Posted on 10/14/2008 6:51:30 AM PDT by gridlock
Even New Jerseyans can't stand living in New Jersey, according to a new poll that said nearly half of adults residing in the Garden State want to pull up stakes.
The Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll, released Wednesday, found 49 percent of those polled would rather live somewhere else.
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Poll participants cited high property taxes (28 percent), the cost of living (19 percent), state taxes (5 percent) and housing costs (6 percent) as the main reasons they want out. The poll also found that 51 percent of those who expressed a desire to leave planned to do so, with adults under the age of 50 making between $50,000 and $100,000 the most likely to flee.
"If you have the ability to leave and you don't see any possibility for change with the way the state is run — and that's the No. 1 issue here — you have to vote with your feet," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
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"It's no wonder that New Jersey is a national joke," he said. "We've done it to ourselves with these just positively irresponsible policies."
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That migration depleted the state's tax coffers of an estimated $10 billion in personal income and $680 million in sales tax, according to the Rutgers report.
"This really illustrates among a lot of other things that the public has thrown up their hands," Murray said. "They don't feel that there's anything they can do that would change the situation."
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"One can only hope that the pendulum will stop swinging this way and start moving back the other way 'cause if it doesn't, you're going to see 9 million people suffer," he said.
"Or you're going to see the last person over the Delaware turn out the lights."
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Guard towers and barbed wire are the only solutions.
NORTH, to Alaska!
That was then. It's probably pretty much everyone with a job and who pays taxes who wants to leave now.
Come to Alabama friend. We will never be blue.
Agreed. Many great parts of NJ. I lived there for a number of years and loved it. However, the price of everything from the cost of living to taxes makes it damn near impossible to do so. Not to mention the insanity of them voting in the same crooks around the clock.
Ahem...cough...cough.
I’ve been packed for at least 15 years now!
I just hope the Demcorats that leave that state go to another Democrat state. They’ve managed to pollute what were strong Republican states when they move enmasse. Look at Colorado and Nevada out west with all the Commies that move in from the Peoples Republic of Californina that have fled that sinking state. New Hampshire with all the whacks moving from the land of the Kennedys.
You also have plenty of New Yorkers also infecting N. Carolina and Georgia.
Our tourist areas are nice, just like Mexico or Jamaica.
Stay away. It’s not safe.
Did I mention I gave my six year old a .22 rifle and a Torah for her birthday?
...and the other half is already living here in North Carolina.
Half of Jersey adults don’t like it there??? Well, then, STOP RE-ELECTING THE SAME CORRUPT LIBS WHO MAKE SO MISERABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE! For God’s sake. Like a teenager, who can’t stand his cluttered, messy bedroom, and wants to sleep in the clean guest room.
“Come to Alabama friend. We will never be blue.”
Georgia said that. Then Ted Turner moved his operation to Atlanta. It’ll be blue in 10 years.
Texas said that. Then Gov. Good Hair invited all the Katrina trash to Houston.
But some of what you see is more conservative people moving out of some of these states, because of the changing social and political climates. The anecdotal evidence is that many more conservative leaning people have left California in recent years. The legislature is solid leftist Democrat. The state is reliably Democrat in presidential elections, which wasn’t always the case.
Stay where you are and fix what is broken. Thats whats wrong with alot of America. People make a mess and then run off only to do it again somewhere else. Start that crap down here and we’ll Hang you...well, we will be pissed off at you anyways.
Never forget that when the people of NJ wanted a change, and Toricelli was polling behind the GOP nominee in the election polls, the NJ Supreme Court ignored very explicit election laws and allowed the Dems to put a more popular name on the ballot (former rep Lautenberg). The Dems won, and NJ got more of the same.
:-P
That is pretty much the day I gave up on this state. Now I am just crossing days off the calendar...
The last decent Governor of New jersey was Charles Edison (son of Tom) in the 1940's, an early sponsor of Young Americans for Freedom. He was a Democrat. NJ has had a few chances since then, but has kicked it away every time.
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