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upstatedreaming3816 t1_ixtfkrh wrote

Reply to comment by hfhifi in Has anybody gotten tired of the NYC-related posts? by Technical-Car

I’ve seen pictures of what it was like down there (I’m up in Sussex so everything is “down there”) before the boom and I gotta say- I think it looked much better. Farms, pastures, trees, etc.

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Technical-Car OP t1_ixv4ehk wrote

I concur: they used to have an old world charm to them based on pictures.
Now it just feels old and cramped.
The finance industry could, also, be decentralized within a few decades.

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hfhifi t1_ixv6gjs wrote

Nearly all of our state looked like that before NY and Philly dwellers moved out of crowded Boroughs in search of a better quality of life. Jersey would have built up even if 95% of those people didn’t commute. My home town isn’t a big commuter town but the population is probably 4x what it was when I was born. It exploded because people fled the growing crime in Paterson and Passaic to a safer place. That had nothing to do with NYC.

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sutisuc t1_ixx3ylc wrote

LOL you’re upstate dreaming in Sussex? You’re basically already in the NJ version of upstate

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upstatedreaming3816 t1_ixxgv6f wrote

Yeah lol I made this account years ago when my wife and I were planning on moving up there. Work and life ended up keeping us down here though lol

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