Since retiring, I no longer live in NJ, but I think once a Jersey girl, always a Jersey girl at heart. Born and raised in the Garden State, I grew up in Nutley, graduated from St. Mary's elementary school, Nutley High School, Newark State College, and got my Master's degree from Caldwell College. Vacationed at the Jersey shore one or two weeks every summer since I was 20. Met my husband at Rutt's Hut in 1965, and we still go there for old times sake every time we fly in from FL. We got married in St. Mary's by the same priest that married my parents thirty-three years earlier. Bought our first home in Livingston, then thirteen years later, returned to Nutley and bought the house next door to my parents. Loved that house and all the wonderful memories made there. We'd still be there today if the real estate taxes ($14,800 when we left four years ago) didn't make it too prohibitive to retire there. Loved NJ with family right there, everything at your fingertps, NYC only 20 minutes away, etc., but we just couldn't live with the tax situation (right now, for our two homes we pay half of what the Nutley house alone was in 2006) so, sadly, we had to get out. Even now, I still miss so much about it, I guess my Jersey roots run really deep.