This report, New Jersey’s Most Hated State, indicates that this five-month-old Top 15 Most Hated States in America—Housely list reveals how NJ, once again, comes up tops in a bottom-most list of places folks want to live.
Yeah, yeah, I say. I see these lists all too often and they kind of mean doodly squat. Like all the pollster predictions of who will win the election, counting like this never really matters.
So, listing NJ again as a bad place to be/live, I say, who cares?
As to the reasons given in the above article why NJ is bad, I think these are good reasons.
Here’s what the paragraph about our great state says in the piece:
People who live in New Jersey dislike their state just as much as those who don’t. Some think New Jersey residents are loud, outspoken, and bold. Plus, everything there seems to cost a lot, and the traffic is always a headache. On top of that—there’s more pollution, and the weather isn’t usually all that great.
Loud
Yes, we are. It’s a good thing, though, I feel. And yes, it goes along with being outspoken and bold, which is another good characteristic of us living in the Garden State. NJersians can be fools, but we don’t suffer them. We have opinions, and we give them (personally, I feel you should only when asked or if you have a blog like this that you annoy your friends with).
Yes, stuff costs a lot, true. But show me a place where stuff doesn’t cost a lot in this day and age.
I love the weather, well to be more accurate the change of seasons and adore folks complaining in the dead of summer about the heat and humidity as much as the cold in the winter (I am one of those who complains…part of the loud and outspoken thing I guess).
Pollution? Have you been to LA?
Look, we are not perfect, but the state is. I love NJ, as I have stated here plenty and I would not live anywhere else on Earth and I have been to a few places that are lovely. So, hate us all you want, be you living here or not. As any dyed-in-the-state NJersian would say…who cares what you think?
Was that loud outspoken and bold, enough for you?
