Ah, the lush Garden State.
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Looking to Move? Steer Clear of the Garden State
I was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and I lived in the Garden State for seventeen years before heading off to college. Since then, I have lived in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Hawaii. I have traveled to France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Mexico, Canada, and to most states in the U.S. And I can honestly say that the State of New Jersey, the state in which I presently reside, is one of the very worst places in the world in which to live. Here are five reasons not to move to New Jersey.(1) The Jersey Shore. This is where I now live, in a small town community called Point Pleasant Beach. Today, now that it is 58 degrees outside, I can freely step onto the beach without some teenager examining the costly badge on my swimsuit to be sure I paid my money to sit on a filthy stretch of sand with thousands of other people (just about all of them from Northern New Jersey), debating whether or not I want to enter the water and risk a syringe to the ankle. Now that the summer is over, the beach is finally free. And Point Pleasant and its surrounding communities are finally free of the cheesy, gold chain-wearing, open-shirt, eighties-style guidos with their Gotti boy haircuts and IROC-Z pimped out autos with neon lights underneath.
(2) TGI Fridays. For a quick bite and a beer, I have no problem with these chain restaurants, Bennigans, Houlihans, Chilis, and TGI Fridays included. But they are everywhere here in the Garden State, and that’s where many New Jersey folks actually choose to spend their Friday nights.
(3) The City. I worked as an attorney in New York City for five years. During that time, I lived in Hoboken, which isn’t so bad as far as living in Jersey goes. Yet still, when someone in the City asked me where I lived, I’d give them an address in Murray Hill or Battery Park. Because while people from New Jersey love the City, people from the City hate New Jersey. Manhattanites cringe when they hear you are from Jersey, which is often referred to as the armpit of New York. And frankly, I can’t say I blame them.
- Jersey is often referred to as the armpit of New York.
- How many twenty-four hour diners does one state need?
- It's meant to be a humor piece, so please don't leave me nasty comments.
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(Guest)
(Guest)
01/23/2010
hey, don't let the door hit you in the ass!!! Most people who leave the state have to because they can't afford it. Talk about unsophisticated white trash, go back to one of your inbred,toothless states ( louisianna, mississippi, florida,west virginia, nevada tennassee get my point! good! GET THE HELL OUT!!!!
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(Guest)
(Guest)
01/04/2010
appealing lifestyle by comparison.
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(Guest)
(Guest)
01/04/2010
strong enough word. People move here to raise families for whatever reason they think they can't wherever they came from, there's very much a sense of being "in a bubble" here brought on by whatever neurotic fears of the real world led people to think they couldn't raise their families back there, it's literally a state of uptight squares, I get profiled everywhere I go just for being ages 18-30, and my appearance would if anything still be considered somewhat conservative in most other places in the states I've lived.
New Jersey can change if its younger citizens take a political stand in order to even have their existence as taxpayers acknowledged by local governments, truthfully I feel like a second-class citizen living here, In a place with so few young people though I doubt it will ever happen. The best we can do is just all move out until the place starves to death financially and then rebuild it into something that doesn't make living on a farm in North Dakota sound like an a
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(Guest)
(Guest)
01/04/2010
"Better than Iowa!"
There ya have it folks! Even the people who think they have something to be proud of here are forced to keep their standards that low. I think it's really funny when people talk about having pride in NJ, I wonder if they are so used to the sound of desperation in their own voices they don't even recognize it as such any more. Read some demographics; if you're between the ages of 18 and 30, this place is awful, it's right there in black n white. There are 8.5mil people here, 7mil are families, good amount of the remainder are seniors. NJ is 4th worst place in country for renters; you pay so much to live here you can never save enough to get out; it's like you're paying top dollar to remain trapped. Raise your hands if you know what "the choking game" is! Raise your hands if you know of something similar classmates of yours macguyvered at a tender age to escape the barely believable amount of nothing there is to do, it's a complete cultural.. "wasteland" is not a s
New Jersey sucks
(Guest)
(Guest)
01/02/2010
There is nothing good about New Jersey. New Jersey is a cesspool. Japanese would have done us a favor if they bombed New Jersey instead of Pearl Harbor.
Jessica
(Guest)
(Guest)
12/28/2009
I noticed many of the people writing comments on here don't know how to spell, yet Jersey people are dumb. Incase you haven't seen the show "Jersey shore" and yet made stupid comments regarding it, the majority of the cast isn't from Jersey. I've lived in Jersey for 33 years. I will not say every area of Jersey is great but there is grey spots in every state. Jersey is known to have the wealthiest people incase you didn't read up on that fact and beautiful towns. I think the people who hate Jersey should leave and go judge the next state you enter because I'm sure you will have negative things to say wherever you are, maybe it's you not the state!!!!!!
Sick of Jersey
(Guest)
(Guest)
12/20/2009
Furthermore, I can't stand how rude people are, here. I can't stand the traffic, and the horrible pollution (I live and work in Newark... the "nicer" part of Newark). People have this false sense of entitlement. You can see it in their driving, their mannerisms, and their general attitudes. The only thing good about New Jersey is Rutgers University in NB. Real estate and taxes are a rip off. The state is in major financial trouble. Did I mention corruption is rampant, here? Just do a google search on what happened this summer with a bunch of politicians and shady dealings.
This is the worst place to raise a family. Get the hell out before it's too late. I'm counting down the days...
P.S. Jersey Shore is so stupid. In New Jerseyans' defense, most people I know don't act or look like that. (I, for one, don't!)
Sick of Jersey
(Guest)
(Guest)
12/20/2009
I was born and raised here. I'm 30 years old. I'm originally from Bergen County, then lived in New Brunswick, then Union and Essex Counties.
Hopefully, this will be my last year in this place. I plan on relocating. $200 K won't even get me a shack, here, and I could have a luxury condo for that price in some other states.
Claire
(Guest)
(Guest)
12/17/2009
Guess what, everybody --
I've lived in New Jersey for about 3/4 of my 17 years, and it sucks. I hate it. But, in defense of my home state, the people here are not idiots. You'll get dumb people in any state, sure, and we have those; however, I know a lot of really brilliant teachers and students. To categorize an entire state and label it as "home of the guidos, rednecks, and idiots" is frankly just ridiculous.
RU grad in Fla
(Guest)
(Guest)
12/17/2009
trust me...no one is jealous of NJ.Its the Garbage State.
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