BY JILLIAN RISBERG
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
We've all heard the taunts, "Oh, you're from New Jersey — you mean the armpit of America." The Garden State often seems to get a bad rap but do the locals themselves have recurring thoughts of moving? It's far from an isolated notion since a supposed new "report" has them leaving in droves.
According to the Star-Ledger, New Jersey ranks 5th in the nation (behind New York, California, Illinois and Michigan) for most out-of-state migration. The loss of nearly 304,000 residents over an eight-year span from 2000 to 2008 meant their combined annual incomes of $12.3 billion went with them to other states such as Florida, Pennsylvania and the Carolinas.
The Ledger attributes this data to the Tax Foundation and the non-partisan Washington, D.C.-based think tank took to their blog to call the article's headline sadly misleading.
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