there are too many people from new jersey in this forum

Where do you live again diff?

Jersey City rocks all of NJ.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

No.

Well... it's okay. If you've never been to shores or beaches in other states (like the Pacific coast, or the Gulf Coast). I went there last summer, after spending my time in SoCal, and driving up the PCH, and it was pretty shitty.

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I've been to other beaches and nice Jersey beaches (Like Brigantine) are REALLY nice, but a lot of places are just usual tourist trap garbage. It's okay if you like, say, buying cheap earrings and eating salt-water taffy. Cape May is the nicest one of those places. You don't get anywhere near the variety of interesting wildlife like you do on the Pacific beaches though, they're generally more interesting to explore. The nice Jersey beaches are good for swimming/bodysurfing/boogieboarding.

I like Jersey. Bits of it. Driving to Cape May from Delaware you pass through what's left of the actual farmlands, it's a really different experience.

All most people know of Jersey are what's on the Turnpike, which is garbage, and Shore traffic, which is awful.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

wtf, since when do you live on LI? What town?

And it's not just the price of housing that's crazy here, it's the taxes.

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Mostly on LI since 1967. ;)

Currently living in an Apartment in Southampton, biz in Mastic.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

A correction in the near future, paired with a surge in the stock market, would be jawesome for chumps like me.

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Yeah, me too. I'm saving for a house but 20% of $3-400,000.00 = a long time from now.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Housing prices are ludicrous everywhere. My uncle in Florida was telling me about how prices shot up, I remember saying to my mom, back in 2000 or 2001 when she got divorced, she should move to Florida and buy a house for $85,000 (which is what real estate cost then). Now its like $250,000 for the same shit.

A correction in the near future, paired with a surge in the stock market, would be jawesome for chumps like me.

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It will. The out of control real estate market is going to crash (at least, everyone I know who works in real estate swear it will). The trick is to have enough money saved that you can jump on a nice house(s) when it does.

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Originally Posted by Vasteel

It will. The out of control real estate market is going to crash (at least, everyone I know who works in real estate swear it will). The trick is to have enough money saved that you can jump on a nice house(s) when it does.

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I think there will be a correction, not a crash. None too soon as far as I'm concerned.

It depends on the region, some places will correct, some places will crash. I dont know where you draw the line exactly, but I read prices may drop as much as 20% around here (Morris County NJ).

All I know is that there are around 10 buildings for sale around and including the house I live in, and 50+ within a 2 mile radius. It's not a seller's market anymore, really.

I tihnk I brought it up in another thread, but the houses have doubled in value in Mississippi. Yes, I know no one cares about Mississippi, but if land has double in value in Mississippi then it has literlally went up everywhere.

Keeping my fingers crossed for a crash, then.

Shore traffic is the shittiest thing. Whenever I drive to school, I take the Turnpike down to Delaware and it's the most boring drive in the world. It's like 50 miles of 2 lane highway with noone on it. Thank god for Opie and Anthony. I really don't mind Jersey once you get past the Northern part, and I do enjoy the beaches for what they are; something acceptable and close...come to NY if you want shitty beaches. I live within walking distance of the beach and I've never set foot on it without the intent to drink.