In Philadelphia, can you feel a difference between someone from a NJ suburb vs one from a PA suburb? (Montgomery: health insurance, how much)

[Tiger Beer]

In Philadelphia, can you feel a difference between someone from a NJ suburb vs one from a PA suburb?

Granted, the heart of this is that suburbs are different from the urban areas. But does the NJ suburb person feel significantly different from the PA suburb one? Or do they all pretty much seem the same in some way or another?

[frankgn87]

exactly the same.. I grew up in a Pa burb and ow in a NJ burb. Exactly the same

[kidphilly]

Originally Posted by frankgn87

exactly the same.. I grew up in a Pa burb and ow in a NJ burb. Exactly the same

Mostly agree on the whole very little difference

[julian17033]

I grew up on the metro east side of St. Louis Mo in a city called Alton.
There's simply not enough geographical separation between the eastern St. Louis suburbs of ILL and St. Louis MO to have any difference whatsoever.

The same can be said of Philly and the Jersey burbs.
There's simply not enough distance between points to be any different other than state government.
People are the same, attitudes are the same, social norms are the same, food preference is the same.
There's no difference because other than governing bodies it's the same exact city.

[BTA88]

Having lived in both, I can honestly say the biggest difference is impossible to navigate jug handles versus people veering left across the highway at light speed trying not to get T-boned. Particularly Camden and Glouster Counties when compared to MontCo and DelCo.

[soug]

The biggest difference to me is that there's actually elevation changes in some parts of the PA burbs.

[ElijahAstin]

Sprawl begins much closer to the City on the NJ side of the River.

[LHM]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

In Philadelphia, can you feel a difference between someone from a NJ suburb vs one from a PA suburb?

Of course not. Are you drunk or something?

[FromGA]

When I was comparing PA vs NJ Philly suburbs, I came to the conclusion that:
NJ individual health insurance seem expensive (not a big factor if an employer will pay for insurance)
NJ property taxes seem high

TigerBeer, I think this may be more of a factor for you than any other subtle difference. If one is choosing Philadelphia metro due to reasonable costs, the above two are significant factors.

I know you are interested in Asian population, have you checked out parts of Montgomery county?
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I know this is not what TigerBeer asked about. Just wanted to let him know my thoughts.

[river123]

There's a closer affiliation between Philly and the PA 'burbs than between Philly and the NJ 'burbs. It may not be a cartoonishly obvious visual or verbal difference, but there is more independence from Philadelphia in southern NJ if only because they are in different states and there's a limit to how much influence either has over the other. NJ has more of a separate identity, as well as a larger native population in terms of people who are from southern NJ for generations (ie, not from Philly or from out-of-state). I don't think that you see that as often in the PA suburbs.