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09-28-2008, 12:57 PM
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No clue - I don't attempt to get into these people's heads. I just see stereotypes perpetuated all the time about Italians who live in NJ - like we must look and act like a member of the mafia (ala "The Sopranos"). I mean if it is on TV it must be true right?
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Originally Posted by njmike
How would they stereotype me? I'm a non-Italian raised in Italian neighborhoods in Jersey City and Newark and was engaged to an Italian.
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09-28-2008, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by njsocks
I am a Native New Yorker BUT after living in MA for a while, I think Jersey is definitely more friendly...practically my second home here anyway since I have a ton of extended relatives here to begin with! I always thought the Jerseyans have a lot of spunk and are blunt like me lol........
MA, that is a whole diff. story...those cold New Englanders lol.  ( I will get eggs thrown at me now!) LOL |
That sounds like the animals here in Philly too...were you in Boston by any chance?  At any rate I guess I'm glad I'm not in New England... I even changed my summer place from Maine  |
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09-28-2008, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Tungsten_Udder
Although where is there local television news actually in New Jersey? Isn't all the local news actually either New York City's or Philadelphia's? Maybe there's a station or two I didn't know about, though.
Also, I haven't seen a newspaper from New Jersey yet that seemed even halfway decent to me, although I certainly haven't seen them all.
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News 12 and the Star Ledger are a couple of NJ sources...although since you are only '1.5 miles from NY' you're pretty much there. The people mike was referring to are way out in the mountains of PA and yes they do have local stations there. |
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09-28-2008, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by njmike
At least the news and papers in Jersey don't limit themselves to where the DUI checkpoints are, local high school sports (very limited major league sports), what house on what block has sink holes, etc.
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That's funny also,I often watch Ch.69 news from Allentown because the news here in Philly makes Allentown look like heaven Anyway the wife always comments on how half the news is school sports there,I guess because city people are so used to their major league sports being right there.
Even when I lived in central NJ people didn't seem to be as crazed for sports as they do when I was closer to the big cities. |
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09-28-2008, 04:21 PM
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Somewhere in the 5 boroughs of NYC.
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The people in Scranton are really proud of the TV show The Office since it's supposed to be about a company in Scranton. The thing is, the show is NOT filmed in Scranton. Scrantonions are also proud of the saying "there's nothing like a Scranton party". They wouldn't know how to act in a real party.
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09-28-2008, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by njmike
The people in Scranton are really proud of the TV show The Office since it's supposed to be about a company in Scranton. The thing is, the show is NOT filmed in Scranton. Scrantonions are also proud of the saying "there's nothing like a Scranton party". They wouldn't know how to act in a real party.
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I resemble that remark. |
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09-28-2008, 08:16 PM
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Somewhere in the 5 boroughs of NYC.
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Originally Posted by Gerania
I resemble that remark.
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No offense meant to any one person. |
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09-28-2008, 08:45 PM
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Where's the chocolate?
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Scranton
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Originally Posted by njmike
The people in Scranton are really proud of the TV show The Office since it's supposed to be about a company in Scranton. The thing is, the show is NOT filmed in Scranton. Scrantonions are also proud of the saying "there's nothing like a Scranton party". They wouldn't know how to act in a real party.
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My hubbie was in Scranton on Labor Day weekend for a Beatles (Abbey Road on the River) event. He wore his Office t-shirt. A lot of people liked it but he was surprised to be the only one wearing one.
I know they have an Office convention in Scranton too. |
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09-28-2008, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by JoeSo
I lived in FL also for awhile back in the 90s but didn't notice much of a difference since most people in FL are from here anyway |
We left NJ in 1989 and lived in Boca Raton, FL 15 years. We used to call Boca..."Little NY." |
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09-28-2008, 08:57 PM
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Lol me too...actually I was in Ft.Laud but just the same. I used to joke that I met more New Yorkers in Florida than up north |
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