Hahah Jersey, baby !
As a whole I like New Jersey. I live in the central/west area so it ain't no thugs and shit heads runnin' around in my town. Farmlands/suburbia for the win. Now conveniently, Newark is only 25 minutes down I-78, so 'fun' is always a knockin'.
I grew up here, left here, came back, left, came back.. Now I am trying to get AWAY from fucking methadone and heroin and leave again. After my dad died I moved back and then really hit the fucking bottom, like, last stop, get off or you're dead kinda rock bottom. Of course there's no elevator back to the top. Spiral stair cases only.
I am not a city person, so I love the quiet, beautiful, farmlands and suburbia that is prevalent in my neck of the woods. No, not fucking guidos from Livingston.
Hunterdon Country, Western Somerset, Warren County, Sussex. = Beautiful. As close to Oregon/Northern California as I can get while I am here. Except no huge billion dollar grow ops and medical marijuana. (Yet)
The cool thing about Jersey is there is no joke like a huge microcosm of every ethnic group, income bracket, drug circle, mountain folk, upper class, middle class, no fuckin' class..
We've got it all. NJ should be it's own country.