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Newark in NJ voted world’s most unfriendly city due to 'extreme traffic' and ‘sad looking’ scenery
MSN The Independent ^ | September 2, 2016

Posted on 09/06/2016 2:52:48 PM PDT by SMGFan

Dubbed a "business necessity" rather than a leisure destination, Newark in New Jersey, US, has landed the top spot as the world's least friendly city.

Newark's "extreme traffic and poor signage" have been cited as reasons for the city's lack of congeniality, while its status as an airport city is said to make it crowded and overpriced.

One disappointed traveller recently said Newark was "one of the saddest looking cities" they had ever seen.

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TOPICS: Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: bluezones; newark; newjersey
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To: trisham

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“This man has a speech impediment.”


21 posted on 09/06/2016 3:31:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

And we don’t have a midwestern drawl here in Indiana.


22 posted on 09/06/2016 3:33:06 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Wasn’t Lou Costello (comedian, Abbot and Costello) from New Jersey?


23 posted on 09/06/2016 3:37:57 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

You Garden staters are a little shy. Hmmm.


24 posted on 09/06/2016 3:40:46 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Vaquero

“Then what the heck is Chicago? How many shootings and deaths this past weekend???”

In Chicago, they shoot you with a happy smile.


25 posted on 09/06/2016 3:40:58 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Carthego delenda est
I stand corrected 🔫😄
26 posted on 09/06/2016 3:43:35 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: SMGFan

I HATE Newark airport. It’s the turd in a porta-potty that’s been dumped in a cesspool that drains in to the Port of New Jersey. BUT. That’s where my European flights usually connect.


27 posted on 09/06/2016 3:47:41 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: SMGFan

Southern Jersey may be a little bit better, no? Or is the cancer going to spread even there?


28 posted on 09/06/2016 3:52:49 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: SMGFan

Shame. My company’s HQ is in Newark, don’t go there unless absolutely necessary.


29 posted on 09/06/2016 3:52:58 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: trisham
My father was born and raised in New Jersey. He was a veteran of WW2.

A WW2 vet would have what it takes to live and thrive in NJ these days, even Newark. Not so easy for the rest of us though.

30 posted on 09/06/2016 4:18:02 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: pepsi_junkie

I’ve taken the train from Newark airport to Penn Station. Looks a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with crumbling warehouses, factories and tenements and heavily polluted marshlands. Manhattan has to dump its crap somewhere and New Jersey seems to be the end of the sewer.


31 posted on 09/06/2016 4:25:45 PM PDT by littleharbour
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To: SMGFan

I don’t have that much exposure to Newark, and it was 20 years ago, but I don’t recall it as being any worse than Philadelphia by the Schuykill bridge, or the bad part of the Bronx. I remember their airport was weird, an elevated ramp for rental car return that was very easy to miss. Didn’t have good connections to here, either. Only bonus was the SAAB turboprop they used was actually a very nice, comfortable plane. Preferred those to that awful Fokker F-28 that USAir was so fond of.


32 posted on 09/06/2016 4:32:34 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: littleharbour
South Jersey, where I am from, is very different from North Jersey. South of Trenton is historically farmland so no abandoned factories or swamps.

But most of the farms are going the way of the dodo now, suburbia is spreading. There are, however, vast stretches of pine barrens which could conceivably be developed but nobody has ever bothered so they remain wilderness.

33 posted on 09/06/2016 4:42:31 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: tumblindice

Sorry too busy working

The taxes don’t pay themselves


34 posted on 09/06/2016 4:51:12 PM PDT by arl295
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To: MichaelCorleone

Southern Jersey is like Alabama

Complete with the mullet, rusted out Camaro resting on blocks in the front lawn and missing teeth


35 posted on 09/06/2016 4:54:25 PM PDT by arl295
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To: pepsi_junkie

Trenton? Seriously? That isn’t South Jersey

That is Central Jersey

Or North Jersey to a true Southern Jerseyian


36 posted on 09/06/2016 4:56:11 PM PDT by arl295
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To: arl295

I thought Trenton was pretty much part of Philadelphia now.


37 posted on 09/06/2016 4:59:15 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: rfreedom4u
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38 posted on 09/06/2016 5:31:55 PM PDT by wizkid
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To: SMGFan
Most of the time I spent at Newark was at Newark airport.

I've been laid over for hours and hours and hours at Newark airport over the years!

At least there are bars at the airport that you can drink at...while you are waiting for your connection.

39 posted on 09/06/2016 5:36:01 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (It is a wise man who rules by the polls but it is a fool who is ruled by them)
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To: tumblindice

I thought the Museum of Science and Trucking was really going to revitalize Newark.


40 posted on 09/06/2016 5:36:14 PM PDT by x
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