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Originally Posted by ssiredfish
There are a few but it is a select few. Always welcome new folks to the area provided they can leave a few things back home. Their driving, attitude and comparisons to the north. We aint got time for that.....haha
The finance thing I hear alot. Seems to be the common factor. A friend of my wife with the same degree is makin 5x as much as she does livin in NYC. My wife was all down and out until her friend was discussing finances with her. 70K for an apartment, 15K for parking, 400-500 a week on meals?!?!?!?! I told my wife her friends makin it, she just aint keepin it.
Id rather be poor and happy than rich and miserable(and snowed in) any day, lol......
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Last year I bought a very nice 3 bedroom ranch home, full finished basement, half acre of land, dry, non-flood zone in one of the better areas of NJ. Price was about $350K. Taxes are 8.5K a year. I could take that same money and go South and get almost double the size of the house and land, with taxes less than 1K a year.. But I could never make the kind of money I was making here down there. So we'll wait till my wife retires, and then we'll probably move a little further south.
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