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bhaisaab pollution is no worse here than India where smoke is enough to tear ur eyes, not even comparible. I doubt u will see any difference from the bay area. If by any chance u do buy on an old wasteland u are likely to get a good deal. I have family who lives on a former wasteland and I don't see what the problem is so long as u aren't eating the dirt outside, u might want a purifyer on ur kitchen faucet but that's about it. U will also think twice about planting a garden but this can be done without using the your property soil. But NJ as a whole, it's just impossible to know a place without visiting there. U shouldnt start to many topics on the same issue of moving or people will think u are flaming the board.
I wont waste my time watching your silly videos since you did not take the time to read my post. Where you live now is far more toxic then any place in NJ. And I provided the government sources. What proof have you provided? Some home made YouTube videos?
I come from the other side of the Earth and pollution there is a thousand times worse than Jersey, therefore NJ seems relatively clean to me. In NJ we got all these info about waste sites because NJDEP do soil and water testing and sue the original owner of the property (e.g. factory) to recoup the clean up cost. In other places around the world I don't know if that's even found out and folks could be living happily on waste sites without any knowledge about it. Yes there are places in the Northeast that I wouldn't live in due to the polluted groundwater and alleged cancer clusters (you can find those info on the web), but I wouldn't say the whole Jersey is bad.
Have you checked the Texas board? I've heard that many Asian Indian are there too. Schools are good and the houses are very cheap (and property tax are low) compared to Jersey. You will find HP, Texas Instruments... However I don't know anything about pollution in TX (I've never been there).
If you are worried about pollution so bad, flee from Silicon Valley and move to places like Moab, UT... but I doubt your wife will find any Indian there, unless it's the other kind of Indian.
The Raritan arsenal has tons of munitions, etc buried thorought the former site with some stuff still being uncovered. That would be rt514 east to the river bordered on the north by 287 and the south almost to the turnpike.
Don't forget the river is an artery so you better look upstream. Look up the Crysowati(sp?)/ Hockenbury rd farm dump site in Three Bridges. That was a former US, No#1 Superfund site.
Hatco, Grace chemical and Hayden Chemical companies flourished along the river below the Raritan Arsenal for a generation or two. Bad stuff went into the river and air for years.
Go to the Fish and Wildlife website and find the warnings on consumption of fish.
Fact is, Maine, known as a pristine state, has essentially the same warning on fish consumption. Point is, pollution is every where.
To complete the picture check out cancer rates for the area and compare. Lot of area natives living well into their 80s. No 'cancer clusters" that I know of. South Jersey had some clusters. There was a cluster in Bridgewater near Fisher Scientific where many childen came down with leukemia.
The River has recovered so well that unprecedented stripped bass, blues, hickory and american shad fisheries are finding their way upriver past the Crab Island, the arsenal, Kin-buc and getting caught in Bound Brook and north Branch.
You have probably incurred the prerequsites for whatever disease process, that may in the future, afflict you. The pollution of the past lives on and is more of a legal and ethical issue at this point. Be concerned with vinyl siding and current manufacturing processes. Suggest you look up "Blue Vinyl" on-line and review that film made by a person living with cancer.
Society has decided to accept the pain and suffering of cancer for its members. That should be your main concern. That's the real problem. Cancer is so insidious and destructive but the causes are many. Essentially no epidemiology is done on cancer cases and no one will commit to what caused your cancer or other ailments except in the legal system. We were born with a terminal case of life.
Vishnu, you broke my heart. I thought you were a nice guy, but then you got all freaky on me. Everyone in NJ knows about this. There has been a lot of industry in NJ in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. You'll find similar situations in the upper midwest, etc.
And in Asia the troubles are just beginning. What about that gigantic black toxic cloud that floats over Asia, the Pacific, and the Amazon due to coal burning and burning down large tracts of forest to plant crops? What about Bhopal? What about melamine in chinese food? Why are Polynesian people vagabonds who have abandoned their islands and are flocking to Hawaii and Australia? We're killing this earth and each other.
Good luck in your quest. And DON'T rant to your wife's friends about this stuff, they won't appreciate it.
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