re: Is there anywhere worse in the US overall than New Jersey?

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Mississippi delta in LA, MS and AR

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Some of the most expensive productive property in the US.
Good call moron.

Sabine River =/= South La baw

Every state has its slums. Newark and Camden are two of the worst in the nation. There’s plenty of really nice places. Check out Montclair, Summit, and Princeton.
Central Jersey has some of the nicest private schools in the world. Not to be confused with a parochial school (religious schools that held to lower standards) that populate all of Louisiana. Petty Prep, Lawrencville Prep, The Hun School, Princeton Day School, etc
I used to get grief because I said the food in NJ was superior to Baton Rouge food. Sure I could find crawfish, gumbo, jambalaya, and what not there but I couldn’t find really good pizza, and sandwiches in many places.
Not to mention in NJ I could go to an Indian restaurant, a Portuguese restaurant, a Russian restaursnt, etc all the time. Louisiana didn’t have anything like that in variety. It was basically one kind of food everywhere.
Louisiana people would always say but NJ doesn’t have seafood, as if the state was located just west Ohio.

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Newark, Jersey City and Trenton are garbage. But the rest of NJ is surprisingly nice. The fact that people living in La would talk down on Jersey is mind blowing.

I really like Morristown. Have spent several weeks there for work the last several years. And easy to get into NYC unless it’s rush hour.

Newark ain’t good. Spent a week there a couple of years ago in January. It was rough.

And it is bullshite to judge a state by one (albeit large city). Hell, I graduated from LSU and Baton Rouge is one of the biggest shite holes in the country.

Had I not visited friends and family in Lafayette and New Orleans before college and experienced nice parts of Louisiana I probably would have left after Spring Orientation.

I grew up in Bridgewater and was 30 miles west of NYC and 30 miles east of the mountains.

While Louisiana food is amazing, there is something about the food up there, especially the Italian food and pizza. Can’t find the same pizza anywhere. Just like you can’t find good cajun food outside of Louisiana.