To: Exit148
The image people have of NJ is probably from TV (think Jersey Shore and the Sopranos) or from drving up the turnpike on their way between DC and NYC or Boston. Basically they think it's all industrial parks, swamps and run down neighborhoods fool of goombas and guidos in wife beaters talking in thick "joisy" accents. And ghettos in Camden and Newark.
It's not that. Well, yes to some extent it's that. But that's not all it is.
6 posted on
12/21/2019 7:53:28 PM PST by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: pepsi_junkie
Among New Jersey’s counties, Cape May, Warren, Hunterdon and Sussex are beautiful.
7 posted on
12/21/2019 7:55:08 PM PST by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
To: pepsi_junkie
No in fact there’s MANY, many professional Italians who moved to Southern NJ and are wonderful people.
Like my 3 sisters. :)
But Professional, law obeying Italians don’t make for good TV.
9 posted on
12/21/2019 8:34:58 PM PST by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
To: pepsi_junkie
Connecticut and Rhode Island have more Italian Americans per capita than New Jersey does. There are no urban white ethnic neighborhoods anymore, other than Wallington (Polish), as new waves of immigration from Latin America, India, Korea and the Middle East have transformed things considerably.
10 posted on
12/21/2019 10:39:05 PM PST by
Clemenza
To: pepsi_junkie
And I have NEVER heard anyone from NJ say Joisey. Thats Bowery Boy speak. Most whites people of any ethnicity in North Jersey talk like the late Anthony Bourdain.
11 posted on
12/21/2019 10:40:44 PM PST by
Clemenza
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