How do you figure? If you commute in state it can’t possibly be cheaper to move out of state to go to school. State school rate in NJ is pretty dang affordable until you add in housing

Young adults want to go to schools with night lives. NYC is right there!

NYC: many schools, “top” city in the US according to many, tons of nightlife

NJ: nobody wants to be in Newark. New Brunswick is okay…. And wait what big colleges do we have in cities outside Newark? Oh right all the ones in… NYC… which is not in NJ

There’s not gonna be one source that can outline all the socioeconomic and geographic complexities that goes into “how people graduating from high school pick colleges” but here’s some (old) data around high school graduation rates and enrollment in a college anywhere across all the states http://www.higheredinfo.org/dbrowser/index.php?submeasure=63&year=2010&level=nation&mode=data&state=0

Other states are generating less college students period. Unless you break everything down and normalize it by population and density and demographics these numbers tell you nothing

Fulltime RVers gotta be like what, 1% of 1% of 1% of the 9 million people who live in NJ?

Why would that be a bad look? It has little to do with our schools and everything to do with young adults wanting to experience life literally anywhere else than their parents chose to sow roots because rebellion.

Migration talked about here is not even putting a dent in actual overall population, which is still increasing, because you know, babies are still getting made and 10k people leaving any area of a state with 9 million people in it is irrelevant to the pop.

NJ State Pop: over 9 million

This article: OMG 11k people moved inside the state to probably bigger houses!

I don't always write news articles, but when I do its to talk about how .0001% of the population of NJ may have moved to a different zip code in the state.

ALSO migration is only mildly related to population, even at the county level. I see a lot of commenters not understanding this?

In 2010 even (data here: https://www.state.nj.us/health/chs/hnj2020/documents/demog.pdf) The birth rate in NJ was about 300 new residents per DAY.

PER DAY.

PER DAY.

@ 13 births per 1000 people.

You think Essex, Passaic and Bergen county cant lose 11k people/families from moving and not simply have that replenished AND EXCEEDED by their birth rate?

Absolute nothingburgers here. If you think people are LEAVING NJ in droves, feel free to buy up all those vacant, price-collapsing houses they're leaving behind! Oh wait!

it generally is, locally, if your town has an ordinance on the books for it - usually dependent on you having the sign.

Mostly because it costs like literally nothing to get a coffee machine and make your own? Adding as much fake flavor syrup as you need at home… right?

Did it ever come to mind that he should maybe learn to park his car?

Imagine how much taller we’d grow to be without the oppression of gravity?!

Patented steam grilling apparatus. Old Family invention.

Paranormal brains obv

OP is paranormal if they think anybody buys this as a real photo

Right this “photo” is certainly full of obviousness of editing lol

It’s uhhhh regional dialect

And if you believe that, I’ve got some homemade steamed hams to sell you. Way better than a fast food burger. 30$ each tho.

No! They have signs posted that those are coworker spaces only!

Yea that is what corporate wants you to call their employees in the store. Absolutely hilarious

IKEA calls all their employees coworkers. That’s what you, the customer, are supposed to call them too

And incredibly wasteful

Hell yeah! Tired of suburbs where the train station is not even factored into their local hot spots

Right. You can solve affordable housing even in the suburbs by building complexes near public transport.

A big complex in the middle of nowhere with 20 mins of road to get to transport is a failure in premise before it’s even built.

As other commenters have mentioned, other good places to build: existing abandoned lots/malls. Malls were targeted to areas with decent transportation access anyway, and they’ll never come back… soooo start going up!

the votes being nonpartisan HUGELY change the way it works.

Instead of being on the ballot as D or R and being in that column, its a random-ish order, with the incumbents called out.

This is beneficial because almost nobody votes in those elections, and of the people who DO, 90% of them have no idea what theyre doing, they just vote down D?R column, which is objectively bad for small scale govt.

Take the ability to do that away, and they have 3 choices:

• vote for incumbents

• vote for challengers

• actually prepare for the election and figure out what you want to do (or remember a few interactions with your town govt and vote the people you hate out)

all 3 of those are smarter voting patterns than "the guy was on the right team"