Posted on 11/29/2018 4:59:14 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
>>In NJ, $200,000/year household income is pretty much middle class<<
Solution: leave NJ.
I mean NJ doesn’t offer a lot compared to California (I grew up in CA and worked in NJ for over a year). NJ is ... OK. Ghastly humid summers and snow and freezing winters. Nothing to hold you there except the constant barrage of NY based TV and radio reminding you that you are an entire state that is a suburb of NYC.
Nephew’s finally out of his south-Jersey parents’ house and starting his first full-time post-college job - 70k with a national accounting firm - in Washington - got caught going back to DC after the Thanksgiving weekend when the Delaware Memorial Bridge was closed Sunday night because of a gas leak at a nearby refinery - took him six hours to get home - may never come back to his parents again......
I mov d 3000 miles away
Not an option
I’ll never move back east
Too boring
The problem is the opportunities are elsewhere; NJ is a perfect storm of high costs of living occurring while employers flee, with illegal immigration used as a tool to keep the public school industry churning while whites evacuate. Colleges are offering scholarships to white males again - THAT IS HOW BAD IT HAS GOTTEN.
NJ has mountains, beaches, farmland, and forests within a short distance of each other - there is a reason the state developed as it did. Until recently, the climate of south Jersey was similar to that of the Carolinas (now it is a bit colder). The most destructive element, similar to other business-unfriendly environments, has been decades of socialism with the bloated gubmint workforce that brings. It is simply unaffordable, and the future costs are even worse (the retirement benefits for the gubmint workforce).
Here in NJ billboards advertise out-of-state colleges at less cost for NJ residents than our own colleges. We are suffering a “brain drain” of young people because we already suffered a “jobs drain” of employers; there is little opportunity here in the private sector, so everyone wants a government job (and many get them, driving costs higher).
The generation ‘Z” at its finest
The cost of living based on total tax responsibilities is the determining factor. If a bank won’t give you a loan because their software shot up red flags because of your income versus responsibilities ratio, you’re cooked.
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