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Nationwide ranking of retirement cities shows New Jersey is going to cost you
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Gen X Retirement: 45% Face Shortfalls
Retirement is supposed to be a golden phase, but for many Gen Xers it might not be.
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Financial publication WalletHub ranked nearly 180 cities to see which ones were the best places for retirees. And it seems that people might want to retire in any number of places other than New Jersey.
Jersey City and Newark were the two New Jersey cities listed in the ranking, in the 156th and 178th positions respectively. The ranking considered 45 metrics that included cost of living, tax laws, health care and availability of recreational activities. Both New Jersey cities scored particularly poorly in the benchmarks regarding affordability.
That is consistent with a previous WalletHub ranking of states, which placed the Garden State in second to last place as a retirement location, mostly because of affordability issues.
On the other hand, Florida took the cake, with Orlando and Miami ranking in the first two positions. The lack of estate, inheritance and state income tax along with a plethora of recreational activities and centers for seniors makes these two cities an ideal place for retirees, the ranking says.
Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and St. Petersburg were three other Florida cities that ranked in the top ten positions for similar reasons.
According to the ranking, both neighboring New York City and Philadelphia offer better conditions for retirees. While New York ranked as the least affordable, it scored high in the quality of life and recreation benchmarks. Philadelphia boasted a higher score in terms of affordability, recreational activities, quality of life and health care.
Here’s how some U.S. places ranked:
Overall Rank
City
Affordability
Activities
Quality of Life
Health Care
1
Orlando, FL
9
16
74
35
2
Miami, FL
56
2
89
27
3
Minneapolis, MN
93
7
79
6
32
Philadelphia, PA
124
33
64
45
36
San Francisco, CA
173
1
41
78
47
Jacksonville, FL
10
126
77
123
80
Honolulu, HI
180
14
2
61
115
Buffalo, NY
133
45
107
120
131
New Haven, CT
150
139
144
1
135
New York, NY
182
19
27
76
139
Yonkers, NY
177
65
55
14
156
Jersey City, NJ
172
90
63
59
175
Bridgeport, CT
175
154
153
19
178
Newark, NJ
159
87
163
118
182
San Bernardino, CA
126
172
172
172
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'That's not my dress!' NJ family desperately searches for mother's missing wedding gown
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TEANECK, New Jersey — A bride-to-be from New Jersey is searching near and far after realizing her mother’s wedding dress wasn’t in the box she’d kept safe for decades.
Christina Pereira remembers the day she found her perfect wedding dress.
“I just looked in the mirror and I knew that it was my dress. So, I put it on and I just felt like a princess,” Christina said.
Christina and her husband Luis tied the knot 30 years ago at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
She had her dress cleaned, boxed, and preserved just in case one day she would have a daughter who wanted it — and she did.
“My mother was like, ‘Okay, it’s time, let’s open up this box, you’ve been waiting.’ Well, she’s been waiting for over 30 years for this,” her daughter Samantha said.
Samantha is engaged and planning to wed next year in her mom’s dress.
“We pulled it out of the closet, we popped open the seal, and we took it out and I lifted it and it looked off to me. It didn’t look like my dress,” Christina said.
“She helped me put on the dress and she was looking at me and I was expecting her to cry and she didn’t. And I was like, ‘Do I not look good in this?’ And then she realized, ‘That’s not my dress,” Samantha said.
The bride-to-be’s mother had her dress cleaned, boxed, and preserved 30 years ago… or so she thought.
East Side Dry Cleaners in Newark — which prepped Christina’s dress for storage — is out of business.
Desperate to find the right dress and return this one to its owner, Samantha turned to social media.
The video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, and they’ve even got some close calls from women checking their wedding dress boxes.
None were Christina’s and no one has claimed this one, but they are optimistic.
“I walked down the aisle in this dress. I was blessed by our priest in this dress. It’s sentimental for me,” Christina said.
If you think you’re the missing link in the dress mix-up, they would love to hear from you.
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N.J. assemblywoman pushes to create an office to combat eating disorders
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Katz, whose two daughters are 13 and 15, said, “Many people are in the shadows and are ashamed to talk about it. It’s a big issue that’s becoming worse, and we need to do something about it. I want them to have their self-confidence and know that their worth is not based on what they ate for dinner that night.”
Wentz pointed out that eating disorders affect different populations disproportionately.
“A 2019 study found that Hispanic and Latina and Latino, and Black, African American and Asian Americans, are more likely to engage in disordered eating behaviors than their white counterparts,” she said.
A separate study found people of color with eating disorders are half as likely to be diagnosed or to receive treatment.
Mendel said educating kids, as well as their parents, about eating disorders is necessary.
“You know, the conversation starts at home first. It’s really, really important to have open and honest conversations, because when a child feels they can have an open and honest conversation, that’s when the help really starts,” she said.
Wood said if someone suspects a friend or loved one has an eating disorder, they need to be able to listen to that person.
“Have that initial conversation with someone, but never approach it from a ‘You, you, you’ perspective. Express your concerns that you have, and then give them the opportunity to open up and to talk to you,” he said.
People who believe they suffer from an eating disorder should reach out to their primary care physician and a mental health professional, Wentz said.
A list of provider organizations is on the New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies’ website.
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