Quoted from spfxted:

Don't let the door hit ya on the way out...

Quoted from Vic_Camp:

I don't know how much you are willing to spend on a home, but plan on a 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, one car garage going for around $400,000 to $500,000 with taxes near $12,000 per year.

Quoted from Boatcat:

Ditto! Couldn't get out fast enough when I retired. Taxes and insurance are wayyy too high! IMO, NJ's biggest problem: Too many public-sector pensions to pay as boomers retire. Good luck with that!

Quoted from Gatecrasher:

You can find someone who says the same thing about any state they live in but for every one that feels like you do about Jersey, I can probably find ten that feel the opposite.
To each his own I guess. All I know is of all the states we try to recruit engineers from, New Jersey is one of the most difficult to try and lure them away from. Some you can throw all the money in the world at and they still won't move. Especially guys from South Jersey. It's weird.
I had no problem moving away but I was single at the time and was made a very attractive offer financially. But I do miss Jersey sometimes, especially in the summer. Some good times were had there.
But lets get something straight. Each state has it's iconic foods but freakin' White Castle and Krispy Kreme are about as much "Jersey" as escargot and wonton soup. White Castle is a Wichita, Kansas icon and Krispy Kreme is known as "The Doughnut of the South" headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They both have restaurants all over the world and saying you miss New Jersey because of either one is almost as bad as saying you miss New Jersey because of McDonalds or Burger King. lol
New Jersey's iconic foods are the utterly fantastic subs and hoagies as well as their hot dogs and Italian cuisine. Northern Jersey tends to lean towards submarines, grinders and hot dogs (New York City influence) while South Jersey is more hoagies, cosmos, cheese steaks, and other Philly-influenced delicacies.
It's sort of like when I used to live in Williamsport, PA. There are no shortage of awesome sub shops and pizzerias and my favorite is "Marinos Original Italian Pizza" in Newbury. Everything they make is the bomb from their lasagna and spaghetti to their strombolis and subs. I remember there was an empty building next to the restaurant and someone decided to open a freakin' Subway there. So here you had what was probably one of the finest Italian sub shops in the entire nation and someone decides to open a Subway right next door. I thought the Subway would last maybe a week before it would go bankrupt but you know what? Dumbass college students and other idiots flocked to the Subway.
I used to walk into Marinos and tell the owners that I couldn't believe any moron would choose a crappy Subway sub over the real thing! Especially when they cost about the same! Unfreakin believable! Of course, a lot of the morons never tried Marinos because if they did it would have been a no-brainer. If you were to place a Subway sub next to a Marinos it would look like placing one of those $1 McDonalds hamburgers next to your all-time favorite bar burger.
Anyway, Marinos moved to another location and are still the first place I go when in town. But that lousy Subway is still there next to where Marinos used to be, I guess to feed the cretins and mentally deficient.

Quoted from Don44:

Rutgers ain't too shabby. Princeton is not an option for most