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Union County as Central Jersey is complete nonsense. That’s not even debatable.
Sure it is debatable, and considering more than half of the people who live there (according to the unscientific nj.com map linked on page 1 of this thread) think their Union County towns are in Central Jersey, who are we to declare otherwise?
On the contrary, it's the standard contemporary perspective.
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rooting back to a time when there was just one area code for Central/North Jersey (201), before Turnpike had multiple lanes starting at Exit 6, and 295 had expanded, and back when there was less Asian immigrant influence in Central NJ.
None of the factors you cited are relevant in this determination.
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The drive from Cherry Hill to South Brunswick isn't all that different in distance than Cherry Hill to Mays Landing (an intra South Jersey drive). Intra South Jersey- Cherry Hill and Mays Landing are Philly influenced. But being Philly influenced only means so much. Ask someone in Mt. Laurel or Haddonfield to take a trip down to Egg Harbor City or Vineland. The Haddonfield or Mt Laurel resident wouldn't find the town similar, and would find more in similarity with Princeton or South Brunswick.
The Haddonfield or Mount Laurel resident will consider themselves in South Jersey when they're in Vineland. Not so on a trip to South Brunswick. South Jersey is really comprised of about four distinct sub-cultures: suburban Philadelphia, the Pine Barrens, the rural (agricultural) parts of deep South Jersey, and the South Jersey shore. I live in a part of South Jersey that's sort of a transition between deep/rural South Jersey and suburban Philadelphia.
Sure it is debatable, and considering more than half of the people who live there (according to the unscientific nj.com map linked on page 1 of this thread) think their Union County towns are in Central Jersey, who are we to declare otherwise?
If that is what you believe, Union County residents, then you are misinformed.
Middlesex County is the northernmost Central NJ County.
Middlesex County is the northernmost Central NJ County.
If that was the case, then Somerset and Hunterdon Counties would not be a part of Central NJ, and I don't know anyone who believes that those counties are located in Northern NJ.
If that was the case, then Somerset and Hunterdon Counties would not be a part of Central NJ, and I don't know anyone who believes that those counties are located in Northern NJ.
I think what is gumming up our riveting discourse on the lay of the land in NJ is that East Coast NJ is somewhat different than the Western, closer to PA (read, the "08" zip code) parts of NJ. NJ weird shape. Kind of like Ireland
You wouldn't call "Elizabeth" Central NJ, would you?? all the way up there? This reminds me of when I debated folks, saying I don't consider Virginia "The South" - it's in the middle of the Eastern Seaboard.
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