New Jersey

I lived here all my life, my friends are here, some of my family is left here. I like where I live and I don't think I could stand the weather or the politics of many other states.

As high as the taxes may be, there is something to having seasons, but not too much, and for having parks and trees in walking distance. Having mas transportation. I live in a town where everything I need is with in a mile of me, yet I have a nice house and property. There are so many places where I have friends who can't get around as they age, where things are so much more inconvenient. They need airconditioning or expensive heat, the food is not as fresh or it is much more expensive.

I may have to sell my house though, it is getting harder and harder to find workmen who will be fair with a retired woman. Those that will tend to be very expensive. How can you move to someplace like Florida with all the political problems there - Or like Arizona where a stranger listening in on a conversation with a friend told me that I should never move there, someone would shoot me if they heard what I was saying. I was talking about someone having their mother sitting on a rocker in the back of a truck - there are so few rules it is scary. How do you find a place that is not New Jersey - although I have been tempted by Vermont and New Hampshire, but they won't have the Jersey beaches.