Posted on 07/02/2015 7:10:39 PM PDT by SMGFan
Are you Jersey proud?
The rest of the country doesn’t seem to understand why.
A new survey by YouGov ranks New Jersey as the least liked state in the nation.
“New Jersey is the only state in the country which people tend to have a negative opinion of,” YouGov said in its summary.
According to YouGov’s findings, 40 percent of Americans have a negative opinion of New Jersey, the highest of any of the 50 states.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.yougov.com ...
That would fit on a license plate but unfortunately it came after the decision to use the Garden State.
My question has always been Garden of what?
If you find yourself north of the Mason-Dixon then you are in a sucky place.
Before the Californian Mexican Mafia took over almost all vegetable growing in the USA, New Jersey truck farms served the eastern USA with vegetables. Hence garden state.
My wife and I were just talking about NJ (we met there - she was raised there, I spent 8 years, in Clinton, just north of Flemington). I was telling my kids the first time I had a job near Atlantic City and drove from Clinton. Miles and miles of horse farms, then the Pine Barrens. My main thought was “NJ is the most densely populated? Man - the cities must just be jam-packed”.
The discussion had started with my wife seeing something on Facebook about NJ. Yes - they do have the best pizza and bagels. No - not everyone lives off the turnpike, etc.
Clinton was a great place to live - fishing in the reservoirs, canoeing down the river, hiking the Delaware water gap, the history (”Washington slept here”), even had a county park where you could toss your own clay pigeons about a mile from town.
Although I did find some of the stereotypes true - like the mob for instance. It might be better now - 30 years later. And I hated heading south through Newark. When I was there there was no freeway to go south on - you had to drive through the city, and it seemed like there was always construction. I would always get lost in what did not look like the nicest part of town. That was when I would have my thought of “I thought we were supposed to have hovercars by now!”
“My question has always been Garden of what?”
I suppose a Petri dish is a garden in some sense of the word.
Interesting experience, that of people from NJ moving into one’s state and neighborhood. The rumors, balkanization, lawsuits and other fun follow soon after.
School was still in session, so it was not very crowded yet. Even so, I saw mostly families enjoying the beaches and the boardwalk.
Before the Californian Mexican Mafia took over almost all vegetable growing in the USA,
To be fair California took over most vegetable growing because it can be done year round out there. Mexicans had very little to do with it back then. White people were an overwhelming majority of the farm workers back then because of the dust bowl, and the depression. Unions came in and priced the white people right out of jobs. They as always didn’t care about working people, just their dues. Also some people decided, when jobs became more plentiful, that the work was too hard for the money paid.
The US then allowed Mexicans to come across as migrant workers, but at the end of the job they had to return home. When some of them decided to stay illegally, and weren’t punished for it is when the wheels came off the wagon.
I am from New Jersey, as far as I can get from it. That is why I live in New Mexico.
My husband and I grew up in the Deep South. We lived all over the Midwest and some cities in the northeast. We were transferred to NJ and dreaded moving there. It actually was one of my favorite places to live. We lived in Clinton for eight years and loved it. We had great friends and a wonderful neighborhood. It was extremely safe. The whole area was just beautiful. We could be in New York City in an hour and took advantage of that. Loved NYC. Loved going to small towns in PA. Clinton is one of the nicest towns you could live in. Problem is that the taxes make it impossible to stay there. Now in Atlanta near family. Difficult place to live.
New Jersey, the only state in the Union where Smokey the bear encourages you to build a really big campfire.
New Jersey?
You got a problem with that?
The only good thing to come out of New Jersey (other than FReepers and thier families) is I 95.
On my wife’s facebook they were talking about the cops searching the neighborhoods. Everyone was freaking out - they thought it was a really bad guy that had killed somebody or something. He had tried to pass a bad check at the Walmart and ran off!
But I guess it has been built up quite a bit. When I was there it was still just one traffic light.
Speaking of crime, I remember carrying in my wallet for years one of the crime notices in the local paper. “Officer Jenkins was called to the A&P Store over an argument of too many items in the express checkout lane.”
Now we get rock hard peaches and leather skinned tomatoes. Great.
Husband moved a company there in early 60’s. He loved it there until one day fishing a policeman(?) asked what he was doing, he said ok just don’t eat the fish. When company kicked in (construction) the unions (mobs) were something else. Finished the job and came back to CA...fast.
It’s a little difficult to get the produce across the country while it’s fresh. I know because I used to do it.
I’ve picked up lettuce in the field in CA while it was being picked. Mrs. rikkir and I ran team, so our truck didn’t stop except for a couple of hours a day to fuel, shower, and eat. The produce gets delivered to a distributor who then sits on it for who knows how long before it goes to the store.
Some of the best veggies I’ve ever eaten were in CA, and the wife’s family owns a farm in KY.
I lived in New Jersey for 33 years, then immigrated to Texas. I couldn’t stand NJ anymore in the late 1980’s.
“Get outta my way!
I’m in your face!
The world is my doormat. If you don’t like it , it’s you who has the bleeping attitude problem!”
During my last few years in NJ I had done a lot of traveling and found there were better places to live and work. Too many people in NJ were laying up their treasures in “Money! Power! Image!” (wood, hay, and stubble). Especially image, I had escaped at the height of the yuppie craze.
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