[Nathaniel Firethorn]

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THEY'RE JERSEY-BRED BUT FLORIDA-BOUND

Sunshine State attracts a younger crop of N.J. transplants

Monday, August 18, 2003

BY MARY JO PATTERSON
Star-Ledger Staff

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Today, Pete, 32, and Dave, 34, belong to the huge crop of younger New Jersey transplants who seem to be everywhere in this once rural, increasingly suburban county north of Tampa. These days, the Luke Brothers are one of this region's biggest employers.

Florida has always been a magnet for people born in New Jersey, especially seniors. The 2000 Census found more than 450,000 New Jersey natives there. - pdmoderator

[Seminole]

Now that's a real threat to Florida's way of life. As a former Florida resident I never objected to the number of Hispanics (Cuban, Mexican, whatever) who sought refuge and/or employment in our state. But NJ folks are a different matter! Having made a mess of their home state, the next thing you know, they'll be lobbying for further "reasonable laws" to regulate the widespread carrying of firearms on the persons and in the vehicles of Floridians--you know, "for the children!) :rolleyes:

(DISCLAIMER: No offense intended to those members to THR who may have the misfortune of being residents of the PRNJ. I'm sure Floridians would welcome you guys with open arms!)

[Orthonym]

And I thought the MidWesterners were bad....

[Kharn]

Maybe the Florida MVA should ask to see proof you own a gun if you're trying to exchange a NJ driver's license for a Florida one? :D

Kharn

[greyhound]

Thats just like where city people move out to the country to escape the city, and immediately start trying to make it more citified.

We had a case here where a Connecticutt couple moved to Carroll County, MD and tried to get their next door neighbor to remove his deer skinning post as it "offended" them. Local government just laughed in their face!:D

[PeteyPete]

I feel for you guys....I'd rather the looney liberals stay here in NJ so when i finally leave, i never again have to hear their shrill, clamoring screams of fear when it comes to guns. Good lord they're annoying:banghead:

[HBK]

Sounds like the opposite of the free state project. Liberals move into a state that has fairly reasonable gun laws and wreck it, rendering it FUBAR.

[glocksman]

We had a case here where a Connecticutt couple moved to Carroll County, MD and tried to get their next door neighbor to remove his deer skinning post as it "offended" them. Local government just laughed in their face!

I was in the area (Hampstead and Westminster) on business for my union for a month back in February, and I noticed a *lot* of Erlich for governor bumper stickers. Even a lot of the union people had them.

Except for the fact that my G19 was back in Indiana instead of on my hip, I felt right at home. :)

Apparently not all Marylanders are the Kennedy loving sheep that I imagined them to be. :neener:

[Billll]

Anyone with a NJ drivers lisence and a handgun, trying to move to Fla. should probably be granted "refugee" status. :D