“If I had the money and the manpower, I’d kidnap each and every one of them and move them down South.”
I under stand the sentiment; that’s a shame. NJ has great beaches in the southeast, mountains in the north, and great farmland between; there aren’t many places where you can drive an hour to get to any of the three. It certainly doesn’t resemble the fairly prosperous NJ I grew up in.
I drive thru Jersey on my to and from NY. The northwest part of the state, the farmland, is absolutely beautiful. You’d never know that you were in that state. But sadly, like so many other states, the dense populations of the urban areas control what the rest of the state does.
As for the shore, its convenient. It has the ocean. But it also has Snookie. You can have that.