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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Native Washingtonian here, so maybe I am biased, but everyplace I've been in New Jersey just seemed dingy and lower class, and all anybody did for fun was go to NYC.  It's like there is nothing else to do.  To get a coffee, I had to go to some nasty A&P.  Ugh.  No way. [/quote]

You have obviously never been to one of the many charming towns in NJ.

OP, remember the TV show Ed, about a guy moving back to an idyllic, quirky Midwest town, high on charm.   All the filming of the town scenes were NJ towns.  Much of the intro was filmed in Westfield, but there were other towns too.  I never knew there were such charming towns until I married into family that lived up there.  I have never seen a charming town around here come close.  There are other things I like about DC, but it is not true that it is all "dingy and lower class".[/quote]

I have family in the Far Hills area.  There are beautiful areas filled with horse farms, and some nice small quaint little older "villages", but unless you can live in the areas that are the equivalent of Middleburg here, anything like a town is a little dingy, even in the "nice" areas.  I always say that there's nothing wrong with New Jersey that a nice coat of paint wouldn't fix.  I don't know if it's the harsher winters, or what, but the building stock is older (not "charming" older, just "old") and there just doesn't seem to be the pressure up there to make things look well kept. )

As mentioned by a pp, the tax situation is exacerbated by the fact that the townships are crazy tiny, and each supports it's own city government.  You can drive five miles and drive through three "townships."  I think Gov. Christie tried to push to consolidate some of them, but there was strong opposition by all the entrenched interests that love having their own little fiefdoms.

i wouldn't hate living there, but I've spent a lot of time in some of the most beautiful parts of New Jersey, and I've never felt a desire to live there.   [/quote]

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