New Jersey

[Superfly]

Poll question: New Jersey

Suck or blow?

[meegbear]

1. New Jersey?

What exit?

[Superfly]

2. Let's look at the whole state...

(Yes, Cape May and points south of AC are beautiful, albeit expensive)

[bif]

3. Garden State my ass.

What a dump.

[KensPen]

5. Exit 8a here.....

bite me




that is all.

[Superfly]

7. So, you're from Stone Harbor or Cape May CH

My wife is from N Wildwood (Anglesea)...exit 6 off the parkway.

[KensPen]

8. OOOPS sorry...

that's my Turnpike Exit, sorry for not being more specific.

[Township75]

9. Try Garbage State*

They have so much trash in that state they actually pay other states to take it.

[TreasonousBastard]

44. Yes, but...

would you really rather live in place that TAKES our garbage?

[TreasonousBastard]

42. Just as a small aside...

it got the nick "Garden State" from the huge numbers of small truck farms that used to be here.

Some still are. We even have a few dairy farms left.

[nyrnyr1994]

4. In between suck and blow...

Need to hear more from each side before I decide...

[Shrek]

6. Decent album

Bad Medicine always gets my adrenalin flowing.

[soleft]

10. It's hallowed ground

I was born there

[CO Liberal]

13. Same Here

Born in Montclair - raised outside Morristown.

Mrs. CO Liberal is from East Brunswick.

[alwynsw]

21. You can't choose where you're born

but now that you're all growed up and haired over, you CAN get out!

[Zero Gravitas]

11. Got stranded in newark once

on my back from sailing from Martinique to Antgua. Plane was late and missed my connection back to fly-over land. They put me up in a hotel... 30 minutes of freeways and mostly run-down industrial wasteland to get ot he hotel. $10 to activate the phone. Very rude staff at the front desk, over priced drinks in the bar. The next morning I opened the curtains to see a large parking lot and beyond that a 20 ft high fencewith razor wire on top, and beyond the fence a prison. Rude people shoving into the check in/ security lines back at the airport. New Jersey exceeded my expectations. Haven't seen the rest of the state though :)

[bif]

14. If you think that's bad try the Jersey shore!

Jammed packed with rude people. You have to pay to go on the beach. And everyone sounds like Joey Bottafuco! My only comment was, "So this is hell."

[Township75]

15. I usually break out laughing when...

I hear some Jersey or New Yorker make fun of a southerners accent...I tell them about how classy they sound with that clothes pin stuck over their nose.

[amandae]

12. Never been there ...

but this is where my ancestors are from ;-)

:hi:

[Braden]

16. Lived in North Jersey for a year

hands down the most depressing year of my life.

[tjdee]

17. Thems fighting words, people!

There are a LOT of people here, it is very crowded....but...
Both our senators and our governor are Democrats, and we have voted Democratic for president for at least 12 years consecutively. Many of our Republicans are in fact conservative Democrats.

Plus, we're close to New York City, the center of the universe.

From where I sit, NJ ain't so bad.

In fact, up north we even got cows. Cows are nice.

:-)

Also, I don't *have* an accent! I don't say "cawfee" or "Joisey" or anything, and neither does anyone I know. I'm constantly mystified at how people always come up to me like "New Joisey, hahaha"...I'm always like, what the f*** are you talking about? Everyone who talks funny in New Jersey is probably from New York ;-) .

[CO Liberal]

20. Famous People From New Jersey

Grover Cleveland
Frank Sinatra
Connie Francis
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
The Shirrelles ("Will You Stilll Love Me Tomorrow")
Lou Costello
Bruce Springsteen
The Happenings ("See You In September")
Alfred Vail (helped Morse invent the telegraph)

Also, Thomas Edison did most of his most important work in Menlo Park and South Orange, NJ. The Seeing Eye trains guide dogs for the blind outside Morristown. And Thomas Nast drew many of his most famous drawings (including the ones that popularized the modern image on Santa Claus) while living in Morristown.

[KensPen]

26. You Forgot

bon Jovi

and Ken'sPen

[CO Liberal]

29. And CO Liberal

and Pete Lucia - original drummer for Tommy James & The Shondells.

I'm sure there are others.......

[TreasonousBastard]

37. And both...

Christina Aguilera and Pink

[youngred]

18. The Right Armpit of America

the land where the statewide pasttime involves duct tape, body bags and sleeping with fishes. Where the best thing to do is go to the Shore (come on its a beach for crissake, how cool can it be?). The blasted and stupid turnpike makes me wish to wretch with displeasure everytime I'm forced to use its confining confines. And what fucking dumbass decided it would be a good idea to name the rest stops after famous jerseyites? It's a fucking rest stop expensive gas, bad food, overpriced scholck and dirty bathrooms...and that's how you choose to honor the greatest residents of your state? The Garden state only if you count the pillbox gardens out people's windows and the accent is like fingernails on the chalkboard.

I could go on and on but I'll leave it at F*ck Jersey :P

[youngred]

33. man a screed like that can't even get a reply

I was (mostly) kidding but c'mon, aren't any jerseyites going to defend their very liberal and democratic state

[Superfly]

34. Democratic, yes

Liberal, no.

[TreasonousBastard]

39. I defend nothing about New Jersey...

because hardly anyone has seen anything but Newark Airport, the Turnpike, the Shore, and the malls. And Atlantic City.

They are all indefensible, but help keep those nasty strangers out, or at least in their place.

We hide the good stuff.

[yankeedem]

43. You claim to live in Washington and Rochester

and you have the nerve to say anything about NJ? The WORST thing you could say about Jersey is it reminds you of home.

[youngred]

46. The good things about Both can't be found anywhere in NJ

Upstate - Garbage Plates, Proximity to Canada, Snow, Fall, Foliage, Apples and accompanying festivals, snow days, Abbots Ice Cream, and the Raging Rhinos

DC- Free Museums and galleries, Beautiful architecture (as well as some ugly stuff), more temperate climate, Metro, vibrant night life, and is the center of things (which Jersey isn't in anything other than Hockey every once in awhile).

[alwynsw]

19. I had to go with other

If you could only cut the Cape May part of the state away from the trulay urban areas, you might have something worth keeping.

I spent enough time there to know that I will never voluntarily reside in that state.

Since I know that the must be some good and rational people residing there, I won't pick on it too much.

[booksenkatz]

22. Best boss I ever had was from NJ

I know absolutely zero about NJ and am unable to proffer a "sucks" or "blows" opinion, but the best boss I ever had was a proud native of that state. He was handsome, very charming, always pleasant, gregarious. But also very loud and not the sharpest tool in the shed. Is that the norm?
:shrug:

[geniph]

23. Parts suck, parts blow, and parts

are pretty darn nice. I liked the boardwalks along the beach. Wish we had stuff like that out on the Pacific coast.

[Monte Carlo]

24. New Jersey, home of intersections with a strip-mall in each corner.

Now, don't get me wrong, there are some very pretty spots in NJ, but it seems like the whole state developed too fast. You have residences, and shopping malls, and little else in many parts. Oh, and vast colonies of old people, my grandfather included...

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Other. It's Just Another Place

I don't hate it. I don't love it. It's Ok. We have two sites there that i visit at least once per year each. People are people, and places are places. I'm a bit jaded on the whole "great place/rotten place" thing, i guess.
The Professor

[GalleryGod]

27. Is This Ron O'Neil? Or Someone with Delusions of Grandeur?

Bite me twice.

I'll a put a Princeton neighborhood up against the one you're dug in.

Your Man in the Faculty Lounge,
G.G.

[Superfly]

28. The only good...er...great thing about New Jersey

is leaving it.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

30. Good setting for a mafia TV show.

[Superfly]

31. I think it's more of a Reality show...

I think the Sopranos is modeled after the McGreevey administration.

[name not needed]

32. the best place on earth

weve got some pretty wierd places. check out www.weirdnj.com

[name not needed]

35. the parts that suck

are either across the river from philadelphia or are by new york. everything else is pretty nice. the area i live in is nice but conservative. but no rw freeper types that give ingsoc praise 24/7

[TreasonousBastard]

36. Not updated for a long time, but...

http://home.mindspring.com/~wfnk/

[MrScorpio]

38. The New Jersey State Gestapo once gave me a ticket in that state

New Jersey can kiss my black ass.

[Kahuna]

41. Driving while black can be a challenge in NJ. However...

my 31 year old black son says things are improving.

[Kahuna]

40. Getting better all the time...

NJ has come a long way during my lifetime. Nj used to filled with rascist jerks. I don't see nearly as many rascist jerks as I used to see. NJ also has a lot to offer..... being next door to NY. :7

[sleipnir]

45. It has cheap gas and that's about it