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California being hot and filled with attractive people. Out here on the East Coast, everyone thinks California is like 80-90 degrees all year round for some reason. California's weather, as a whole, is more mild than anything. In cities like San Francisco, it never really gets hot, ever.
For New Jersey, two examples immediately come to mind.
The whole Jersey shore image is extremely inaccurate. Seaside Heights (the town where the show is filmed) is actually pretty much the same as it is on TV but there are dozens of towns along the Jersey Shore and the great majority of them are nothing like that. Most of the Jersey Shore is very beautiful and we have some of the cleanest water in the country.
Secondly, nobody pronounces the name of our state "New Joisey". I'm willing to admit that there is some truth to most stereotypes but this is the exception. I've lived here my whole life and have never once heard anybody pronounce Jersey as "Joisey" except in the following sentence: "You know nobody pronounces it 'Joisey', right?"
It's easy to forget Memphis is in Tennessee, sometimes, it seems to have more in common with Mississippi than the rest of the state. Talking about TN as where white people's music comes from lol.
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For New Jersey, two examples immediately come to mind.
The whole Jersey shore image is extremely inaccurate. Seaside Heights (the town where the show is filmed) is actually pretty much the same as it is on TV but there are dozens of towns along the Jersey Shore and the great majority of them are nothing like that. Most of the Jersey Shore is very beautiful and we have some of the cleanest water in the country.
Secondly, nobody pronounces the name of our state "New Joisey". I'm willing to admit that there is some truth to most stereotypes but this is the exception. I've lived here my whole life and have never once heard anybody pronounce Jersey as "Joisey" except in the following sentence: "You know nobody pronounces it 'Joisey', right?"
It's probably a generational thing. It might've been true over 50 years ago, but only really old people who say 'Joisey' these days.
Some people seem to think that the Chicago of 2012 is the same Chicago as 1912. Yea Upton Sincliar's "The Jungle" was a great book, but that was a long time ago.
Here in the Northeast, people get the impression that New Jersey is almost completely filled with industrial buildings, powerplants and factories. That's all you see on the NJ Turnpike, especially in the northeastern section of the state.
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