Perth Amboy

1. Amazinging beautiful waterfront that almost no one outside the city knows about.
2. Great diversity of population.
3. Long and interesting history dating from about 1684.
4. It was the place where my family started when emigrated to US in early 1900s.
5. Someone once baked brownies and put them out for the public during a City Council meeting. Come on. Where else you gonna get that?

1. Increasing problems with crime.
2. Quality of life issues such as noise and vandalism are a problem--combined with crime (real or preceived) continuing to drive out middle class
3. Property taxes are incredibly high and have just been raised again this quarter to cover money not received from state; large low income and lower middle class population is at limits of ability to pay; people being driven out
4. We are an Abbott district, so there are school issues.
5. Lack of participation in community issues by a public that often seeems disengaged and ill-informed (some language issues here because many people don't speak English); cronyism and past corruption in city government with all sorts of negative consequences