Why do NYers tend to hate New Jersey?
Jan 14, 2007, 7:48 pm
#61
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LIers!
Touche on the LIers! 
Although LIers can be hard to spot apart from the natives since so many of them previously lived in the City. With NJers, that is almost never the case.
Brooklynites get a free pass since that is where all the hispters live now. IMHO, some parts of Manhattan are too gentrified and touristy to qualify as a real city living anymore- i.e. West Village. I'd take Park Slope or B'lyn Heights and even maybe Greenpoint over some part of Manattan nowadays.
Jayson
Although LIers can be hard to spot apart from the natives since so many of them previously lived in the City. With NJers, that is almost never the case.
Brooklynites get a free pass since that is where all the hispters live now. IMHO, some parts of Manhattan are too gentrified and touristy to qualify as a real city living anymore- i.e. West Village. I'd take Park Slope or B'lyn Heights and even maybe Greenpoint over some part of Manattan nowadays.
Jayson
Jan 15, 2007, 8:45 pm
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Too late, Mary. As a native New Yorker, growing up in Manhattan, I always made fun of NJ. For all the reasons mentioned on this thread.
But then I discovered parts of New Jersey I never knew existed:
1. The beautiful, green rolling hills of northwestern NJ.
2. The very quaint and picturesque Princeton area.
3. And my favorite, where we spent two weeks every summer for 15 years, the beautiful beaches of Long Beach Island.
So, Mary, no matter what you say, NJ does have a lot to offer, and I'll be back!
Jun 1, 2008, 8:44 pm
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im a jersey native currently living in south florida until i get the money to move back up north, i cant stan florida, everything is so far apart, and yea ill agree, i am one of the poeple who goes out to the city and contributes to the whole clogging up lincoln / holland tunnel, but never the bridge, but back to florida, it smells worse than jersey and crime has shot up (Miami), is a bunch of crap with not so much to do and to me, a fake tropical nyc, thats all i have to say about florida besides i plan to be back north by next summer