I still live with my dad.

I would loooooovvve my own house, but urf, buying a house is such an expensive and complicated proposition. I don't think I could afford to continue living in New Jersey on my own, though. Real estate and real estate taxes are just way, way too high and the jobs certainly aren't paying no where near enough to keep up with it. I foresee a LOT of empty homes popping up around here when the older generations disappear and all that's left are just a lot of broke young people living paycheck to paycheck who never got the jobs they needed to afford these places.

Not to mention around my area, ALL the major corporations are moving out and are disappearing rapidly. Honeywell, Metlife, and Modelez all left very recently, and that's a lot of vacancies now.

I'd hate to say it, but if something happened to my dad, I'd SELL THE HOUSE AND RUN.