Likes/Dislikes About NJ People (Newark, Dover: prices, rich, cottage)

[john_starks]

Originally Posted by openheads

The term B&T drives me crazy!!!!!!!!
Have you seen the amount of NY plates in North Jersey on a daily basis?
We need a name for reverse B&T'ers.
They invade North Jersey as much as we invade NYC.

you know who call B&T these days...Germans

no real NY'ers live in Manhattan

if so, post here....

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[JoeSo]

Originally Posted by njmike

I still think we have a lot to teach the locals in Pennsylvania, "hanna or no?".

"Hey naw"

[njmike]

Originally Posted by JoeSo

"Hey naw"

Thanks for the morning laugh.

[MissLizzy]

I noticed in the supermarkets that the women that are older than me (I am 25) assume I am a young mom of the 11 and 12 year old boys I nanny for, and are very helpful. They start conversations in isles and one even offered to let me go ahead of her in line because one of the boys was with me. I was surprised, being that initially I have been cut off by more than one elderly lady in grocery store lines prior to this newfound NJ experience.

[JoeSo]

Just hang in there,it'll happen for ya

[njmike]

Originally Posted by MissLizzy

I noticed in the supermarkets that the women that are older than me (I am 25) assume I am a young mom of the 11 and 12 year old boys I nanny for, and are very helpful. They start conversations in isles and one even offered to let me go ahead of her in line because one of the boys was with me. I was surprised, being that initially I have been cut off by more than one elderly lady in grocery store lines prior to this newfound NJ experience.

Take full advantage of it!!!!!!

[njmike]

Originally Posted by JoeSo

Just hang in there,it'll happen for ya

Another Scrantonism: "So don't I".

[JoeSo]

Originally Posted by njmike

Another Scrantonism: "So don't I".

lol reminds me of when I was down south(the real south,not south Jersey)
The thing that used to annoy me was when I'd ask someone if they have something and they'd say "we sure...don't"

[newjitty]

Dislikes: Chain restaurants, generic malls, overblown pretense (at least a$$holes in NY usually have an excuse to be so and try to be nice about it; people in NJ seem generally bitter b/c they couldn't afford to move to NYC/LA/FL, etc.), legal corruption is laughable, mediocre pizza/bagels/pasta (i expected more from all the chatter), general social and cultural backwardness despite the state's pride in liberalism and "progressiveness," over-leveraging is rampant through all social classes - porsches in driveways yet no equity, lacks originality.

Likes: Slowed down pace (I'm based out of Manhattan/London prior), landscape in upper Bergen County, traffic's not as bad as people make it..that's about it.

[cyntmac]

Originally Posted by newjitty

Dislikes: Chain restaurants, generic malls, overblown pretense (at least a$$holes in NY usually have an excuse to be so and try to be nice about it; people in NJ seem generally bitter b/c they couldn't afford to move to NYC/LA/FL, etc.), legal corruption is laughable, mediocre pizza/bagels/pasta (i expected more from all the chatter), general social and cultural backwardness despite the state's pride in liberalism and "progressiveness," over-leveraging is rampant through all social classes - porsches in driveways yet no equity, lacks originality.

Likes: Slowed down pace (I'm based out of Manhattan/London prior), landscape in upper Bergen County, traffic's not as bad as people make it..that's about it.

Some of your post is laughable. Sorry.
I came from a part of the state where people don't compare themselves to NYC and don't have a complex or low self esteem because of it. Bergen county may be a different story but it is not everyone's dream to live in NYC even there. People often leave the area and go really far away. People wish they could live in Florida? Many of them do go but it's not like Florida is the promised land. You can live on very little there compared to Bergen. The overblown pretense is ugly no matter where. I also lived in NYC for years and there is no excuse for aholes.

There is just as much corruption in NY and the equity issue is not an NJ thing. That happens in many places.
You also have this strange idea that people are taking pride in liberalness. Give me a break. Most can see beyond that even if they are left leaning. That comment was truly idiotic. One of the most absurd I have seen in months.

As far as sprawl and chains- I hate that also. I don't really agree on the social backwardness except in certain communities but compared to most of the rest of the U.S- actually better. I also don't consider Bergen County to be slow paced. You have no perspective.