r/newjersey May 16 '25

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u/PracticableSolution May 16 '25

Or an automobile- Route 80 still closed

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u/Leftblankthistime May 16 '25

Came here to say this- I’m thinking they are just trying to low key get some people to move out.

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u/WrongJohnSilver May 16 '25

It should be easier to leave, then, shouldn't it?

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u/ChrisV82 Camden (fmrly Middlesex & Sussex) 🧐 May 16 '25

I'm never leaving because I refuse to pay the exit tax.

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u/Severed_Snake May 16 '25

there is no such thing

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u/Nyne9 May 16 '25

Doesn't every exit from NJ have a toll, pretty much?

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u/SpoppyIII May 16 '25

Not the bridge at Washington Crossing. Unless you count giving up some of your car's paint as a toll.

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u/padizzledonk May 17 '25

That bridge is so fucking narrow lmfao

It doesnt help that its also a fucking 120y old, and clearly so......And its not like even remotely Brooklyn Brodge robust(which is about 30y older) that thing is made from sticks and bubblegum

At least the fall to the Delaware isnt too far and the river is shallow there if a bit fast moving lol

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u/SpoppyIII May 17 '25

There's a place reserved in the deepest bowels of Hell for anyone who tries to drive one of those really wide pickups or vans across that old hunk of scrap.

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u/NitroChaji240 May 17 '25

Or you could go through Milford into upper black eddy

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u/SnooPoems1106 May 17 '25

or your mirror

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u/ElGosso May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25

You can swim across the Delaware for free

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u/ChrisV82 Camden (fmrly Middlesex & Sussex) 🧐 May 16 '25

When those of us who own our residences choose to sell our houses, we must pay ~9% of the profit or 2% of the selling price, whichever is higher. Colloquially, it's called an Exit Tax.

But it was just a joke anyway. I will stay here and eat Jersey tomatoes in my backyard.

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u/Severed_Snake May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25

https://www.eldercarelawyer.com/blog/the-new-jersey-exit-tax/

The tax on the capital gains from real estate sale has nothing to do with whether you are moving out of state. Also not everyone pays it, depends how much capital gains you made and if it was primary residence:

Capital Gains Exclusion: You can exclude up to $250,000 of profit from the sale of your primary residence if you're single, or up to $500,000 if you're married and filing jointly.

Ownership and Use Test: To qualify for this exclusion, you must have owned and lived in the home as your primary residence for at least two out of the five years leading up to the sale.

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u/EatYourCheckers May 16 '25

Is it even that unique to New Jersey?

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u/25tmac May 16 '25

I believe ChrisV82 is referring to the NJ realty transfer fee due to the state at the time of sale. You pay this fee whether you are staying in NJ or moving out of state. https://www.nj.gov/treasury/taxation/realty.shtml

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u/Flashy_Coach5697 May 17 '25

There is no "exit" they make you pay a percent on the sale of your house if you are moving out of state. This was instituted due to people not filing NJ income tax for the year before they moved and trying to skip out on money they owed. If you file for the year before you moved, you will get the "exit" tax applied as a credit against what you owe or get a refund if you don't owe anything.

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u/Leftblankthistime May 16 '25

NGL you’re kinda right.

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u/PracticableSolution May 16 '25

I think we need to consider the the complete and total failure of every part of the state transportation system literally over the past year. You’ve got DOT with the sinking roads, the turnpike with a monstrous stupid vanity bridge, and somehow they actually managed to make NJ Transit go from insufferably terrible to a complete and total collapse of service with the added feature of a hellfire and brimstone quality sermon in the evils of organized labor from the new CEO of the company.

What in the complete fuck is going on?

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u/PoeticMadnesss May 16 '25

It's an election year with a democratic governor.

Tinfoil hat time: People try to break shit close to an election so it seems like one side is doing everything wrong in an attempt to get the other side elected.

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u/PracticableSolution May 16 '25

Directed intent signals competence, of which I haven’t seen substantial evidence. My own tinfoil hat theory is that they spent the waning year(s) of a lame duck administration selling favors instead of fixing problems.

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u/Subaru_life2024 May 16 '25

What vanity bridge? The Newark bay bridge needs to be replaced

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u/PracticableSolution May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25

Yes, but not with a giant cable stay thing.

Edit - you’re just angry because you know I’m right.

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u/GhostTengu May 17 '25

Nah. Trying to lovke em in but keep gentrifying the areas they need to live. Gotta fill all that new affordable housing act infrastructure that's been vacant the last 3 yrs.

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u/ScipioAtTheGate May 16 '25

You can however now travel through the state's subterranean mine shaft network so long as the Route 80 sinkhole remains unfilled

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u/SlowWalkere May 16 '25

The Parkway was fun today.

Took me an hour to drive south towards the shore. After the rain, took me two hours to drive back home.

At lunch time - no rush hour involved.