Comment Re:wait, I missed that part (Score 1) 185
It's not as bad as a "bleak wasteland of suburbs." It's close, but there are still nice parts of Monmouth and Ocean county if you can afford them. The shore's still nice.
Going back to Silicon Valley (Mountain View, Sunnyvale) and seeing an area I knew in 1993 and comparing the cost of living there with here makes NJ look damned reasonable.