When are you considered to be from NJ? (living in, legal)

[Maast]

Originally Posted by EBWick

You're officially a New Jerseyan after you've:

- successfully navigated a traffic circle and figured out a jug handle,
- survived a trip to the DMV without going insane,
- ate a taylor ham, egg & cheese sandwich for breakfast,
- got stuck in 3 hours of traffic going "down the Shore"
- NEVER, EVER pumped your own gas

Done all of that, except I've pumped my own gas in NY

Originally Posted by Irish Eyes

When I was pregnant with my son we had recently moved here from NYC. I was supposed to be induced on a Tuesday morning and my husband started his leave on that Monday. He started a day early it so we could take care of some things - including getting our NJ driver licenses. I went into labor early that morning but we still went to the DMV. I told them I wanted to make sure my son was born a legal resident of NJ!

Why does it matter that he was born legal resident of NJ? lol

[Irish Eyes]

[quote=EBWick;23587973]You're officially a New Jerseyan after you've:

- successfully navigated a traffic circle and figured out a jug handle,
- survived a trip to the DMV without going insane,
- ate a taylor ham, egg & cheese sandwich for breakfast,
- got stuck in 3 hours of traffic going "down the Shore"
- NEVER, EVER pumped your own gas[/quote]

I'm out. But the DMV here is downright pleasant!

[tahiti]

[quote=Irish Eyes;23588111]

Originally Posted by EBWick

You're officially a New Jerseyan after you've:

- successfully navigated a traffic circle and figured out a jug handle,
- survived a trip to the DMV without going insane,
- ate a taylor ham, egg & cheese sandwich for breakfast,
- got stuck in 3 hours of traffic going "down the Shore"
- NEVER, EVER pumped your own gas[/quote]

I'm out. But the DMV here is downright pleasant!

MVC is a joy compared to what it used to be. Since the overhaul, I've never spent more than 10 minutes there per visit (and that includes going to Trenton).

[Summering]

Originally Posted by EBWick

You're officially a New Jerseyan after you've:

- successfully navigated a traffic circle and figured out a jug handle,
- survived a trip to the DMV without going insane,
- ate a taylor ham, egg & cheese sandwich for breakfast,
- got stuck in 3 hours of traffic going "down the Shore"
- NEVER, EVER pumped your own gas

Hurray! Thats me...
I was born in NJ and lived there until I was about 30. After that we lived in PA and now SC.
I did all those things, but the taylor ham. But, perhaps it counts as our daughter loves a taylor ham sandwich.
(Oh yes the Ledgewood Circle!)

[Maast]

[quote=tahiti;23588189]

Originally Posted by Irish Eyes

MVC is a joy compared to what it used to be. Since the overhaul, I've never spent more than 10 minutes there per visit (and that includes going to Trenton).

The Lodi DMV is renovated rather well

[NJGOAT]

If we want to get technical, the use of the word "native" by definition means being born in a certain place. So, the only way you can be a "native of NJ" would have been to be born in NJ. Think Kyle in the South Park "Jersey" episode. He was a "native" of NJ and it was in his DNA, but he had never lived there.

That takes us to the other term that was used, being "from" NJ. I think anyone who was raised here or spent the majority of their life here can be considered to be "from" NJ. Anything else is pretty much just living here for a period of time and does not confer any title, though you could snag the "NJ" badge on FourSqaure, lol.

So, in the case of the OP, by definition you are not a native, but you are definitely from NJ, moreso than even some natives are.

As for me, I am a native and I am from NJ. I was born here and I've spent 26 of my 31 years living here, with only one of them not as an official resident. Four years were spent in Boston for college and one year in Texas for work. During that time I was always identified as being "from NJ".

[Maast]

Originally Posted by NJGOAT

If we want to get technical, the use of the word "native" by definition means being born in a certain place. So, the only way you can be a "native of NJ" would have been to be born in NJ. Think Kyle in the South Park "Jersey" episode. He was a "native" of NJ and it was in his DNA, but he had never lived there.

That takes us to the other term that was used, being "from" NJ. I think anyone who was raised here or spent the majority of their life here can be considered to be "from" NJ. Anything else is pretty much just living here for a period of time and does not confer any title, though you could snag the "NJ" badge on FourSqaure, lol.

So, in the case of the OP, by definition you are not a native, but you are definitely from NJ, moreso than even some natives are.

As for me, I am a native and I am from NJ. I was born here and I've spent 26 of my 31 years living here, with only one of them not as an official resident. Four years were spent in Boston for college and one year in Texas for work. During that time I was always identified as being "from NJ".

Well I guess if you go by the strict definition, though think of it this way...who is more connected with NJ? a person who is born and moves out to California at age 1 or a person who moves to NJ at age one and spends his childhood/adolescence in the state...

[NJGOAT]

Originally Posted by Maast

Well I guess if you go by the strict definition, though think of it this way...who is more connected with NJ? a person who is born and moves out to California at age 1 or a person who moves to NJ at age one and spends his childhood/adolescence in the state...

Obviously the person who moved to NJ at age 1 and spent their life living here. I was really just making a semantical argument over the definitions.

The person who was born here is a "native", but they are not "from" here.

The person who wasn't born here is not a "native", but they are definitely "from" here.

[Maast]

Originally Posted by NJGOAT

Obviously the person who moved to NJ at age 1 and spent their life living here. I was really just making a semantical argument over the definitions.

The person who was born here is a "native", but they are not "from" here.

The person who wasn't born here is not a "native", but they are definitely "from" here.

Well interestingly enough I identify more with my ethnic heritage more than anything else as I've grown up in an insular environment of that heritage and spent time in my country of heritage every year for several months. I guess after that I come to identify with the parts of North NJ I've grown up in and till this day call home. The country where I was born and spent 1 year of my life, I don't connect with at all.

[CaptainNJ]

Originally Posted by Maast

Well, actually the place where I was born has nothing to do with my actual heritage.

Originally Posted by Maast

Though now, I'm at university

seems to have something to do with it. that second quote places you as a non-american to me.