Posted on 06/29/2017 4:56:36 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Allison and Michael Busam recently took their three daughters, ages 11, 9 and 7, to a school fair near their home in Summit, N.J., where they found a teacher they knew sitting on the bench in a dunking booth. He was promptly dunked three times.
The soggy teacher told the Busams he was attending his reunion at Summit High School that night. Since moving to Summit from Hoboken 10 years ago, the Busams hear stories like that all the time.
“I know a million people here who grew up here,” Ms. Busam said.
Summit, a city of around 21,000 with a small-town feel in Union County, is a desirable place to live, with prices to match: About a third of the nearly 100 homes on the market are listed for $1 million to $2 million, and bidding wars are commonplace. But people who find their way to Summit, drawn by its highly regarded schools, good access to highways and convenient commute, often stay.
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Summit used to be a Republican city, but it is a swing area now.
I grew up in New York and have lived in NJ on and off over the years. I have never heard anyone in this state say “Joisey.” People hear in North Jersey talk like Anthony Bourdain, not Leo Gorcey. ;)
All the nice towns in NJ vote Democrat, just as all of the bad towns vote Dem. Sad to say that most GOP towns (and they are getting rarer and rarer) are meh (as are the RINOs who run such places).
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