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Originally Posted by K.O.N.Y
Get enough of mentioning new york and philly. Stop holding them as crutches. You confuse these poor people the southeast.midwest.west coast basically people that have never stepped foot in the northeast. That new jersey-new york-philly act like this one big state. When in reality philly and new york could careless about new jersey. We actually live in places with an identity. We could careless about metropolitan areas  Or the fact that some people from north new jersey "play" in manhattan,or wished jersey city was looked at by the world as a "sixth borough" or brooklyn west |
Ok, there is no point explaining anything to you because you're completely un-realistic and arrogant.
But I will say this.
New Jersey is the 4th smallest state, and it offers a lot for its size. Not that most people acknowledge this or anything, but when people talk about how it is sandwiched between Philly and NYC, it's just the advantage NJ has over almost every single state in the nation in terms of educational and economic success.
I don't know why you hate the state so much, but do you really expect NJ to develop some major independent city with its own msa inbetween NYC and Philly? That calls for an unhealthy standard of living- And even if people say "NJ doesn't have any true major cities" The way JC and Newark border each other and still have a smaller land area than most major cities when combined, It's a job market that beats the hell out of 80% of American cities. Don't forget that these two cities are amongst the least car dependent cities, so access between the two is something of an advantage (especially when NYC is the 3rd power house in the vicinity, but that apparently doesn't count because you're some kind of crazy)
Some quick facts:
Moderator cut: link removed, linking to competitor sites is not allowedNJ- 4th most educated state
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NJ is the wealthiest state[/url]
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Moderator cut: link removed, linking to competitor sites is not allowedNJ has the 4th lowest poverty rates
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Moderator cut: link removed, linking to competitor sites is not allowedNJ is the 16th healthiest state(that's not amazing, but it's better than 34 states can say)
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Rankings in Crime (out of 50 states)
(1 = Worst, 50 = Best)
Assault: 35
Burglary: 44 < 6th lowest in the nation
Murder: 26
Motor Vehicle Theft: 32
Rape: 50 < Lowest in the nation.
Robbery: 16
Overall- NJ is the 16th safest state.
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With all this factored in- NJ comes out as #8 in the
Best state to live. (Of course this is an opinion, but this is based off the quality of things like education/poverty rates/high paying jobs/efficiency etc and NJ ranks well in all these things)
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NJ's access to so much in such short distances is another advantage the state has over most, but I guess it's fair to pretend like that's not the case after all I've already just said.
NJ has the highest cost of living in the US because it has access to NYC and Philadelphia- IF we have to pay so much to live here because of that, then I think we have all the right in the world to factor in the states phenomenal access and location being sandwiched between Philly and NYC. We're a part of the NYC and Philly metros, but we can't be associated with the cities we're a big part of? The 4th smallest state, out of boundaries by only a border with no other city/town in the way of NYC and Philly-- You outsiders have absolutely no room to talk using that kind of logic.
The ATL metro is no different from the NYC metro in NJ. Keep pushing the "state boundaries as a great wall" theory on one of the smallest states between NYC and Philly, what kind of argument are you going to make with that?
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Now please, go away, I don't think there's anymore you can add- You've contradicted yourself to death by saying "NYers can care less about NJ" when you've been trolling every topic with NJ in the title.
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). I remember as a school kid riding the school bus and this kid who had moved to New Jersey for a while then came back almost caught a beating because he was going on and on arguing that New Jersey was better than Georgia. I could go on and on and on about all the Georgians I know and their New Jersey connections. Lately, however the South has become more appealing to Blacks and they are moving in very large numbers from the North to Georgia. I'm not sure how much of that migration back South is from the New Jersey area but it seems to me that Blacks from the Midwest seem to be much more likely to move our way than those from Jersey. Although just last month I met a couple of young African Americans that had recently moved down here from Trenton and Newark.
