OT: 15 Reasons To Absolutely Hate New Jersey

[FanuSanu52]

There isn't a kid in suburban New Jersey who has ever uttered the words "we got next" or "we got winners" or "right field is dead"

Wonder if people from other states notice the same?

I always have kids outside in my neighborhood, playing basketball, making up games, riding Power Wheels and bikes, going hiking, and on and on. It doesn't seem all that much different from when I was a kid and would spend summer days outside riding my bike, exploring the woods, playing punt or wiffle ball, etc.

 

[newwavedave1]

Moved to Washington 22 yrs ago and have not regretted it once. Property taxes are about 1/3 of Jersey's and electricity rates about 1/6. No state income tax and legal pot are also a plus. Vast areas of wilderness make it an outdoorsman's paradise. Hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, water and snow sports make NJ pale in comparison. Almost forgot, low humidity.is great also.

 

[RUbacker]

Neighborhood socialization seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur. Kids used to play outside all the time and simply meet up in a park or on a street corner, and things would evolve from there-whether it was riding bikes, building a fort in the woods, a pickup game of baseball, wiffle ball, football, etc. Parents of kids would get to know each other through their kids' friends. Parents used to go to their kids soccer and baseball games and socialize there. After years of coaching baseball and soccer, I saw fewer parents attending games, and many stood alone staring into their phones.

When we lived in townhouse in North Brunswick, NJ back in the early 1990's, we regularly talked with our neighbors. In 1995, we moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, which to this day, in my mind, is the least friendly place in in the US. We moved back to North Brunswick for a year and then upstate New York in the late 1990's where neighbors seemed to socialize more. Think all of the socialization was lost with the mobile phone and mobile device.

I like NJ but the problem is the nasty low class attitude of so many . You can see it even on this forum . Too many nasty people pontificating and putting others down . It seems so many want to argue and forget politeness and etiquette .