Jersey gets such a bad rap because of a handful of overcrowed cities. Outside, Jersey City, Newark, Camden, Trenton, Elizabeth and most of Hudson county, New Jersey is a beautiful state. I have a good friend from England who now lives in Basking Ridge and he says many areas of Morris and Hunterdon Co. reminds him of Dorset County in England. Unfortunately, popular culture is fixated only on organized crime, traffic jams, pollution and a certain gay Governer.
Yer right on the money. A little further out west from Basking Ridge is the Bedminster/Peapack/Gladstone area, where some of the wealthiest people in the world live. Big country mansions.