New Jersey is richest state, but has some of the poorest cities

Phillyburbs via Drudge ^ | 08.30.06 | GEOFF MULVIHILL

[Coleus]

You've been to the wrong places, it's a state with many beautiful and picturesque areas, we have the Appalachian and Kittatinny Mountain range, the jersey shore, the pinelands and coastal plain; 40% of NJ is rural.

[Coleus]

you've driven on the turnpike which is very industrial, NJ is 40% rural and has a great coast, the jersey shore.

[Coleus]

It still is a slum, it proves gentrification doesn't work. You go 2 blocks from the casinos and you take your life into your own hands. Even the boardwalk is dangerous later in the evening. Other parts of the jersey shore are beautiful, people come from all over the country and Canada to vacation there.

[Moonman62]

I've driven through New Jersey. Not very impressed. I remember, it was all industrial areas. Newark is the worst.

I once drove from Newark to Scranton. It was very pretty once I got out of Newark.

[Coleus]

They assigned the NJ State Police to patrol Camden, built an aquarium and also put the Battleship NJ there too, and the city is still a dump. It just proves that gentrification does not work and that most people won't travel long distances to go there. Both attractions should have been put in Northern NJ where they would have been close to a very-large population.

[JimFreedom]

You are correct, while I was making good money 100K + we lived in Hunterdon County in the country. Upon retirement we had to leave because on a fixed income we couldn't or wouldn't pay the outrageous property taxes any more along with all the hidden 'fees'. Now live on sunny Anguilla BWI, property tax under $500, Caribbean ocean view!

[BombHollywood]

Monmouth, Morris, Hunterdon, Warren, Sussex, Ocean, Cape May, Cumberland, Most of Bergen and some remaining parts of Middlesex are all beautiful places to live. Most people driving along the NJTP only see Essex and Hudson counties which have mostly gone to the dogs. The few nice places in Essex county are too expensive to live in anymore unless you're an attourney or a doctor or a judge and can afford to pay the insane taxes. Thank you Gov. Corzine. The phony tax-hike melodrama played out in Trenton last June fooled most of the democrat-voting New Jersey residents who shrugged their collective shoulders when our previous homosexual Governer had an illegal alien on the state payroll and was involved in a bribe scandal. But we got our Democrat in Trenton so that's all that matters. Now we're all getting raped in our wallets---but that's ok, it's a Democrat doing it and that's just fine. We'll just keep on voting to screw ourselves. We're New Jerseyans, we're Democrats and we love the punishment!

[Ptarmigan]

The turnpike does not take me there.

[Texas Eagle]

Bush's fault?