The advice in the first couple of posts is good and I'll give you the opposite take--I lived in Jersey my whole life until 3 years ago when, after making some money selling our house, my wife wanted to try Delaware--we had been trending south with our homes anyway and NJ is expensive so why not (I could commute to my job in PA as easily from either place) right? The two years we spent in DE ended up being the worst two years of our lives and we moved BACK to NJ a year ago and couldn't be happier--thank God we had rented and not bought a house. Yeah my property taxes are higher and we pay sales tax but the cost of living in New Castle county DE is really no cheaper. There are costs you just don't consider as much like: the state income taxes are significantly higher, to register a car in DE they charge you 2% of the blue book value of your car--you have anything new or fancy it will cost you! The traffic was worse than NJ, the drivers worse than even Boston's Ma$$holes, the schools were absolutely terrible (had to send my daughter to private school--another cost)--the list goes on. There are worse places to live than the Garden State!