where'd you end up moving to? I've been thinking for the last year to leave nj too. I'm making around 50k a year, single, and takes considerable effort to find something decent to rent that's 1k or less that isn't in the hood. even with that price 9/10 times it's a studio apartment. plus i'm not much of a people person and I feel there's just too many people here for my taste... Tennessee or Maine i'm slowly looking into.