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So there are plenty of pretty women in Newark which is nice. But how many of them have street smarts? How many grew up in Newark or the area?
I'm sorry, but a young woman from south Jersey or BFE doesn't have the savvy. Everything about her is going to scream "not from here".
I raised my children in Rhode Island. Came back one weekend with just my younger son who was then around 13. We took the train down (for the experience) and then the PATH into Harrison where my sister met us. I wanted to give him some time seeing Manhattan, so we left Penn Station and went to the streets. My son who appeared street smart in Providence couldn't follow me through Penn Station because he kept stopping to let people cross in front of him rather than walking straight where he needed to go.
Then when we headed into the Path Station, he stopped completely - aghast at who/what was selling whatever right in the tunnel entrance. LOL The poor kid was overwhelmed. My son is now 41 and we still laugh about that day. I made it a point to drag him often to the city after that.
Harsh for the wrong reason. It's not that she's young and pretty, or that there are other young and perhaps even prettier women in Newark; it's that she's not street smart.
Of couse,it doesn't say which part of south Jersey she is from.
Heck,she could be from Camden or Trenton. I am from Newark and moved to south jersey,Burlington to be exact. Their isn't really much of a difference,except people in south jersey are less friendly and more on the go Imo. I could see if she was from Alabama,but we are talking intrastate here.
There are plenty of people who live in Newark who aren't street smart. I wasn't.
But common SENSE kicked in. I knew that I couldn't hang out past a certain time and not go down dark streets.
I'm also just telling her to check out the classifieds,because she won't be making that much as a new Lpn.
What makes her think that there will be a big jump in hourly wage because one moves within the same state.
I never heard of an Lpn making $30/hr,except agency working for the nursing homes and hospitals.
I don't even make that much as an Rn. I was offered $27.00/hr,and I'm not even a new grad.
Less friendly in South Jersey? There more friendly in South Jersey and Philly......
South Jersey I'm not sure. But Philly? I don't know man, going there for business always meant having to say I was from NJ (no prob w/ that), but the cringing faces smart-assedness was by far and wide worse than anything I've had to deal w/ in NY (hell, I think I've got worse from Philly than anywhere I've ever been to be honest). I would like to think all of Philly isn't like that, but every time I was there and 'NJ' came up there always seemed to be an issue.
And I couldn't even talk sports with them; they're waaaaay too enveloped in what I would call 'misguided passion'.
Location: Hammonton, NJ half way between Philly and Atlantic City
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Listen you. Stop watching Television and movies that glorify New York City. Ahh, to be young and free in NYC.....oh it's such a romaticized facade. New York and North Jersey suck. It's overcrowded and over priced. New York is a fake city full of phony, snobby socialites. Don't think you are going to be wisked away in some fairy tale dream of riches and beautiful people. You don't belong there, and you aren't rich/famous so you'll be hanging out in Brooklyn with the rocks. Your Sex in the City dreams will never come to fruition.
The grass isn't greener on the other side. Philly is the best. Philly has the best heroin in the United States and the best open air drug markets. What are you worried about concerning crime??? Philly is more dangerous than New York and Camden is more deadly than Newark. So you should do just fine up there.
And please stop the "I'm just some poor rube from South Jersey" gimmick. South Jersey isn't Idaho for God's sakes. Yeah there is more people in the NYC metro area, but South Jersey is pretty friggin urban. Yeah the extreme Southern part of Jersey is rural as hell but so is the NW part. South Jersey has Camden, Atlantic City, Vineland, Millville, Pleasantville, Bridgeton..........plenty of places where all that "urban" stuff goes down......So North Jersey isn't some big change. HEY ZUES it's a thirty minute to two hour drive away.
Once you turn your back on Philly/South Jersey you will not be allowed back unless you pay a fine.........
look at journal sq or paterson, its just about as cheap and safer and lot of other pretty girls there so wont be as much as a stand out.
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