To the poster below: the entire state is corrupt (OK- only the 8 major counties that make up 90%+ of the population are corrupt). Cost of living, you got to be kidding me. Taxes - among the highest in the country with the laziest gov\'t, city/municipal employees I have ever experienced. Quality of life - lets see, traffic jams everywhere, angry drivers behind the wheel, grocery stores that rival eastern europe, a healthcare systems that rivals Mississippi.
The topography is fair at best, suburbs are a joke (trust me, I live in one of the fancy ones) and the people are about as shallow and superficial as they come (ok- I will conceed all the \"deep\" liberals with their vanity, fancy cars/cloths who supposidly care about the downtrodden are an east coast phenomenon).
CULTURE - what a joke, the culture is in NYC. There is no culture in NJ. Tell me about your orchestra, art museum, theatre and don\'t go blowing smoke about NJPAC - its nothing to write home about.
Jersey is a suburb of Manhattan. Take away NYC and Jersey is nothing.
Ask your co-workers if they would leave given the opportunity. Then, let me know what % say yes and furthermore, let me know what % of those that say yes have lived somewhere else in the country beside this third world sewer.
You proceed to call New Jersey \"corrupt,\" as if the entire state is corrupt, and there is no corruption anywhere else in the world. Then you go on to say that everyone at the shore is \"angry\" and that New Jersey is a \"miserable\" place to be. Then you proceed to throw out a bunch of ridiculous made-up statistics about how 60 percent of people would leave if they could and the remaining 40 percent would have \"greasy hair.\"
In short, what you are saying is, I don\'t care about facts or what other people think. All I care about is my narrow worldview based upon an endless list of stereotypes. My conclusion: You would complain about things wherever you were.
Only Texas and California have more towns than New Jersey on Money magazine\'s 100 Best Places to Live in 2006. The rankings are based on housing costs, crime, economy, schools, ease of living, weather, taxes, culture, interviews with local leaders, and visits by Money staff to the towns.
Let me predict your retort, based on your method of argument: But magazines always make things up willy-nilly.