Why I Moved to NC

[porgy75]

also went from paying $6k a year in auto insurance to $700 yr.
that's gone up (mostly my fault plus teen driver) to around $2k.

Your auto insurance went down about 90% to begin with, can those figures be accurate?
Even with some negative reports you are still paying 66% less than in NJ. That's a great bargain. I wonder how the companies down there can afford to make a profit at those reduced rates while the companies in NJ were complaining they were losing money. Something is definitely wrong with our NJ auto insurance system then.

[jonthepain]

Your auto insurance went down about 90% to begin with, can those figures be accurate?

yes. when they first quoted that to me, i thought they meant seven hundred bucks a month. i said i thought it sounded a little high. he said, well that comes out to such and such a month, you can pay monthly if you want, - i just about fell over. i gave him a check for the first year as fast as i could write it in case he had screwed up somehow. lol

i found out the hard way tho that they do not have no-fault here. i was used to nj so when i had an accident i told the cop "yeah maybe it was my fault, so what?" so i got binged for the whole deal. i don't even think it was my fault, but i was so used to no-fault insurance that i just blurted that out like anybody really cares who's fault it is anyway. ha ha boy did i learn.

maybe that's one reason why nj ins is so high. plus about a billion people all packed into 3 sq feet of space. especially compared to down here.

btw salaries are a lot lower here...

[skinner]

maybe that's one reason why nj ins is so high. plus about a billion people all packed into 3 sq feet of space. especially compared to down here.

btw salaries are a lot lower here...

A billion people, and 10% of that number is lawyers waiting to sue for the slightest hurt or the smallest auto accident. It sounds like you have a pretty decent life down there.