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Poll Finds Almost Half of New Jersey Adults Want to Move Out of State
Fox News ^ | 9/14/09 | Sara Bonisteel

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; bluestates; corruption; corzine; nj2008
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New Jersey is not going to change. The Republicans that we do have are all whipped, wimpering get-along types who are happy to take to Local to Hell, instead of the Express. When I was a kid, I remember riding in the family car, packed up with all our stuff, past the sign that said "Will The Last Person Out Of Seattle Please Turn Out The Lights". It is about time we put a similar sign up near the Deleware Memorial Bridge.

It is very sad, because New Jersey does not deserve 90% of the bad press it gets. But it does deserve to fail because it continues to elect people who do nothing but raise taxes. Now Corzine wants to give back a couple of bucks in grants so people can use the money to pay their taxes. I know an old lady who swallowed a fly... I think she'll die!

1 posted on 10/14/2008 6:51:30 AM PDT by gridlock
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To: Admin Moderator

Sorry about the lack of a link on the last thread, AM

Rookie mistake...


2 posted on 10/14/2008 6:52:07 AM PDT by gridlock (I root for the Yankees. I have had just about enough of "Losing With Class"...)
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To: gridlock

Stay the hell where you are, because you’ll just take your really bad politics to other places and ruin them too.


3 posted on 10/14/2008 6:52:41 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: gridlock

4 posted on 10/14/2008 6:52:59 AM PDT by gridlock (I root for the Yankees. I have had just about enough of "Losing With Class"...)
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To: gridlock

Deja Vu all over again!............


5 posted on 10/14/2008 6:54:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
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To: gridlock

Lots of Jersey folks are moving down south. I have alot say that we aren’t as stupid as the Beverly Hillbillies led them to believe!


6 posted on 10/14/2008 6:54:27 AM PDT by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; Red Badger; nmh; MeanWestTexan; Jersey Republican Biker Chick; ...

Sorry about the last thread. Forgot to post the link!


7 posted on 10/14/2008 6:54:37 AM PDT by gridlock (I root for the Yankees. I have had just about enough of "Losing With Class"...)
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To: gridlock

Well, please don’t come south to North Carolina.

The yankee liberals are already ruining my lovely state.


8 posted on 10/14/2008 6:55:05 AM PDT by HanneyBean
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To: gridlock
They ruin their own freakin’ state with corrupt liberalism and then spread out like a plague on a map in one of those movies, and then it's goodbye CO, VA, IA, NC, and hello Obamanation.

When I'm King (negotiations are ongoing) anyone who flees a state will lose all voting privileges.

Actually, it won't matter. When I'm King all the liberals are gonna get from me is canteen of water and a half hour head-start.

9 posted on 10/14/2008 6:55:20 AM PDT by DHarry
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To: HanneyBean

Keep electing democrats = You pay.


10 posted on 10/14/2008 6:55:49 AM PDT by scooby321 (Cai)
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To: gridlock

I was wondering why the thread got pulled—thought perhaps one of the Moderators was an offended NJ-ite.


11 posted on 10/14/2008 6:55:58 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Jim DeMint: "If you took the name off the top, the Senate could pass the Communist Manifesto.")
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To: gridlock

They want to move out of the monster they helped created with their idiotic votes. They move on to red states and pollute those with their liberalism as well.


12 posted on 10/14/2008 6:56:02 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: gridlock

Mississippi is a HORRIBLE place to live.

Don’t come here!

You will hate it!

Racist and Klansmen behind every blade of grass!

Please don’t move here.


13 posted on 10/14/2008 6:56:38 AM PDT by Islander7 (This Atlas is shrugging!)
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To: DHarry

lol!


14 posted on 10/14/2008 6:56:51 AM PDT by RDTF (BO smells and eventually people do what's necessary to avoid it)
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To: snarkytart

Hell they could move to Michigan.


15 posted on 10/14/2008 6:57:02 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: MeanWestTexan

I was thinking of moving to Texas, but all my friends tell me that it is Hell on Earth, getting down to twenty below zero in the Winter and over a Hundred Forty in the Summer. They say you have cock-a-roaches the size of corgis and that the mosquitos carry away small children.

Can you confirm all this is true? If so, I may have to stay in New Jersey!


16 posted on 10/14/2008 6:57:03 AM PDT by gridlock (I root for the Yankees. I have had just about enough of "Losing With Class"...)
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To: gridlock

NOOOOOOOO!!!! If you come here, you’ll overpay for housing, driving up costs, and return to your old habits of voting for every bond issue that comes along and then wondering why your taxes are going up.


17 posted on 10/14/2008 6:57:11 AM PDT by weegee (In 2006 the Democrats took over Congress. 9% approval, $4gal gas, economy tanked. Had enuff CHANGE?!)
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To: gridlock

High taxes...high taxes....high taxes. Wait till the Messiah gets in, No matter what state you live in, you’ll be paying a lot higher taxes!.....


18 posted on 10/14/2008 6:57:15 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: gridlock
New Jersey - You vote for SOCIALISTS and you get SOCIALISM and then you are unhappy and want to leave.

Then you go to other states and vote for more socialists and repeat the whole cycle...

19 posted on 10/14/2008 6:57:45 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: jersey117

If things are so bad there why do they keep electing Democrat governors and state legislators? Why return far left liberals like LOUSE-enberg and Menendez to the US Senate??


20 posted on 10/14/2008 6:58:02 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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