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Boston, DC, Philadelphia, and Baltimore are all reasonable drives away and NYC is right next door. not to nitpick, but Philadelphia is just as close as NYC (ma
by dec0dedab0de 9y ago
Boston, DC, Philadelphia, and Baltimore are all reasonable drives away and NYC is right next door.
not to nitpick, but Philadelphia is just as close as NYC (maybe even closer) I routinely joke that Philadelphia and NYC are part of New Jersey, usually to upset citizens of said cities. Then I point out that the culture in those cities is much more like NJ than the rest of their own states.
- SmellTheGlove 9y agoI grew up in NJ - I'd do the same thing to rile people up, but deep down I knew: South Jersey is part of Philly, and anything north of Mercer Co is basically NY. Except for the shore counties - they hate all of us equally. So I consider them to be New Yorkers out of spite.
- dec0dedab0de 9y agoMost of the "hate" is just as superficial as programmers teasing people that use other languages, or sysadmins trash talking other operating systems. I can see the Walt Whitman bridge from the end of my road, and I have made friends with plenty of people from North, and Central Jersey. ...Another fun one is to pretend that Central Jersey doesn't exist, or to claim to be a proud Shoobie (or Benny) to the shore people :-)
- SmellTheGlove 9y agoTotally. Jersey Pride is actually a unifying force. Kind of like how we all pretend to not like Seaside and Wildwood.