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I Moved Here In July 06 From Nj I Lived There All My 56 Years. You Can Say I Knew Everything About The State And Knew Where To Go And Buy Everything Except One Thing And I Had To Move Out Of Nj To Find It. The True Locals Of This Fine State Have More Going For Them Then Anyone I Know In Nj And The Food Here Is Top Notch I Have Gained 10 Lbs Since I Moved Here . Nj Is Just Like Ny City Everyone Just Complains About Their Life And Just Don't Know What To Do About It So The Come Here And Complain About The People , It Doesn't Matter Where They Go And Move To. They Complain It's Call The Big City Blues Thats All They Know How To Do. It's Not About A Quality Of Life It's Just A Life Style They Are Looking For They Will Never Be Happy They Don't Know How To Blend Into A Area All They Know How To Do Is Take Over. When People Ask Me Where I'm From I Tell Them Catawba Nc And Am Proud Of It.
I Moved Here In July 06 From Nj I Lived There All My 56 Years. You Can Say I Knew Everything About The State And Knew Where To Go And Buy Everything Except One Thing And I Had To Move Out Of Nj To Find It. The True Locals Of This Fine State Have More Going For Them Then Anyone I Know In Nj And The Food Here Is Top Notch I Have Gained 10 Lbs Since I Moved Here . Nj Is Just Like Ny City Everyone Just Complains About Their Life And Just Don't Know What To Do About It So The Come Here And Complain About The People , It Doesn't Matter Where They Go And Move To. They Complain It's Call The Big City Blues Thats All They Know How To Do. It's Not About A Quality Of Life It's Just A Life Style They Are Looking For They Will Never Be Happy They Don't Know How To Blend Into A Area All They Know How To Do Is Take Over. When People Ask Me Where I'm From I Tell Them Catawba Nc And Am Proud Of It.
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As a resident of New Jersey, I am sorry that you feel that way. Just curious how you can lump all of us in the same category, when you yourself have lived here for 56 years.... Gee, and I thought my family would feel welcome down there!
just like a new jerseyen you took it personal!!
you are welcome here just like i have been, but you have to leave the atitude there. sorry if i affended you jersey your not ready yet
What's left of this thread is not inflammatory in my judgment. You're free to continue with your freedom of speech here, just no bickering, please. We can all state our opinion without personally attacking one another.
Swako Absoultely correct, and we decided to do something and I will say this also you have so many of your Nj or NY people that move and for whatever reason hate it and they try to justify there unhappiness, so that since they were unhappy so should everyone else...well We are ready and cant wait im doing an open house on sunday maybe someone will buy the house..LOL....anyway nicely said.....You have to see some of the NJ board and how people feel about NC and have moved back..definatley personal preference...
njmomof2 when you get down here you are going to love it!!!!!!!!! my family feels like they have been here for ever there is no rat race. things go from light speed to caterpillar in about 3 months it feels great!!!! and everything you got up north you have here and sometimes it feels like more.
If you've ever lived in Jersey ...you'll appreciate this!!!
New Jersey is a peninsula.
Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida .
New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.
New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky .
New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq mi.) than Havana , Cuba .
New Jersey has the densest system of highways and railroads in the US .
New Jersey has the highest cost of living.
New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance.
New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation.
New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the "Diner Capital of the World."
New Jersey is home to the original Mystery Pork Parts Club
(no, not Spam): Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.
Home to the less mysterious but the best Italian hot dogs and Italian sausage w/peppers and onions.
North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.
New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island .
The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor John P. Holland .
New Jersey has 50+ resort cities & towns; some of the nation's most famous: Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Long Branch, Cape May.
New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for water quality control than any other seaboard state in the entire country.
New Jersey is a leading technology & industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals.
Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy.
New Jersey is also the world leader in blueberry and cranberry production (and here you thought Massachusetts ?)
Here's to New Jersey - the toast of the country! In 1642, the first brewery in America , opened in Hoboken .
New Jersey rocks! The famous Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar in Mahwah, in 1940.
New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US , located in Elizabeth . Nearly 80 percent of what our nation imports comes through Elizabeth Seaport first.
New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports (in Newark ), Liberty International.
George Washington slept here. Several important Revolutionary War battles were fought on New Jersey soil, led by General George Washington.
The light bulb, phonograph (record player), and motion picture projector, were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park , NJ , laboratory.
We also boast the first town ever lit by incandescent bulbs.
The first phonograph records were made in Camden , NJ (RCA).
The first seaplane was built in Keyport , NJ . and the first airmail (to Chicago) was started from Keyport, NJ.
New Jersey was home to the Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City.
The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets on its playing board after the actual streets in Atlantic City.
Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world, not to mention salt water taffy.
New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East countries. Maybe that explains our gas prices.
The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey , in the Watchung Mountains.
New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world. ( Union , NJ !!!)
New Jersey had the first medical center, in Jersey City
The Pulaski SkyWay, from Jersey City to Newark , was the first skyway highway.
NJ built the first tunnel under a river, the Hudson (Holland Tunnel).
The first baseball game was played in Hoboken , NJ , which is also the birthplace of Frank Sinatra.
The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in 1889 (Rutgers College played Princeton).
The first drive-in movie theater was opened in Camden , NJ , (but they're all gone now!).
New Jersey is home to both of " NEW YORK 'S" pro football teams!
The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson , NJ .
The first FM radio broadcast was made from Alpine, NJ, by Maj. Thomas Armstrong.
All New Jersey natives: Sal Martorano, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifah, Susan Sarandon, Connie Francis, Shaq, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, Joan Robertson, Ken Kross, Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughn, Budd Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Linda McElroy, Eileen Donnelly, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis, Tom Cruise, Joyce Kilmer, Bruce Willis, Caesar Romero, Lauryn Hill, Ice-T, Nick Adams, Nathan Lane, Sandra Dee, Danny DeVito, Richard Conti, Joe Pesci, Joe Piscopo, Joe DePasquale, Robert Blake, John Forsythe, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, Paul Simon, Jerry Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Phyllis Newman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Eva Marie Saint, Elisabeth Shue, Zebulon Pike, James Fennimore Cooper, Admiral Wm.Halsey,Jr., Dave Thomas (Wendy's),
William Carlos Williams, Ray Liotta, Robert Wuhl, Bob Reyers, Paul Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia, Kelly Ripa, and, of course, Francis Albert Sinatra and "Uncle Floyd" Vivino.
The Great Falls in Paterson , on the Passaic River , is the 2nd highest waterfall on the East Coast of the US .
You know you're from Jersey when . . .
You don't think of fruit when people mention "The Oranges."
You know that it's called Great Adventure, not Six Flags.
You know that the state isn't one big oil refinery.
You know what a "jug handle" is.
You know that WaWa is a convenience store.
You know that the state isn't all farmland, but still has plenty.
You know that there are no "beaches" in New Jersey --there's the shore--and you don't go "to the shore," you go "down the shore." And when you are there, you're not "at the shore"; you are "down the shore."
You know how to properly negotiate a circle, and you knew that the last sentence had to do with driving.
You know that this is the only "New" state that doesn't require "New" to identify it (try: Mexico, York, Hampshire - doesn't work, does it?).
You know that a " White Castle " is BOTH a fast food chain AND a fast food sandwich.
You don't think "What exit?" as a location is very funny.
You know that people from the 609 area code are "a little different." Yes they are!
You live within 30 minutes of at least three different malls.
You refer to all highways and interstates by their numbers.
Every year you have at least one kid in your class named Tony.
You've gotten on the wrong highway trying to get out of the mall.
You know that people from North Jersey go to Seaside Heights , and people from Central Jersey go to Belmar, and people from South Jersey go to Wildwood.
You weren't raised in New Jersey --you were raised in either North Jersey, Central Jersey or South Jersey .
You don't consider Newark or Camden to actually be part of the state.
You remember the stores Korvete's, Two Guys, Rickel's, Channel, Bamberger's and Orbach's.
You've had a boardwalk cheese steak and vinegar fries.
You start planning for Memorial Day weekend in February.
And finally . . .
You've NEVER, NEVER NEVER, EVER
pumped your own gas.
Hey guys - I just have to put my two cents in...Don't you think this issue is becoming more widespread , and not just involving WHERE someone lives?
I say this because as I was reading through the thread - what you describe fits so many people I know - but it pertains to cars, clothes, furniture, 'things' even relationships. It's like we have this huge multi-generation of people who are missing something in their lives - don't know what it is, and keep thinking one more this or one more that , or a move, or a new something will make it better - it never does.
I feel so sorry for people like that - and I have to confess - I used to be one of them. Until I realized this life and what I do is what I make it - along with what God puts in front of me. Once that really sank in and I realized nothing really mattered but my service here in this life and how I love and treat others - it all made sense.
I was born and bred in Kentucky. I love it here - except in the winter when my bones ache. Even the damp spring is tough. But - I would love to live in Florida because the ocean and sand are like nothing else on the gulf (that I have seen) and I feel good right down to my soul when I am there. Can't explain the peace, the warmth in my heart.
But - if all I ever get to do is visit, and bever move there - it's okay. It won't kill me. I am still me. Don't get me wrong - I still WANT things - I have just come to realize that those things can't fill a hole in my life. People and love do.
I just wish so much that everyone in this world could realize what is really important - and fill that emptiness with something worthwile.
Sorry for jumping in - but I just couldn't help but see the similarities.
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thats what i mean
jersey your not ready yet 
and I will say this also you have so many of your Nj or NY people that move and for whatever reason hate it and they try to justify there unhappiness, so that since they were unhappy so should everyone else...well We are ready and cant wait im doing an open house on sunday maybe someone will buy the house..LOL....anyway nicely said.....You have to see some of the NJ board and how people feel about NC and have moved back..definatley personal preference...
