South Orange is too close to East Orange
True. Some of the folks in E. Orange are good people, but they are trapped by crime and joblessness. Liberal Democrats are somewhat to blame for the lack of jobs in the inner cities.
...and EO is a *hithole
A lot of South Orange itself also went downhill. East Orange was once a vibrant lower income working Italian neighborhood. It is now an urban hell hole. Believe it or not East Orange was once called The Fifth Avenue of New Jersey.