Alitbie you sound so much like me, but I absolutely need to get out of central NJ permanently. Between the oppressive heat and high humidity and property taxes (I'd be paying less than a quarter in MA than I do here) that's a win-win in itself. You'll find over time shortcuts around the traffic and the best time to run errends. I've only been a lurker here at best for the past almost two years due to a 15 month, 60 hour a week babysitting gig my wife got herself (and dragged me) into, so no house hunting during that. Then when that ended she went out and got us a new boxer (had to put the other down last October) so at 10 weeks he's almost trained. But in a week we'll be up in W. Dennis in the real estate game fulltime for, well the foreseeable future. Fortunately there's family property where we can stay. At their encouragement I had hoped to buy my relatives out of that property, did diligence got a high appraisal, inspection, but long story short, dealing with family sucks, they turned me down and haven't spoken to me since. No biggie, probably for the best, there's a lot of interesting properties I keep an eye on online we'll be seeing. (Guppy, are there clams in Dinah's Pond???). Feels good to finally participate again here. Sorry so long winded.
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