To be fair, NJ is always the #1 state that folks want to move FROM and it’s not just because of Christie. There are beautiful parts of the Garden State and some lovely people, but it’s mostly a horrible, dirty dingy place (the closer one gets to NY), they’re taxed to death, and, let’s face it, they New Jerseyites. They enjoy being miserable.
It’s pretty dirty in the parts closest to Philadelphia as well.
I had to be there a few weeks. Being from the Deep South, I just could help but wonder about the garden state. After the first three weeks in December I figured it out. New Jersey grows mud and muck and believe me, I was in it on a daily basis. I just didn’t have the heart to tell them, that’s not gardening.