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How do so many Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers (from NY state) have so much effing time to come to NJ to visit. A lot you look young behind the wheel and if you are in college or have a job, how the hell do you have so much time to come all the way to suburban North Jersey? I have no time to be travelling to NYC or even the bottom part of Upstate NY during school year. I have a terrible schedule this semester and I have a part time job. So many NY plates...
How do so many Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers (from NY state) have so much effing time to come to NJ to visit. A lot you look young behind the wheel and if you are in college or have a job, how the hell do you have so much time to come all the way to suburban North Jersey? I have no time to be travelling to NYC or even the bottom part of Upstate NY during school year. I have a terrible schedule this semester and I have a part time job. So many NY plates...
You should be happy about this. People from out of state, spending their money in your's.
How do so many Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers (from NY state) have so much effing time to come to NJ to visit. A lot you look young behind the wheel and if you are in college or have a job, how the hell do you have so much time to come all the way to suburban North Jersey? I have no time to be travelling to NYC or even the bottom part of Upstate NY during school year. I have a terrible schedule this semester and I have a part time job. So many NY plates...
Hmmm..was just commenting to a friend the other day..what's with all the NJ plates in upstate NY?....One other somewhat odd thing we notice up our way..it could be the time of year when roadside saltdust or slush is just about on every vehicle on the road...then along comes a (usually new, pricey) vehicle with NJ plates...looking like it was just taken out out of a giant zip loc bag...not even dust on it?
How do so many Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers (from NY state) have so much effing time to come to NJ to visit. A lot you look young behind the wheel and if you are in college or have a job, how the hell do you have so much time to come all the way to suburban North Jersey? I have no time to be travelling to NYC or even the bottom part of Upstate NY during school year. I have a terrible schedule this semester and I have a part time job. So many NY plates...
The better question is what are all the NJ plates doing on Long Island?
For Long Island and NYC, passing through some part of NJ is virtually required to get anywhere outside our area. Many of us would love to avoid it, but there is little choice.
NYers living further north anywhere along the Hudson also end up with NJ as a main option to reach points south.
Bottom line... you are in the way.
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Hmmm..was just commenting to a friend the other day..what's with all the NJ plates in upstate NY?....One other somewhat odd thing we notice up our way..it could be the time of year when roadside saltdust or slush is just about on every vehicle on the road...then along comes a (usually new, pricey) vehicle with NJ plates...looking like it was just taken out out of a giant zip loc bag...not even dust on it?
Skiing, Catskills, Adirondacks... all very accessible from Northern NJ and PA. They have to pass through NY to get to New England or Canada.
It depends on where you are in NJ. Southern Rockland and Bergen are pretty much the same community. People crossing over that border all day long. Very common to have your doctor in one state, your gym in the other, etc. Countless residential roads cross the border with no signage. Some houses are even landlocked into the other state - meaning the only way out for them by car is to drive into the other state.
No tax on clothes helps attract people to NJ. Lower gas prices used to - not that much of a difference now though.
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North Jersey is between NYC and PA. People commute through it constantly just out of necessity. In fact, if I wanted to drive to NYC from where I live, the shortest route takes me into PA, through NJ, and into NY state again at the end.
That's to say nothing of people actually going TO New Jersey for leisure.
You have something like 12,000,000 + New Yorkers at your border, with a few million Pennsylvanians on the other side the whole length. NJ is not very large, especially east to west. Of course you are gonna see them drive through NJ.
Likewise, I see NJ plates here in central/west upstate NY constantly this time of year, and we're much further away from NJ than NYC is. So obviously people from Jersey are traveling too.
It depends on where you are in NJ. Southern Rockland and Bergen are pretty much the same community. People crossing over that border all day long. Very common to have your doctor in one state, your gym in the other, etc. Countless residential roads cross the border with no signage. Some houses are even landlocked into the other state - meaning the only way out for them by car is to drive into the other state.
No tax on clothes helps attract people to NJ. Lower gas prices used to - not that much of a difference now though.
Yeah I wonder what happens if someone owns a house on top of the border. Google Earth's borders of states are not accurate especially on the Four Corners Monument in the Southwestern US.
Best part of shopping in NJ is no tax! Absolutely right! That's what my Californian family likes about shopping here.
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