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My_user_name_1 t1_ixu8ggg wrote

I live in Arizona now but I'm from Howell. People seem to think NJ only borders NY. It does drive me nuts when they hear I'm from NJ and think I know New York, or shocked when people find out I'm a Phillies fan. In terms of food I do think the Pork Roll is the only NJ traditional food (Maybe Tomato pie but that seems to only be a Trenton area thing). Yes I wish NJ would market its own identity. I mean Connecticut is able to distance its self from its neighbors, maybe NJ should try as well.

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Technical-Car OP t1_ixv2pyq wrote

Bruh I really appreciating you spitting mad factoids. Keep it up. You might be the best commenter so far gif

Also, the people who talk about the jobs in NYC despite NJ having plenty of white collar jobs (and you can live under 10 minute drive to them).

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hfhifi t1_ixvfggw wrote

Not true. The number of white collar job opportunities in Manhattan dwarf NJ in law, finance, hospitality, advertising, marketing, social media and dozens more. I tried many times to find jobs in NJ in my field and never found one.

Do you think people really want to commute to NY every day if there were opportunities in NJ? I hated commuting but would have been significantly underemployed if I didn’t.

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My_user_name_1 t1_ixxulx3 wrote

NJ needs to do like Connecticut and attract those high paying jobs. In 2017 I had to take a CT commuter train from the east to Stamford to catch an Amtrak during the AM rush hour. My trains was packed leading into Stamford and then empited out at Stamford despite the next stop being NYC. All the trains did this, going to NYC at maybe 10% capacity if that

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hfhifi t1_ixxym7w wrote

Tomato pie originated in Connecticut. Specifically New Haven. Kind of makes your point because the whole country knows about New Haven apizza and nobody outside NJ knows about Trenton.

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