Where are you guys from?

[Bensen]

i live in Bonn, that is very close to Koblenz, 30 min. by car. Koblent is a nice City !

[RodgerDodger]

i live in Bonn, that is very close to Koblenz, 30 min. by car. Koblent is a nice City !

Bonn has to be nicer than Jersey. Any place is nicer than Jersey. 
I bet you're thinking, "so what's wrong with New Jersey?"

"A recent poll found 28 percent of people wanting to leave NJ citing America's highest property taxes as the leading reason; 19 percent mentioned the state's generally high cost-of-living, with 6 percent citing housing costs and 5 percent citing state taxes.

Other top reasons for wanting to leave New Jersey include the weather, environment, longing for a change of scenery, overdevelopment, congestion and government corruption.

Half of those wanting to leave want to move to the Southeast, with Florida and North Carolina the most popular choices, the poll found."

[Bensen]

Hi RodgerDodger,

I hope the Casserole was not to bad ;-) (I read about that in another post yesterday)

Oh!
Bonn is also not the ceapest City (the City is kinda interessting, a lot of Traffic Jam, though).
The rents for a Flat are very high, as the whole life in Germany got
very expensive. For Example the Prices for Gasoline. ATM it's 6.6 Dollar per Gallon. That hurts a lot.

Ben

[Mike]

I was born in Moscow Russia and lived there for the first 5 or 6 years of my life. After that my family moved to Spokane Washington (big city on the east side of the state by Idaho)lived there til I was 12 then we moved to a little podunk town called Deer Park. I have been here ever since and its nice but its getting to crowded, the town has one African American family, lots of Mexicans working the farms in the area, some legal some not. I would love to move to Arkansas or Lousiana, some place warm. Last year we had a high of 119 in the summer then this winter we had a low of -20 so we get the extremes here.

[JDog]

Jersey is a fine state. The only bad part part of Jersey is the Turnpike that leads out of NYC.

[tomgallagher]

New Jersey is the most populated state in the union so I guess it can't be that bad. The grass is always greener but than you find out that it's not.

[Razor X]

Jersey is a fine state. The only bad part part of Jersey is the Turnpike that leads out of NYC.

You're forgetting about the overcrowding, high car insurance rates and confiscatory property taxes.

[Razor X]

The grass is always greener but than you find out that it's not.

There's definitely some truth in that statement.  My friend moved to Florida six months ago -- took a job there making more money and was all excited about the lower real estate prices and lower cost of living in general.  Lately he's been complaining that things aren't so cheap down there after all.

That being said, there's room for a lot of improvement in the Garden State.

[tomgallagher]

Well you have to specify which state you are talking about. North Jersey or South Jersey. Two different states....LOL

[baldbiker]

South Dakota.....

Spent a lot of time in Long Island New York - with family growing up.

[Tyler]

Jersey has high property taxes, but you don't pay any state income tax.  Just rent, and you'll be good.

[tomgallagher]

State income tax.....yeah we do.

[Razor X]

Jersey has high property taxes, but you don't pay any state income tax.  Just rent, and you'll be good.

Like heck we don't!

[RodgerDodger]

Well you have to specify which state you are talking about. North Jersey or South Jersey. Two different states....LOL

North vs South? No need to make a civil war out of this Tom. 
A Jersy boy is a Jersey boy, no matter where he lives. Right Razor?

Rodger, Over and Out! 

[BaldRob]

i live in Bonn, that is very close to Koblenz, 30 min. by car. Koblent is a nice City !

I spent five weeks in Andernach... what a great area of Germany!  I spent some time in Koblenz and Koln during my stay...