rick81721
Lothar
People take things too personally. Where you choose to live is a personal preference, just like what you like to eat or what you like to wear. I grew up in Pennsylvania "America starts here!" - that was a great slogan btw. I then lived 2 years in Chicago before moving to NJ in 1985.
There's nothing wrong with NJ or the people who live here. Are people in the midwest or south a little more polite? Probably, but I attribute more to a slower pace of life than anything else. For us, it came down to winters. We just aren't winter people, never were even in early adulthood. Later in life, winter became something unpleasureable to endure, and with it lasting basically one third of the year, it became untenable for us. So as soon as we retired, we moved part-time to the warmest place in the lower 48 states - Florida. But as nice as it is in the winter, the summers are brutally hot, as such our plan for the foreseeable future is to maintain a part-time presence in NJ for may - sept, at least as long as our son is in NJ. If he moves elsewhere after college/marriage, we will likely change part-time residence to whereever he goes.
There's nothing wrong with NJ or the people who live here. Are people in the midwest or south a little more polite? Probably, but I attribute more to a slower pace of life than anything else. For us, it came down to winters. We just aren't winter people, never were even in early adulthood. Later in life, winter became something unpleasureable to endure, and with it lasting basically one third of the year, it became untenable for us. So as soon as we retired, we moved part-time to the warmest place in the lower 48 states - Florida. But as nice as it is in the winter, the summers are brutally hot, as such our plan for the foreseeable future is to maintain a part-time presence in NJ for may - sept, at least as long as our son is in NJ. If he moves elsewhere after college/marriage, we will likely change part-time residence to whereever he goes.