Is New Jersey More Like Maryland or Connecticut (live, moving)
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As usual, posters thoroughly read the OP and made every effort to address each one of its criteria before answering.
No one has even mentioned the most obvious difference, which is the tremendous impact the federal government has on Maryland's economy, which isn't true of NJ and CT. Maryland has the second highest percentage of federal employment after Hawaii whereas Connecticut and New Jersey are at the very bottom of the list. Maryland has the highest percentage of civilan federal employment of any state.
This doesn't even factor in the 80,987 procurement contracts awarded to Maryland-based companies. That's why Maryland's economy was able to keep chugging along during the Great Recession while nearly everyone else floundered. It's also why government shutdowns, or the risk thereof, have a much more profound impact on Maryland's economy than it does on New Jersey's.
My dad is from Connecticut and been there multiple times. Specifically Darien..... Connecticut has a New England vibe where as New Jersey has a midatlantic vibe of course. New Jersey has more in common with Maryland than Conneticut besides topography and weather.
As usual, posters thoroughly read the OP and made every effort to address each one of its criteria before answering.
No one has even mentioned the most obvious difference, which is the tremendous impact the federal government has on Maryland's economy, which isn't true of NJ and CT. Maryland has the second highest percentage of federal employment after Hawaii whereas Connecticut and New Jersey are at the very bottom of the list. Maryland has the highest percentage of civilan federal employment of any state.
This doesn't even factor in the 80,987 procurement contracts awarded to Maryland-based companies. That's why Maryland's economy was able to keep chugging along during the Great Recession while nearly everyone else floundered. It's also why government shutdowns, or the risk thereof, have a much more profound impact on Maryland's economy than it does on New Jersey's.
This doesn't determine which states have more incommon with the other. That's one factor but there are many other factors that play into this.
This doesn't determine which states have more incommon with the other. That's one factor but there are many other factors that play into this.
The OP stated the factors.
Demographics
Weather
History
Lifestyle
Economy
Landscape
Infrastructure
Recreation
Politics
Demographics, history and economy go to Connecticut directly off the bat. These things can be easily proven using Google searches. Even infrastructure, to a large extent, goes to Connecticut since much of NJ was settled earlier. I fail to see how New Jersey could be more similar to Maryland than Connecticut when Northern New Jersey was settled by Yankees pushing down into the state from Connecticut. That's at least part of the reason why North Jersey has some of the oldest suburbs in America whereas Maryland has some of the newest. This settlement difference also partly explains why the Northern Vowel shift exists in NJ while it doesn't exist in Maryland at all.
Then there's the fact, as one poster already noted, that chunks of NJ and CT are part of the NYC metro area.
All of the other criteria are mishy mushy and don't really mean anything (recreation and lifestyle?) Politics is a wash since all three states are liberal. The difference is that CT and NJ have a White, ethnic flair to their politics.
New Jersey and Connecticut also have Ivy League schools. Maryland doesn't. And in some ways, Princeton and Yale are still bastions (or at least symbols) of elite, WASP society for which there really isn't any comparable in Maryland.
Last edited by BajanYankee; 02-10-2015 at 01:44 PM..
People from New Jersey must be different depending on what part it is, but clearly, more people reside in north and central jersey, which are more like NY and Philadelphia. I guess south jersey way south of Camden is the only part like Maryland. They even talk kind of southern down there, by the way. It's true tho, it has more of a mid-atlantic atmosphere to it compared to Connecticut, but Maryland itself does not define the whole Mid-Atlantic, because NYC, Long Island and Westchester are also quote unquote Mid-atlantic.
To a considerable extent, New York City acts like barrier which is why New Jersey seems to be separated off more from Connecticut.
On the other hand, there's quite a lot of unimpeded traffic going back-and-forth between Washington DC and New York City along I-95 and the NJ turnpike. So, that may be part of the reason why there's been a stronger connection between New Jersey and Maryland. At least, that's my observation.
New Jersey and Maryland have nothing in common. Forget about it. The only thing separating Connecticut from New Jersey are tolls, NY state and the Hudson river. You can see nyc from New Jersey and NY is right next door to Connecticut.
New Jersey and Maryland have nothing in common. Forget about it. The only thing separating Connecticut from New Jersey are tolls, NY state and the Hudson river. You can see nyc from New Jersey and NY is right next door to Connecticut.
........ Maryland and New Jersey have many things in common. I've lived in both states, you clearly have never traveled through New Jersey because then you would know how inaccurate you are.
Also New Jersey isn't located in New England btw.
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) Politics is a wash since all three states are liberal. The difference is that CT and NJ have a White, ethnic flair to their politics. 
