I love city data forums. It's an awsome website. What I don't like are the few miserable people who respond all over the forum with their negative miserable views and opinions. You wish you could just break off a slab of happiness and share it with them. Kind of like real life.There's always a few miserable ones.
Some of the nastiest, negative people are the ones who seem to place a lot of value on the CD merit point system. Must be something lacking in real life.
It really sucks...

Im from NJ, born here, live here. I'm done with it. Not necessarily in a bad way. I've just seen it, done it, froze my butt off for 42 years. I've always dreamt of southern California but the cost of living is frightening to say the least. I'm not giving up but lately have been thinking maybe there is somewhere else to have close to the same climate, reasonable cost of living and still be on a coast. Not easy. So I've recently and finally gotten ready for government employment and have applications...