As someone who was born and raised in New York let me say - New Jersey sucks. Comedian Robert Klein called northern NJ “50 miles of universal fart”.
Northwest and southern NJ are fairly picturesque in scenery. Toss out the area bordering NYC, Camden and Trenton and the state is not so bad. Being the high tax hellhole governed by ash holes is the clinker. That goes for Christy Creme too.