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Typical transplants. "Moved to New York four years ago" and now all surprised about NJ and how it's actually not bad to live here. Uh huh. Reminds me of the total hipster couple I met at a bar in my town, Cranford, last month. They were from Brooklyn and their friends recently moved here and loved it, swore the weekend bar scene was good, and convinced them to go bar hopping with them downtown. Brooklyn hipster couple (very nice people btw) was really enjoying my town and having a great time at the bars. They said to me "yeah we're surprised it's so nice and trendy here." I smiled and agreed that it's very nice, crowded and trendy, but inside I'm like... seriously? What'd you think it was on the other side of the river, miles of farmland? Nothingness? Nothing cool, nothing "hip" and popular? There's more to life than the overpriced New York City. Reading that article, the prices for what you get are ridiculous. I would never live there unless I was rich or seriously seriously love the place I find and think it's 100% worth it. Otherwise... it's not (IMO). Even coming just across the river can be great, worth it, and still give you all the perks except living there/being there 24/7. It's especially great to move here once a couple starts a family. I'm glad they like it though.
exactly, Jerseygirl! I feel bad for you people in Jersey getting all these suburban reject "Brooklynites" into your towns and cities. That said, I am trying to get the hell out of Brooklyn and back to NJ at some point, but i'm originally from there and I swear I will never utter the word "brooklyn" which to my ears has become synonomous with smug pretentious awfulness. There's also nothing truly trendy about these turds, they're corny bearded and cankled sheep if anything.
Yup. And that used to be a great place where gay people moved!!! Now breeders are invading there and farting out their DNA and making it unliveable for people who don't like living in romper rooms. It's really sad what is going on.
exactly, Jerseygirl! I feel bad for you people in Jersey getting all these suburban reject "Brooklynites" into your towns and cities. That said, I am trying to get the hell out of Brooklyn and back to NJ at some point, but i'm originally from there and I swear I will never utter the word "brooklyn" which to my ears has become synonomous with smug pretentious awfulness. There's also nothing truly trendy about these turds, they're corny bearded and cankled sheep if anything.
Haha I don't necessarily mind that they're coming here, they can just sometimes be very annoying about it. This couple was very nice and down to earth but I don't doubt they were transplants to NYC themselves. Too fitting of the hipster mold to be native New Yorkers/Brooklynites. Didn't meet their friends who did actually move here, though, as they were inside the bar and we were sitting outside with Brooklyn couple by the fire pit the bar has. Apparently though Brooklyn to New Jersey couple like it very much here. Perhaps they will convert/convince Brooklyn hipster couple to move here, as well.
Some people living in NY (especially transplants in the outer boroughs) tend to act pretentious and like they're so much better for living in "the city", but honestly I wouldn't want an expensive 1 bedroom 5th floor walk-up apartment when I can live in NJ in a house with a yard and access to the city in an hour. It'a really not that bad, and I much prefer it here with space and a nice, quiet neighborhood. But that's just me. Not only are they pretentious in general but some of these people are among the worst NJ haters when they've probably never actually even been here, and are probably originally from some podunk Midwestern or Southern town or "city" anyway.
They love to put down people from Jersey and Long Island. It's a form of self-hatred because they know people from Jersey and Long Island are way more NY than their skinny pimpled hairy asses from the suburbs of Boise ever could be. I really really really really REALLY miss the website Diehipster! Such a refreshing breath of air in the oversaturated mommyblogging society of today's current internet.
Smells like an ad for Harmon Cove. (and incidentally smells are what you get in that part of Secaucus. No more pig farms, but the swamp still smells pretty swampy)
And seriously, you move to Harmon Cove and do a bus commute?
hahahaha. The meadowlands swamps smells like fresh baked bread and roses compared to the Gowanus on upwind days. Although I have no clue if what I smell these days is the actual canal or crap-filled diapers.
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I smiled and agreed that it's very nice, crowded and trendy, but inside I'm like... seriously? What'd you think it was on the other side of the river, miles of farmland? Nothingness? Nothing cool, nothing "hip" and popular? 
There's more to life than the overpriced New York City. Reading that article, the prices for what you get are ridiculous. I would never live there unless I was rich or seriously seriously love the place I find and think it's 100% worth it. Otherwise... it's not (IMO). Even coming just across the river can be great, worth it, and still give you all the perks except living there/being there 24/7. It's especially great to move here once a couple starts a family. I'm glad they like it though.
