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Top States Where You Can Achieve The American Dream · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Christine was drinking a hurricane the entire time that song
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  Speaker 1: was playing. She's Back from New Orleans Man one of
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  Speaker 1: six seven Light FM Cobb Christine producer Christen.
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  Speaker 2: They will put you in a good mood for just
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  Speaker 2: a certain amount.
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  Speaker 1: Of time, then you come crashing down. Well, we're happy
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  Speaker 1: you're back and you're at your home in New Jersey. Well,
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  Speaker 1: currently we're in midtown Manhattan, but we're all New Jersey peters, folks.
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  Speaker 1: So you me Kristin, and there's something about New Jersey
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  Speaker 1: that you're about to chat about.
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  Speaker 2: Cobby, who knew?
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  Speaker 1: Who knew?
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey is at the top of the list for
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  Speaker 2: achieving the American dream.
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  Speaker 1: Unreal, We have arrived.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So as hard as it may seem to us.
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  Speaker 1: It's nothing to do with the beauty, noess. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's beautiful state. I love.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna get to talking money here in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it's affordable, Okay, Well, I guess we have
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  Speaker 2: a good percentage of college degrees, home ownership, average salary,
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  Speaker 2: number of foreign born residents rate a vehicle, ownership, average debt,
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  Speaker 2: and life expectancy. In New Jersey. We've got the state's
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  Speaker 2: the country's longest life expectancy, which is living to seventy nine. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: the fourth highest in the US, fourth highest, sorry, And
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  Speaker 2: it gets high scores for diversity, twenty five percent of
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  Speaker 2: residents coming from other countries. So we love that. So
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey is number one for achieving the American dream.
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  Speaker 2: You can earn enough money to buy a home air quotes. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if you insist real.
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  Speaker 1: Quick, if somebody said to you, you didn't have this
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  Speaker 1: in front of you, Like, what do you think is
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  Speaker 1: the state where people could start their American dream?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe New Jersey in the top ten, but not number one,
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  Speaker 1: like I would I would think California.
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  Speaker 2: I would think, but California's guns, it's so expensive, trusive.
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  Speaker 2: See that's yeah, I think if like American dream is
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  Speaker 2: typically we think about our our lifestyle, right, our fans,
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  Speaker 2: whatever your family looks like to you, you know, your
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  Speaker 2: loved ones, Yeah, and kind a safe place to live,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a roof over your head, and school education
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  Speaker 2: if that's what you know, like skills whatever. I New
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  Speaker 2: Jersey doesn't seem like it's to me. It just seems
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  Speaker 2: so expensive. But it's number one. Massachusetts it's number two.
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  Speaker 2: This is if you want what we call the typical
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  Speaker 2: American dream kids. Connecticut comes in third.
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  Speaker 1: We're all club together, which.
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  Speaker 2: Again so expensive. Okay, Vermont, then Minnesota. Then at number
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  Speaker 2: six is New York. Number seven is Maryland, eight Illinois,
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  Speaker 2: nine New Hampshire, and ten Virginia where you do come from.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I starret in my life, Virginia. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everything except Minnesota is pretty much East. Yeah, there's no Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hear Seattle, Like what like the state of Washington. Yeah, yeah, California.
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  Speaker 1: Back to places are beautiful in Arizona. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: so many states I thought would be up there, but
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  Speaker 1: but interesting here shore. We love New Jersey. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about property taxes until we die.
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  Speaker 2: We will car insurance.
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  Speaker 1: But I love the greenery. It is the garden state
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  Speaker 1: for a reason, and I'll take it. And good school system, yes,
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  Speaker 1: shout out to all the teachers.
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  Speaker 2: I also want to say healthcare. I think we have
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  Speaker 2: really great healthcare New York, New Jersey, Connecticut We've got,
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  Speaker 2: you know, incredible hospitals. And I know that Boston does too.
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  Speaker 2: In a lot of states, but I just feel like
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  Speaker 2: our best doctors are right here.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and text us if you have any comments on
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  Speaker 1: this particular list here at four four three sixty three.
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  Speaker 1: We have a trivia battle coming up and Christina, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do something we've never done before. Okay, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do third grade questions. The two players are going to
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  Speaker 1: get third grade questions for Securit tickets.
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  Speaker 2: Fun.
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  Speaker 1: We'll explain why we're doing this. It's going to be fun.
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