Problem is you can’t draw that line by county. Grew up touching TR.

Southern Ocean County I’ve experienced “lawnmower racing” fueled by everyone drinking home made moonshine out of mason jars.

That shit does not happen in the northern half.

Winning ticket sold at Montvale 7/11 https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/pascackvalley/news/montvale-7-eleven-sells-winning-lottery-ticket/857387/

Late 90's I was 24 when I finished at Rutgers, which I'd mostly paid for myself with loans and working nights at UPS. I moved back home for just under 3 years, so I was 27 when I finally moved out and to get married. Those three years sucked due to my parent's financial problems and my younger brother's mental health issues.

I was making about $36k a year back then, my wife was just graduating, still working as waiter. Our first apt in Burlington Country Area was $600 a month, we both had newish Ford Escorts that we were paying about $300/mo each.

If anyplace should be labeled CUM on a map, it should be Hawaii.

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Upon further review, this is not an abbreviation, but just taking the first 3 letters of each county

If you live in NY and work in NJ you will pay too much for housing.

If you MUST be in NY be really careful what Queens neighborhood you move to as a bunch aren't super accessible to public transit.

Why would you move to Brooklyn or Queens if you are looking for a job in NJ? That is an absolutely horrible commute. Find the job first and then decide where to live. Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark are the cities with the most abundant public transit.

Grew up just outside TR. it absolutely does. Felt the “same” with everything up to about Woodbridge. Start heading south of TR into Lacey and south THEN shit starts getting weird.

Right? In any other state, you'd get out of the car and enjoy the full view without a window in the way.

Very witty, Wilde lol

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I moved out in 2003 right after college with a platonic male roommate who was a friend from college (I’m female). I was making 25k, he made slightly more. We got an apartment in Hoboken for $1400 per month. My parents did help me out with rent.

About a month into living together, that platonic male roommate and I started dating. Happy to say 20 years later we are still together, happily married, and have a 10yo. We now own a home in Bergen County.

After our crappy 2br in Hoboken, we upgraded to a nicer 1br in Hoboken. Then moved to Edgewater. Then a townhouse, and finally purchased our own home. I obviously make considerably more than 25k now haha.

Jim Dandys in Nutley

Only 5 min from Jersey Girl which also makes a fine beer

Unfortunately, different districts handle absences differently. We get the “too many absences, you’re going to lose credits” letter automatically sent home after 5 class absences but we can get doc notes and work with counselors who will make exceptions. Other districts that neighbor ours are much more strict and absences are absences and F your kid for missing any school. I understand it’s state law for kids to be in school for a certain number of days but there needs to be flexibility for extenuating circumstances like sickness or family stuff. The schools never ever have a problem when student athletes leave school early for competitions which absolutely chaps my ass.

Sayreville?

The idea of praising people for "perfect attendance" needs to go away. Even if you're exempting sick days from those stats, when I see someone who never missed a day, I think that's someone who can't get caught up quickly for a day or two missed. That's not a good thing.

Coming from Illinois, our iPass system has allowed you to set your own replenishment amount forever. They also auto deduct tolls from your account at the correct rate (and no fine) if your transponder doesn’t register but your license plate is on the account.

When I moved here the auto replenishment amount being determined by EZPass on their whim was completely fucking foreign to me. How is that legal? Why can’t I replenish a fixed amount that I specify or choose from a list of fixed amounts?

Used to commute from Morristown area to Princeton area - roughly an hour each way on a average taking 287/206. I also left at 7AM to avoid the worst of traffic because it could get pretty awful. I remember a few 3+ hour commutes during snowstorms and/or hurricane flooding because so many roads were closed you couldn't get anywhere.

if i had to guess i'd say either cattus island or somewhere off the great bay water shed in leh?

I’m sorry. That’s depressing:(

I was 24 maybe, 2011. My mom was moving to JC to a one-bedroom and so I got the boot. Was making maybe 40k, thinking it was great. Moved in with a friend, paid $700 a month, but also took on other bills associated with living alone and 40k went from seeming great to not so great, so decided I needed to stop half-assing my work and start whole-assing it. Moved into another place, two roommates in a 3BR in New Brunswick. Saved more. 2014 came and I bought my home, met my now wife, etc. etc.

Had fun living with roommates. Had fun before I had my kids. Have fun now with kids, but it's a shitload more work, but also incredibly rewarding.

I will let my kids stay with me long enough to get financially comfortable. I won't force them out (unless God forbid they get hooked on drugs, and then you can't enable them) and leave them to financial instability. I was fortunate enough to get my house in 2014, when prices were low, my initial mortgage was at 4.25%, and has since come down even further. Just absolutely lucky and I try to not take it for granted, so my goal is to set my kids up as well as I can so they don't have to take on unnecessary stress, because stress is a killer.

no CAP, but CUM is kind of SUS