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"Congress created the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve, the country's first National Reserve, to protect the area under the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978. The New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve contains approximately 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) of land, and occupies 22% of New Jersey's land area, including territory of much of seven counties."
I define South Jersey as including the following counties: Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean, and Salem. This region is in decline.
House prices are falling in 5 of 7 Counties (slight gains in Atlantic and Ocean). Population is declining in 5 of 7 counties (modest increases in Gloucester and Ocean).
The national economy is thriving and the state economy is healing - both have been growing for years. Something is going terribly wrong when in this environment, house prices and population in a region are headed down.
Is South Jersey's decline irreversible?
If home prices are going down, then the population will increase as people will flee there for cheap housing from more expensive areas up north, and seriously north and south NJ are very close.
There's everything you need in the Manahawkin area. That place went from one blinking traffic light in the early 1960s to a traffic nightmare in the 1990s. I don't think there are any inexpensive 55+ communities in the area. There are a couple in Whiting. Shopping would be in Toms River. I've only been there a few times, so I can't help you with that.
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