This area is a hell !!!
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6/9/2006
This whole area is a hell !!! By this area I mean the northern part of Ocean County. Why would I be on this site if I were not interested in getting out of here? The costs for food, housing, recreation, and taxes are un-happily high. Going to a movie is painful because for 2 people it costs at minimum $30, and I am on a fixed budget. Meat is completely unaffordable (and rotten) at any supermarket, and I can’t even afford sandwiches for my family. Roads are filled with old white vans & pick-up trucks with scary looking minorities. The houses in my neighborhood, and many others, are very old (build more than 55 years ago) and have not had any structural, electrical, or plumbing, repairs ever, mostly due to the income of the inhabitants. To get a contractor to do some work for you will cost a pretty-penny, and it will be made out of cr*p materials. Also, the job market will kill you. I am a decently experience & educated person and it took me 3 months to get a job, in the Lakewood ghetto, whose salary turned out to be less than the salary.com medium. Some job-offerings are incredibly worse than that, with big numbers of scam-artist jobs, such as at Banks & in the Telemarketing Industry. I felt at times I could qualify for welfare. BEWARE!! The entertainment & recreation costs are so bad that I sit in my home staring at the wall (plan $135/person for Six Flags). The mayors like to think this place is so good, and has lots of lovely affordable things to do for families, while they allow these injustices to go on. I know some people who are paying $5,000 for their taxes, and they are living in a run-down family home. Currently, I am looking for the right place to live and saving my money to move out. I am thinking of a place that is just cheap, because I have given up on all else.
kimberly | Brick, NJ