The irony is that someone who played the Trenton mascot actually did use one of their suits for a robbery shortly afterwards.

Yep my town just had their re-evaluations done and my house went up, no joke, 60%. Of course they are basing this on prices at the complete top of the crazy real estate market we recently went through. I called to ask for a re-evaluation and they stuck to their guns so I ended up hiring an attorney to fight it. Yeah I feel bad in some ways as my kids utilize the schools and I know all that stuff runs on property taxes, but at the same time I feel like my house's value is grossly inflated for the tax revenue.

Big push broom

Long broom handle

>aid that graduate students who are research or teaching assistants make about $30,000 for a nine-month contract, and as little as $20,000 if they are working through a fellowship.

That is insultingly low, but on par with universities. Just look at Temple and John Hopkins Universities. I hope they succeed in getting higher wages.

Yep. Drive on 80 and 287 this morning and almost no one had bothered to do so.

The state should start selling cannabis at state cannabis farms and we could all have low taxes. They could also use the money from not arresting people for cannabis anymore. Also use the money from all those public employee benefit cuts from Chris Christie. They could also tax the millionaires so working people aren’t subsidizing their mansions and elite schools. These things could all happen but it would sound like socialism to the average citizen.

> too chicken

Apparently so is Route-55.

What do you mean?

Yes! We need to merge some of these municipalities

I want to join in with all the puns but I'm too chicken

>We always stayed at the Bonanza

You just unlocked a deep core memory of my childhood.

Property values go up, taxes go up even if the percentage stayed the same or went down if values went up enough. Build more dense and affordable housing, bring property values down as unpopular as it'll be, build the commerical uses necessary to sustain that dense housing where it's possible to lessen the burden on 100% resident funded taxes. Everywhere needs to consolidate government services and get over this fascination that we need 560+ individual service providers for everything facet of government. Madison, Morris, Florham, and Chatham I believe all have a joint court system and split the cost rather than each paying its own entire court system. Police can certainly cover multiple municipalities outside of cities and large townships. Many school districts can get consolidated to get rid of administrative bloat and all those leech superintendents. Rural communities that refuse to build denser and mixed-use areas for good reasons in many cases better get on the consolidation train if they want taxes to go down. People are going to be laid off and property values are going to come down, but that's how you'll create sustaining tax decreases across the board imo.

Former die hard roll person here who is now a sesame bagel convert after moving back to NJ from 10+ years living in NYC. Used to argue that the bagel took too much away from the flavor of meat egg and cheese but the bagels are just so damn good here I can't resist the whole shebang.

This is just proof that plenty of dumb shit folks in movies try to get away with would totally work - not because people are stupid enough to fall for it or oblivious enough to not notice, but simply because who wants to start that conversation?

I finally have an actual garage. Like an indoor, no fucking snow on my roof garage 🙂

Feels good to not have to scrape ice nor brush off like inches of thick, heavy snow yaaay!!

I'm in East Windsor. I call it the Bermuda Triangle: Turnpike, parkway, and 33. Everything in the middle there is just lost.

Bagel for sure. Save the roll for cold cuts.

Thanks.

As I mentioned my car is easy, but my dad has a suburban and I have no idea how I would remove frozen heavy deep snow from the top of that without a ladder.

I use a big outside broom

Where are you gonna build it there that isn’t through forests or farms?

Then complain about more flooding and lack of green space!

The majority of this sub needs a crash course in induced demand.

a too salty everything is the biggest let down for me

We're at the ass end of a peninsula, unless you're swimming or paddling there's literally only so many ways to physically enter this area