Good-bye to the Garden State

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I will miss not having to pump my own gas. (The lawmakers in Trenton think the citizens are too stupid to work a gas pump.) Then again, as noted above, it's just short drive across the Delaware River. Gas up and high-tail it home!
 
PR-NJ said:
In two weeks, I'm moving from New Jersey to Pennsylvania (eight miles away). Although New Jersey's overly restrictive firearms laws are not the primary reason for the move, they certainly factored into the equation.

I'll have to change my handle.
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Congrats, as a former resident of the PRMA I can tell you the sun will start shining more the sky will be bluer once you leave the grip of a commie state
 
My son's company wants him to move from Utah to New Jersey to take a new position. I told him he needs to think it over VERY HARD because he will be missing alot of things. He has several guns that he will have to get rid of, or bring them to me, he will have higher cost of living, not so much freedom on his motorcycle because of the traffic in NJ. I cannot see an upside to living there.

As a side note, I once moved to Maryland for a short period of time. I was never so happy to get the heck out of there and get back to my beloved homeland!
 
Posted by various members:
...I'm moving from New Jersey to Pennsylvania...
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I'm about to move from hardcore anti-Illinois to hardcore friendly-Texas!
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...I moved from the Golden State to the Silver State.
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...I left ... Maryland) a year and a half ago for Oklahoma.
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Just a slight favor to ask though, if I may. Do all that you can, NOT to change your new state home. Please. If the new state of residence doesn't operate the way your former state does, leave it alone, get used to it, find out why and how it works for the people who decided to run it that way. Please.

My state is evolving from a very free state in regards to firearms liberty, to more and more restrictive gun laws. Bit by little bit, election cycle by ballot measure. This is because we have a tidal wave of people moving here from states like the ones mentioned, but when the new residents get here, they continue to vote they way they always have. It must be because they don't really like the way things are done, and have always been done here. So they've been hard at work trying to correct this backwoods, old fashioned state by making it look a little more like the state they fled.

And that's exactly what's happening here. We're losing freedom here, one nibble at a time.
 
Good-bye to the Garden State

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In two weeks, I'm moving from New Jersey to Pennsylvania (eight miles away). Although New Jersey's overly restrictive firearms laws are not the primary reason for the move, they certainly factored into the equation.

I'll have to change my handle.
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Congratulations, and welcome to the United States!

Just a few words of advice to help you get along with the natives:

1. Leave your politics back home at the People's Republik - It irks us when people move from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, only to try to vote for the same baloney that they left behind in Jersey.

2. Learn how to drive! Unlike in New Jersey, it is not considered proper form to change lanes 8 times just to pass one car, or to pass a car just prior to slamming on your brakes to make a turn.

Just kidding! Welcome to Pennsylvania!
 
I would certainly choose PA over NJ for more than gun laws. I suspect you still will be in the midst of the higher populated portion of the area.

Added: I once was looking hard at a move to NJ and when I started checking cost of living differences, I declined. I just was not worth it even at higher pay.
 
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PA is surrounded by gun ownership HELL. It is one of the few mid-atlantic/northeast states to still have decent gun laws. It is good you are getting out of that socialist hell hole.
 
I live in CA which isn't firearm friendly. The only good thing this does is save me from myself. There are a lot of things I would like (but do not in any way need) to buy but they are illegal in CA. Thus, I save myself money (and the state looses a nearly 10% sales tax).
 
1. Leave your politics back home at the People's Republik - It irks us when people move from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, only to try to vote for the same baloney that they left behind in Jersey.
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We have the same thing happening in Nevada. People from our western neighbor move here and then try to replicate California laws. One question. Why???:cuss:
 
PR-NJ Congrats on your move.
I left NJ in '05 and now enjoy the carry laws and easier
purchasing laws of New Hampshire.
In NJ unless you are retired LE it is virtually impossible to get a carry permit.
Here in NH....open carry is legal and CC is easily obtained.
What a difference it is, to be free.
Enjoy PA and never look back!
 
lizziedog1 said:
I remember when I purchased my first gun here. I filled out the form, the clerk made a phone call, I gave him the money, he then handed me the gun and I walked out with it. I felt more like an American then I had in years.
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More American...is a relative term. You still had your 2A rights infringed. But certainly a better situation indeed.
 
I guess living in Kansas does have its advantages. No one wants to move here, and the gun laws seem to becoming MORE friendly.
 
The best $2 I ever spent was on a toll across the Deleware. While NJ has it's great points, I always felt like someone was watching over my shoulder.
 
HGUNHNTR said:
The best $2 I ever spent was on a toll across the Deleware. While NJ has it's great points, I always felt like someone was watching over my shoulder.
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I can see it has been a very long time since you have left NJ. The bridge toll is now $4, soon to be $5.

It is free to enter NJ, but you have to pay to leave!
 
lizziedog1 said:
We have the same thing happening in Nevada. People from our western neighbor move here and then try to replicate California laws.
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Same's going on in Utah, in areas with a lot of CA expats (like St. George) and, I hear, Colorado. California needs to declare itself a carcinogen... :rolleyes:
 
Same's going on in Utah, in areas with a lot of CA expats (like St. George) and, I hear, Colorado. California needs to declare itself a carcinogen...
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Great reply!!!

I live in a very rural area, agriculture is our number one industry. Combines and tractors rolling down the highway are common here. We even get the occasional air show with crop dusters.

Some Golden Staters that have moved into this area are complaining about the dust, smells, and noises associated with farming.

Right after I moved here, I was in the desert shooting my 22 rifle into a bank of dirt. This older guy walks up to me and asks if I am concerned about putting lead into the environment? I asked him if he knew where lead came from?

He then proceeded to tell me how his wife gets upset with folks that are shooting up the jackrabbits around here. I was on BLM land at the time.

Guess where he was from? I'll give you a hint...California!
 
"Gun Friendly" is right up there with "pleasant winters" as for criteria for my next state of residence, but isn't there also something to be said for staying behind to "fight the good fight" in one's current place of residence?
It could be argued that those with the drive and initiative to seek a better life elsewhere could apply it to activism where they are and agitate for change.
I'm not chiding anyone here, just raising a point...
 
PR-NJ said:
I will miss not having to pump my own gas. (The lawmakers in Trenton think the citizens are too stupid to work a gas pump.) Then again, as noted above, it's just short drive across the Delaware River. Gas up and high-tail it home!
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Not sure the attendants fare any better - one of them improperly inserted a pump nozzle into the fuel intake of the car ahead of me, resulting in a HUGE puddle of spilled gas, on a scorching hot day at the Vince Lombardi Service Station. If I had been on foot with a football, I would have run outta therefast enough to make ol' Vince proud of me. As I was in a vehicle, I simply backed up a foot or two to give myself enough maneuvering room (earning me a vicious honking from the driver behind me), and got the heck out of there...
 
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