Why do NYers tend to hate New Jersey?
Nov 28, 2006, 5:02 pm
#32
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New Jersey is quite nice.
The portions that you typically see entering/leaving NY are terrible, full of refineries and dirty. Since most people never explore the state they are left to judge everything by one bad area in the northern part that abuts the city.
The portions that you typically see entering/leaving NY are terrible, full of refineries and dirty. Since most people never explore the state they are left to judge everything by one bad area in the northern part that abuts the city.
Nov 28, 2006, 7:05 pm
#33
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I think it's a love hate relationship. Because NJ is not NYC. Because we can laugh at NJ. Because it stinks and the roads don't line up.
When you're young and broke, you live in NJ and claim NYers are pretencious. But you come into the city & party all night and all weekends. Then the second you can afford Manhattan apartment, you sell your car & move back and laugh back at NJers. Gradually, you have kids or you bought too many pairs of shoes, and you make more money, you get sick of living in a small cage, and what else can you do? You move back to NJ (because Brooklyn is now as expensive). And in couple more years, your kids grow up, you get tired of people laughing at you living in Jersey, you move to Arizona or Texas.
When you're young and broke, you live in NJ and claim NYers are pretencious. But you come into the city & party all night and all weekends. Then the second you can afford Manhattan apartment, you sell your car & move back and laugh back at NJers. Gradually, you have kids or you bought too many pairs of shoes, and you make more money, you get sick of living in a small cage, and what else can you do? You move back to NJ (because Brooklyn is now as expensive). And in couple more years, your kids grow up, you get tired of people laughing at you living in Jersey, you move to Arizona or Texas.
Dec 4, 2006, 7:34 am
#35
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God bless whoever decided to put EWR right where it is. Keeps a lot of vermin out of the nicer parts of the state.
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Dec 4, 2006, 10:10 pm
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Honestly, I really don't care much for the state. I agree there are some nice areas but they are relatively few and far between. In general, taxes and crime are high. Those are two things that I don't really like to be high. I do kind of like the full serve gas as self serve prices. I like Italian women...there seem to be a fair number of them in NJ.
You know I think the toll road thing leaves a lot of visitors with a bad taste in their mouth. First impressions are everything and when you have to pay an admission tax to go to an area, some people tend not to like that. No, this is not unique to NJ but the tolls are pretty prominent.
Dec 4, 2006, 10:19 pm
#38
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We living in Manhattan must put up with the Jersey high hair, their horrific driving in NYC, their demanding of a seat on the subway despite the fact that their fat a...s 42 waist will not fit anywhere (when they get on at Penn Station they ruin any sense of a pleasant trip on the subway), their drunkness (try taking an early morning train from Penn Station to EWR and see what I mean) and the fact that most of New Jersey outside of Manhattan is either swamps, smelly old factories, or just run down areas (again taking the train from Penn Station to EWR will validate that fact). And don't get me started on EWR.
Dec 5, 2006, 5:50 am
#39
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You know what cracks me up is that I have a similar feeling about all the NYers in SFO. Many of them bring the same level of arrogance to San Francisco as is illustrated in your words about people from NJ. For some reason NYers feel entitled to go around the world comparing everything to NYC and constantly talking about how many of aspects of SF would be better if they were like NYC. (By the way, I love NYC...just hate the attitude)
Dec 11, 2006, 9:04 am
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I dont know why, but I never liked driving to/from/through NJ.
This was the reason I started flying in the first place.
Its difficult to avoid NJ if you want to drive anywhere west or south.
I dont like CT either.
Dec 15, 2006, 11:28 am
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