“...NJ has no city comparable to Chicago...”
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I have been to Camden, NJ many times on business trips.
It is a place where only Snake Plissken could survive.
The creepiest thing about Camden (I haven’t been there in about 10 years - it is a couple of hours south of me) was not the people - it was the stretches of abandoned homes and other buildings. When they were deciding where to locate the battleship New Jersey museum, sensible people suggested the piers of Jersey City or Bayonne - but didn’t want to compete with the aircraft carrier Intrepid museum in NYC - so they put it in Camden to “revive the city” (as the nearby aquarium was supposed to do years before). Now it is part of Philly’s tourist literature, bleeding money, and incredibly (/s), it didn’t revive anything. Post-apocalyptic...