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BurlCo Times: Poll: 44% of NJ residents planning to move away
November 27, 2019
by David Levinsky
The poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University and the Garden State Initiative found that 44% of New Jersey residents are planning to leave the state, including 28% within the next five years.
New Jersey has great beaches, top schools and a fantastic location smack between New York and Philadelphia, yet a new poll has found that close to half the state’s residents are mulling moving away, with the state’s notoriously high property taxes and expensive cost of living chiefly to blame.
The poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University and the Garden State Initiative found that 44% of New Jersey residents are planning to leave the state, including 28% within the next five years.
The survey also found that property taxes and the overall cost of living were residents’ biggest concerns about the quality of life in the Garden State, followed by government corruption, crime and drugs, bridges and roads, and the state’s environment.
“These results should alarm every elected official and policymaker in New Jersey,” said Regina Egea, Garden State Initiative’s president. “We have a crisis of confidence in the ability of our leaders to address property taxes and the cost of living whether at the start of their career, in prime earning years or repositioning for retirement, New Jersey residents see greener pastures in other states.”
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