Life in San Diego County ain't all bad. Certainly living so close to the Mexican border isn't the best part of it. I'm actually surprised to hear the problems we have here are happening in states like NJ.
btw...I love Northern NJ. I have family in Vernon Twp. It's quite the contrast from what I have here in East San Diego County, aka, northern Tijuana. They have black bears traversing through their yards. We have ILLEGAL aliens.
Vernon is in the “American quarter” in NJ; beautiful country. I live in the “International Quarter” (people from literally everywhere, though mostly Asians & Hispanics) directly between Newark & Jersey City. Until ten years ago I’d never met a Mexican (though’s we’ve had South & Central Americans here for decades); now they’re all over. NJ and NY both have a lot of the same problems California has, for the same reasons: If you tax nad regulate people & companies out the wazoo, they leave for a better business/tax climate; if the only way to prevent the complete abandonment of the state is to actively attract illegals, throwing out any laws in the process, then so be it. They thought that would keep at least the gubmint workers on the job, though now they’re realizing there is no tax base in illegals. Working under the table generates no income tax, and living in illegal apartments generates no property tax; it just makes life unbearable for the remaining Americans. This place now looks a lot like the places these illegals fled from.