Likes/Dislikes About NJ People (Highlands, Atlantic Highlands: houses, construction, top)

[njmike]

Originally Posted by nicolem

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Absolutely!

If you lose the New Jersey in you, I'll come after you and kidnap you back to NJ with no chance of leaving.

[nicolem]

Originally Posted by njmike

If you lose the New Jersey in you, I'll come after you and kidnap you back to NJ with no chance of leaving.

Sounds good

[njmike]

I'm fortunate in that I'm only 2 1/2 hours from the Jersey shore and NYC. I can still go "home again" and still get the NYC rush.

[njmike]

The only complaint I have with people in NJ is that there aren't that many here in NEPA!!! No matter where I've lived, I always tell people I'm from NEW JERSEY!!!!!!!

[JoeSo]

Originally Posted by WoodturnerMike

I don't like rude, crude, loud and obnoxious people. Nor do I care for lazy, dirty, slovenly people. You can also keep arrogant types. You can find them in all 50 states.

You can also find some of the nicest people in all 50 states.

I've traveled all over this country and don't believe in the stereotypes nor the generalizations. Even if there ever had been any truth to them, we are so mobile and so many have relocated from every geographical area to every other geographical area that it doesn't hold water for me.

Even politicians, they're the same everywhere you go................

I don't buy that and never will. If people were the same then why would people choose to live in one area and stay away from others?
Sure there are exceptions but for the most part majorities rule.

[JoeSo]

Originally Posted by victorianpunk

THEY ARE LOUD. I can't go to any restaurant, cafe, or shop without hearing people shouting at each other. They can be right next to you, and still, you hear "HAYYYYY! THAT'S A GREAT BEER!" urhhh...

I agree they can be loud...in some areas. I find it moreso closer to the parts near NY or Philly than in central NJ for example.

Originally Posted by ;5170512

They WANT to be angry. People here seem to live on strife. ...

We don't necessarily WANT to,it's part of the Jersey curse

Originally Posted by ;5170512

The concept that someone who's quiet and introverted an not a *****-hole or a psycho is something that most Jerseyians cannot understand. People do not understand that some people actually like reading a book quietly and may like being alone. Example: I'm just sitting at a bar having my after work drink alone, as I prefer to, and some dumb Jersey female comes up to me and tries to talk to me. I was forced, after she did not understand that when someone gives nothing but one word answers to your first three questions that the said person is probably not interested in talking, to tell her "I would rather be left alone, no offense" at which point she called me a "douchebag" and walked away.

Wow you're actually lucky someone from NJ talked to you! In my experience alot of them are indeed standoffish themselves!

Originally Posted by ;5170512

They do not understand that just because someone is not a Guido or a thug, he/she is not necessarily weird. Every time someone asks me about the beach, and I say "I don't like the beach" the said person walks away and looks as if I have just announced that I have sexual fantasies about John McCain. I say "I like the woods and backpacking" and people react as if I have just painted a Nazi swastika on my car.
If you are not one of them and have interest in things other than what the Jersey people are into, you will find yourself instantly alienated.

I have those same experiences here in Philly...actually by comparison I think NJ people are pretty accepting. But if you're not from an area I can understand feeling like an outsider.

Originally Posted by ;5170512

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMOh-cul6M

If you noticed the plates on the cars they were NY plates...and that dude was most def NY!

[JoeSo]

Originally Posted by njmike

There are a lot of things I miss about Jersey. The one thing the sticks out is how, in a restaurant at lunch, Peopple would sit at a table with empty chairs whether they knew the others sitting there or not. Made for some really good conversations. Don't try it here in Pennsylvania, it's unheard of.

Join the club! They'll only talk to ya in PA if they grew up with you and that's it...otherwise you get looked at funny. Funny how the states are so close yet so different.

[JoeSo]

Originally Posted by njmike

Send him to NorthEastern Pa. All they do is complain, especially about how people from NJ and NY are bringing in all of the crime and we're the cause of the cost of living going up.

Don't mind it,I've lived in PA almost as long as I lived in NJ and no matter where I went in the state the people were sour for the most part. I don't know if it was all their blue collar industries folding up and/or moving out of state but from what I've seen it's been like that for awhile now.
Matter of fact,remember that Billy Joel song 'Allentown' from around 1982? That pretty much explains it.
I think Barack was onto something when he said the people from PA are bitter.
Don't get me wrong,pretty much alot of the northeast is kinda nasty...but I guess that's what they call 'attitude'

[JoeSo]

Originally Posted by njmike

The only complaint I have with people in NJ is that there aren't that many here in NEPA!!! No matter where I've lived, I always tell people I'm from NEW JERSEY!!!!!!!

And do they even know where that is?
Man you're just in a bad place and it ain't gonna change anytime soon. I did the NEPA thing there years ago and lemme tellya it was definitely an experience!

[njmike]

Originally Posted by JoeSo

And do they even know where that is?
Man you're just in a bad place and it ain't gonna change anytime soon. I did the NEPA thing there years ago and lemme tellya it was definitely an experience!

The only thing that people from NEPA know is that they don't want us here. I've ALWAYS been "one of those", something I'm proud of.