You’ll love it! I had a feeling we would be seeing an influx of of teachers from the south. It’s a shame for all the students who will miss out in your old state but we are thrilled to have you join our school system. I can only speak for my northern NJ district but I love it and my kids love their public school.

What do you mean the commute isn’t much further? Princeton is an hour away from Plainfield during rush hour…

I love this part of flemington. Hit factory fuel for a killer cup of joe and grab food at bluefish!!

Couldn't* care less

Definitely less patient and fast, not uncommon to see people going 90+ on the turnpike sometimes.

Weird ass intersections, jughandles(not that bad), way more roundabouts, on-ramps and off ramps can be crazy as hell depending on time and place, some people say yield signs don’t mean shit around here. Bunch of small things in random places you’ll come to find.

Thank you! I’m honestly so glad to be going. I teach in Tennessee but live across the border in Mississippi. And I’ve never felt proud of calling myself a Mississippian. But you better bet I will proudly declare I’m a New Jerseyan!

Thanks for the info! Would you happen to have any recommendations on how to find individual properties?

I’ll pm you

I'm not commenting on what happened, I'm commenting on that ridiculous term you used.

She killed herself.

I'm not anti-cop by any means, but this is a horrible. What happens to all the people he's arrested over the years?

"People accused of disorderly conduct can be filed for:
Improper Behavior – This includes engaging in violent behavior, fighting, making threats. It also addresses causing purposeful and reckless public annoyance, alarm, or inconvenience or creating a physically dangerous condition through an act of no legitimate purpose.

Offensive Language – Based on the circumstances of the individual present and the act’s setting. Generally, it addresses unreasonably loud, offensive, abusive, or coarse language used purposefully to offend those who hear it or recklessly without regard for the hearer.

If found guilty of any of these offenses, you could face up to 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine. You will also have to pay $50 and $75 to the Victims of Crime Compensation Board (VCCB) and Safe Neighborhood Services Fund and $33 in court costs."

No, it’s very normal in NJ/NY area to have out of states parents co-sign for apts. good luck with your search.

Thank you! Excited to be joining you all. Now I’ve just got to work on getting “y’all” out of my lexicon.

So glad your coming to NJ, sorry no apt hunting advice. Just welcome. 😀

You could also try a realtor.

Not necessarily. About 10 years ago, I was all set to rent an apartment in Jersey City, they asked for my guarantor information, and refused because my guarantor lived in New York.

Weird I had NJM initially and it was massively more expensive than Progressive who I ended up switching to. Just call everywhere and get an apples to apples quote and go with the cheapest. I do this every year or so. I had NJM, then Progressive, then Geico, then went back to Progressive lmao.

NJM has been consistently rated very high. Usually #2 behind USAA. But one thing to note is that they recently started expanding to additional states. They used to be primarily NJ, with some PA policies. But now they opened up to all of PA, OH, DE, and MD. That could impact their customer service.

I have been forewarned about the driving! I’m not going to lie. I’m a little nervous. How would you define the driving etiquette?

If your family still has NJM, you should have been able to set up a legacy policy. I'd call their rep and ask them who to speak with.

Definitely try to rent a condo rather than an apartment owned by a giant company. Individual landlords are people and they want to rent to a good human who will take care of the place. I got my place in this ultra competitive market because I wrote a letter with my application telling a little about myself and basically promising to take care of the place. My landlord loved that. I sent him cookies for Christmas and he didn’t raise my rent despite inflation! It’s the little things.

You’ll love jersey. I grew up here, left, and then decided to come back. Generally, the farther south you go the cheaper housing gets, but remember that has a serious impact on commuter traffic. The GSP northbound has tons of traffic in the morning and southbound is bad in the evenings because everyone has the same commute. If you can afford to live north of your workplace and go opposite of the trend, I encourage you to do that!

I thought weed was the stuff they legalized in NJ last year

Westfield, Somerville and Redbank all equally awesome spots for them.

Thanks for the sanity check. I don't have a problem with the documents gathering, it was the restrictions--like "no copies accepted"--that was frustrating me.

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>Truly there is no rush to get the RealID and people lose their minds over it for no reason.

IDGAF about RealID but my license is up for renewal and I can't do it via online/email since they're "upgrading" me to RealId as well.

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>Be kind to the [$WORKERS] assisting you...They have the power to make your day miserable and they will invoke it if they feel like it.

Always good advice. :-)

every couple of years i price out various companies just to see if i can save some money. njm was going to charge me way more than some others. have heard very mixed things since they opened it up to everyone in the state and now advertise just as much as your geicos and allstates and state farms.