If you could quit your job tomorrow and be financially okay, would you?

[DGuller]

Why do you think there is a low quality of life there? 

Personal experience.  It's hard to describe, because it's really a collection of many little things that grate on you once you know that other places have it better.  Some of it is just an inevitable consequence of high population density, but many are a result of piss-poor governance.

When I think of NYC I think of the all the amazing things I could do there that I couldnt do here - and I live in a pretty amazing place.

Because you're thinking like a tourist, not like a potential resident.

[garbon]

Why do you think there is a low quality of life there? 

Personal experience.  It's hard to describe, because it's really a collection of many little things that grate on you once you know that other places have it better.  Some of it is just an inevitable consequence of high population density, but many are a result of piss-poor governance.

When I think of NYC I think of the all the amazing things I could do there that I couldnt do here - and I live in a pretty amazing place.

Because you're thinking like a tourist, not like a potential resident.

And as a potential resident you lose all interests?

Also, you voluntarily live in NJ, so I shall advise that your personal experience should be taken with a salt lick.

[DGuller]

And as a potential resident you lose all interests?

No, but some of the interests are based on novelty, which works for tourists, but quickly bores the locals.

Also, you voluntarily live in NJ, so I shall advise that your personal experience should be taken with a salt lick.

That wasn't clever even the first 100 times.  I don't know where NJ stacks up in the big picture, but in general it's a much nicer place to live in, and just a much nicer place, than NYC.

[CountDeMoney]

There's a lot of really nice space in the Jersey heartland, like all along 70 and below 195...it's when you start winding up on the Delaware River side from Wilmington all the way up to below Trenton, or near Newark that it starts to become "New Joisey".

[DGuller]

There's a lot of really nice space in the Jersey heartland, like all along 70 and below 195...it's when you start winding up on the Delaware River side from Wilmington all the way up to below Trenton, or near Newark that it starts to become "New Joisey".

Western and Southern New Jersey are particularly nice places to live in, but IMO even the northeastern parts which are insanely expensive and horribly congested are still preferable to what's there across the river.

[crazy canuck]

Because you're thinking like a tourist, not like a potential resident.

Naw, I would be happy to live there.  It would take all of two seconds to convince my wife to move.  The time it would take me to say "we are moving to NYC"

[Savonarola]

The main difference between the idle rich and the idle poor is that the idle rich have the means to do some serious damage to themselves and perhaps more importantly to others.

Thanks to the miracle of crystal meth the idle poor also have the means to do some serious damage themselves and others.

[Savonarola]

In any event, no, I wouldn't quit my job for a guaranteed $45,000 per year.  I like my job.   

[garbon]

There's a lot of really nice space in the Jersey heartland, like all along 70 and below 195...it's when you start winding up on the Delaware River side from Wilmington all the way up to below Trenton, or near Newark that it starts to become "New Joisey".

Western and Southern New Jersey are particularly nice places to live in, but IMO even the northeastern parts which are insanely expensive and horribly congested are still preferable to what's there across the river.

You got the greater Baltimore area to agree with you. Besides, are you trying to claim you live in one of the nice parts of Jersey?

[DGuller]

Besides, are you trying to claim you live in one of the nice parts of Jersey?

No, I live right across the river, though I would like to move westward sometime in the future.  It's still a much better deal than NYC.

[garbon]

Besides, are you trying to claim you live in one of the nice parts of Jersey?

No, I live right across the river, though I would like to move westward sometime in the future.  It's still a much better deal than NYC.

For you, perhaps.

[Maximus]

I can't think of anything I'd want to live in NYC for. Maybe a job, but with the cost of living it would have to be a damn fine job.

[crazy canuck]

I can't think of anything I'd want to live in NYC for. Maybe a job, but with the cost of living it would have to be a damn fine job.

Again we need to consider where you did choose to live to provide some context to whether your judgment should be accepted about such things.

[Maximus]

I can't think of anything I'd want to live in NYC for. Maybe a job, but with the cost of living it would have to be a damn fine job.

Again we need to consider where you did choose to live to provide some context to whether your judgment should be accepted about such things.

You're right. The right woman would probably do it too.

[Admiral Yi]

Are you sure you're Jewish DG?