nearby Pennsylvania, Delaware or Maryland.
The University of Monmouth Polling Institute surveyed 801 adult New Jerseyans. The margin of error is 3.5 percent.
This is disheartening being from NC. These people come down here intent on recreating the hell hole they just left.
I’d love to know what the voting habits are among those who are so anxious to leave those high taxes behind.
Well we now know half of NJ is sane.
Huffenus.
The other half would be living in the City but can’t afford it.
As many have pointed out, liberals are like locusts.
The other half live off the ones that want out.
“This is disheartening being from NC. These people come down here intent on recreating the hell hole they just left.”
Sounds like illegal immigration!
Yes, taxes actually hurt the working class. Isn’t it amazing lefties? Your communist policies are pure BS!
Those who can relocate have already moved into my North Carolina neighborhood.
They have created the hell they live in.
Don't let them spread the very policies they voted for.
You stay right there! You probably vote Democrat and you get what you deserve.
Like what?! Corruption? High taxes? Second Amendment disfranchisement? I can't think of one reason I'd ever want to live there.
The problem is that whenever they move south all of the good BBQ restaurants convert to bagel shops.
Liberals never learn. They can’t make the connection between their failed policies and the dysfunctional societies they were forced to flee from.
Same thing is happening in NH. Except the liberals don't come from New Jersey, they come from Massachusetts.
We need to build a wall around NJ.
Try hanging some nooses, see if that helps.
But they continue to vote for Democrats or RINO’s year in and year out. Let them eat their cake! And please don’t move to Texas.
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