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The more I see people online trashtalking New Jersey, the more I want to visit
They don't call us the Garden State for nothing. Northwest New Jersey is beautiful, very rural with loads of outdoors activities along the Delaware. Central Jersey has Princeton, which along with the gorgeous campus has a super beautiful downtown. There are farmstands with fresh Jersey tomatoes, corn, and peaches all over the place, and we have a bunch of nice wineries!We also have the Pine Barrens (home of the Jersey Devil!) which are beautiful. And despite that stupid MTV show*, the shore is not just loads of drunken assholes. It has tons of boardwalk stuff to do, and the beaches with tags are usually pretty nice. Plus we have Atlantic City!
*(Side note: the cast of Jersey Shore are fucking bennies from New York, they're not even from NJ.)
When people shit on New Jersey, they're thinking of Camden (Philly's fault), Newark (NYC's fault) ~~and possibly Brick (which is where Redman comes from and which I'm told has improved quite a bit, though I can't really say as I haven't been in a while)~~ (nevermind). There are definitely ugly industrial areas of NJ, but that's not the entirety of the state.
Come visit. Have a pork roll, egg, and cheese on a bagel. Bike down the boardwalk. Spend a day at Great Adventure. Check out Lambertville (and New Hope!). Go tubing down the Delaware. And then when you hear someone bash NJ in the future, you'll be able to defend us ;)
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