This thread is a warning from someone who has lived in New Jersey his entire life, intended for those pondering if they should move here. Please, this site is for people looking for information on a state or city, and I am providing it.
Many will try to defend New Jersey and let me just say this: They only like Jersey because it's where they're families are friends are. There is nothing in Jersey that you cannot find better in so many other places, but New Jersey has so many more problems then most places do, it sure isn't worth it. So, the reasons why NOT to move to Jersey:
1: THE PEOPLE. If you lived in one of those more rural states you might have less intelligent, "simple minded" types, which might stink. But, at least you'll have natural beauty, which New Jersey is certaintly lacking (I'll get to that later) but here, you have the worst of both world: a urban environment AND people who might as well be hillbillies.
There is a kind of person in New Jersey that's hard to explain to some people from other parts of the country and certaintly people from other nations can't really comprehend it (I new a fellow from Poland who called gave up trying to explain it to his people back home) They are, you guessed it,
THE GUIDOS.
Here is a good definition of them for you:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guido
They are EVERYWHERE and everywhere they are, they are
IN YOUR FACE. Stratch your chin in New Jersey and you're likely to get a fellow to fun within two inches of your face and start screaming, in that awful Jersey accent,
"HEY! WATCHA' SCRATCHIN YOUR CHIN 'ROUND ME FOR?! I KNOW WAT DAT MEANS! YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I'M ANDY FIGGEROLI! WAT, YOU GOTTA PROBLEM 'WIT ANDY FIGGEROLI!? YO ANGIE, WATCH DA' MUSTANG! I'M GONNA BEAT THIS LITTLE PIECE OF *Beep* UP!"
Keep in mind, this is not just an Italian thing, as allot of Guidos aren't even Italian. It's just a Jersey thing. They are loud, rude, and IN YOUR FACE and ready to start a fight at the drop of a hat. This is the typical scene in New Jersey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5weU2...om=PL&index=27
And those that aren't fist pumping 18-35 year olds are either thugs who want to rob you, soccer moms who want to call the police on you ("but officer, ohh, let me tell you! He's driving through this neighborhood at six o'clock in the evening! Ohh,
those people shouldn't be out this late") or some yuppie who wants to look at you like he/she might look at an insect.
Also, people in this state are just plain are not very intelligent. The average Jersyian couldn't read his or her way through a book of matches, let alone a book that didn't have anything to do with school...ohh, and even at the universities, studying takes a pack seat to fist-pumping (a kind of guido war-dance) at the club (or, as they call it, "da' club!") and doing massive amounts of drugs and alcohol, and they only get through school by cheating.
Not to mention this is a very, VERT tribal state. We are very diversed, and yet still very segregated. Mixed race anything is almost unheard of here. The difference between Jersey and some parts of the South (some, but not all of the south) is that in Jersey, racism is covered up better. Just as many, if not more, racist pricks as in "Klan country", the only difference is that here in Jersey they don't have the guts to come out and say it. The guy who makes it clear that he does not like black people I can deal with...the Guido who stars a fight with me while insisting, again, in that awful Jersey accent
"HEY, I AIN'T GOT NOTTIN' 'GENST BLACK PEOPLE! REALLY, IT'S JUST 'DAT 'DAT DOUCHE BAG OVER 'DARE LOOKED 'A ME FUNNY!"
The people here just plain stink
2: The lack of natural beauty. So many people I say this to say "well, what about Hunterdon county!" and I say...what about Hunterdon county? People here in Jersey think that an exurb counts as natural beauty. Every so called "state park" is located within no more then ten miles of yet another racial segregated suburb filled with well to do snobs trying to stay away from non-whites and their guido, club hopping, alcoholic children.
Also, half of New Jersey's "open space" is actually swamp and marsh, and what little woods we do have is polluted and ugly as hell. As for mountains...are you really going to call those medium size hills which are the Ramapos and the Watchungs "mountains"? Give me a break! They're nothing but a "scenic" spot for yuppies to build their love nests.
Not to mention that majority of New Jersey is actually....
....
3: sprawl, sprawl, and more and more sprawl. Jersey doesn't really have too many towns and villages, just suburbs away from everything and ugly McMansions. Real, honest to goodness towns, which are getting rarer and rarer in America as it is, are few and far between in Jersey. And if you don't like the 'burbs, you can always go to...
4: The ghettos. Every single city in Jersey with one exception, that I'll get to, is a ghetto. Newark: Ghetto. Elizabeth: Ghetto. New Brunswick: Ghetto. Perth Amboy:Ghetto. Jersey City:Ghetto(except for that yuppie part by the water that cost a million dollars for a studio) Trenton:Ghetto Camden: SUPER GHETTO.
I mean, most cities have a bad area, but in Jersey, the city IS the bad area. Just high crime everywhere, and you can't even legally carry a gun like you can in other places to defend yourself. None of the cities are nice...except Princeton, WITH A CETCH! The Cetch, is that Princeton is overpriced as overpriced can be, and "people of color" are not welcome. It's like a bunch of snobby, racist-yet-liberal-voting chumps got together and made Princeton their own little enclave, and priced anyone else out.
Funny, they have no problem voting for a black president...they just don't want a black family living next door to them
5: The congestion. People in Jersey live in suburbs...but they have the same traffic as people living in most cities. Yahh, gas is cheaper in Jersey, but the fact that you spend so much time idling that it makes up for it. You will still have to drive four hours to get somewhere in Jersey just like you might in Nebraska...only difference is, instead of lush scenary and countryside, all you'll see is the brake light of the car infront of you and ghetto or plastic suburbs, and the place that takes you four hours to get there is only ten miles away.
6: The crime. Pretty self explanatory. We have a ton of crime in this state and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. Worst yet, you can't even carry a gun in Jersey like you can in other states. I mean, Alaska has some crime problems too, but at least there a citizen can carry a gun to defend himself or herself. Here? You get caught with a spitball and they look you up for ten to life.
7: Nanny state. Laws against everything. Why not just cut the red tape and just come out and say it: fun is officially outlawed in the state of New Jsersey. No guns, no tinted windows, no fireworks, bars close early, and even a measure to ban bikini waxes! I would not be suprised if the FBI used this thread to tract me down and I'll get a fine in Jersey for "complaining without a permit".
8: The price of living. With the exception of gasoline (which, as I explained above, really isn't an exception) everything in Jersey cost more. Granted, we have more millionares per capita then any other state, so the high prices are sustained. Car insurance, rent, utlities, groceries, you name it.
With crime and congestion and the price of living, Jersey is all the big city problems, with none of the big city perks.
So, please, if you are thinking about moving here, reconsider. Try Upstate New York if you want somewhere to commute to the city from, or PA if you need to commute to Philly. But please, as someone who has lived here is whole life (but I do not now, nor have every considered myself to be, a native) don't come to Jersey.
And yes, I am moving. I have medical issues that have delayed a move YET AGAIN, but soon, I will say so long to Jersey and be in Washington or Oregon, never to see a Guido again
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Why not to move to New Jersey
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