Why do New Yorkers hate New Jersey so much? (Greenville: suburb, area)

[Gentrification]

Tell me about it. I don't hate it (it has helped me out before in the past) but I generally dislike it. I've been to many parts and it's so boring. Not to mention that there are some really dangerous areas there. However, Asbury Park is nice. Piscataway is nice too. Even visiting it for necessary purposes is such a drag. It's such a negative feeling, kind of like an inclination.

[openheads]

I've said this a million times; In my experience, it's always the most bland, vanilla, devoid of personality types who are the most ardent, militant, provincial & myopic NY'ers. For the boring & uninteresting, an NYC zip code is the ultimate personality crutch. I call them zip code whores. They cling to their address for dear life. These people reek of obvious & pathetic longing for approval. I'm speaking more to the NY natives than the transplants who are wildly clownish about their new found, faux NYC pride.
These type of people are a study in "Trying way to hard". Being from New Jersey & seeing an ever flowing amount of NY'ers who move to the state you seem to hate so much (how does that work again?), you can tell the NY'ers who are comfortable with who they are Vs the people who play the NY card to hilarious & yet simultaneously nauseating levels.

[11KAP]

^ that can only be true if you can see
it both ways tho; not from one side of
the river to the other.

[OdysseusNY]

Originally Posted by tommyc_37

Listen, I love NYC to the core but nobody who lives in NYC can say ANYTHING about smells. The whole city smells awful.

By comparison, a VERY small part of NJ smells. Maybe 5 square miles, out of 8,000. Most of NJ smells like either the ocean or like any other suburb with trees.

Quoted for truth. (well, OK, it's more than *5* square miles really...)

I grew up in NYC and love it here. But it's *very* rough on your nose.

Once you get beyond the turnpike, most of NJ smells great. The term "Garden State" is not tongue in cheek.

Born and bred New Yorker but I never understand why there's so much Jersey hate.

[njmom66]

Originally Posted by gggjfg

You people are real lucky in this day and age. When I was growing up in Westchester, you could smell the reek of Jersey sulfur when the wind was right.

We used to use the East Side Hwy even though we needed to go over to the West Side.

Guy Lombardo used to race boats on the Hudson and after each race he had to have the boat refinished because the Jersey fumes ate the varnish off the wood boats.

Then I went in the Navy and we had to wear gas masks when we pulled into Bayonne.

Yeah, tell me about the "Garden Sate"!

Have you even BEEN to NJ? Besides the turnpike? Obviously you have no idea what you are talking about. Most of south Jersey is still farmland.

[Fred314X]

Originally Posted by openheads

I've said this a million times; In my experience, it's always the most bland, vanilla, devoid of personality types who are the most ardent, militant, provincial & myopic NY'ers. For the boring & uninteresting, an NYC zip code is the ultimate personality crutch. I call them zip code whores. They cling to their address for dear life. These people reek of obvious & pathetic longing for approval. I'm speaking more to the NY natives than the transplants who are wildly clownish about their new found, faux NYC pride.
These type of people are a study in "Trying way to hard". Being from New Jersey & seeing an ever flowing amount of NY'ers who move to the state you seem to hate so much (how does that work again?), you can tell the NY'ers who are comfortable with who they are Vs the people who play the NY card to hilarious & yet simultaneously nauseating levels.

And we take note of the fact that you identify yourself as being from New Jersey. So what else would any New Yorker expect?

[steve1282]

Originally Posted by tommyc_37

Listen, I love NYC to the core but nobody who lives in NYC can say ANYTHING about smells. The whole city smells awful.

By comparison, a VERY small part of NJ smells. Maybe 5 square miles, out of 8,000. Most of NJ smells like either the ocean or like any other suburb with trees.

Im from Boston. I dont live in NYC. I drive down to Florida once a year and I always get the jersey stench. I have to spray a couple cans of lysol on me just to get rid of it.

[OdysseusNY]

Originally Posted by steve1282

Im from Boston. I dont live in NYC. I drive down to Florida once a year and I always get the jersey stench. I have to spray a couple cans of lysol on me just to get rid of it.

i got caught in a big dig traffic jam once. therefore all of MA must be terrible

[HarleyGuyOC]

Originally Posted by womanpower

Why do New Yorkers hate New Jersey so much?

For the same reason you cover your nose when someone else farts.

[steve1282]

Originally Posted by OdysseusNY

i got caught in a big dig traffic jam once. therefore all of MA must be terrible

You said once. I go every year and it stinks. Ever watch that movie Labryinth? The bog of eternal stench they got that from jersey