Poll of the Day > WalletHub names New Jersey Best State to Live

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https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-jersey-is-americas-best-state-to-live-in-new-survey-says/3107116/

do you agree, to all who lived or visited there? (Poll Question)

I've never been there but I have always been under the assumption that it sucks since it's always the butt of jokes

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*Insert J. Jonah Jameson laughing gif*

Muscles posted...

I've never been there but I have always been under the assumption that it sucks since it's always the butt of jokes

I've been there either on a work trip or driving through a few times. Never had to go to the area near NYC thankfully, I could imagine that being pretty crappy. The western and southern parts of the state at least where it's more scenic / densely populated are actually pretty decent.

But I'm still laughing b/c NJ taxes people like fucking crazy even compared to most blue states (probably only California and Hawaii are worse? and people actually want to live in those states), so even if none of the jokes have merit and Jersey Shore was an elaborate hoax to sully the image of the state, there's still no way in hell it's the best state to live in, especially from the perspective of a company calling itself "WalletHub"

https://i.imgur.com/sOIJDGo.mp4

While the USA is on the decline, it seems highly unlikely the rest of the country fallen so far as to make NJ the best state. New England in generally a garbage region.

The Garden State just edged out Massachusetts for top honors, with New York coming in third. In 2019, New Jersey was fourth on the WalletHub list.

*guffaws*

MA? Really? That's one ridiculous North-East bias!

Well, let's see where CT ranks on there...

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-to-live-in/62617

22 - Connecticut - 55.05

Well, that's a little high, but not as ridiculous as I expected. They *vastly* overrate CT's education and health, probably because they're looking at entitlement programs. Ranking the state #46 in terms of affordability is certainly fair, though.

It seems like the ratings skew towards arbitrary intangibles, since they have a "QoL" category and a safety category (that doesn't seem to reflect crime rates, since NJ's violent crime rate would put several other states over it yet it's ranked as the safest)

EDIT:

streamofthesky posted... *Insert J. Jonah Jameson laughing gif*

Guess you beat me to the reference >_> I was busy checking citations, though.

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New Jersey is the armpit of the US and smells like trash

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Jen0125 posted...

New Jersey is the armpit of the US and smells like trash

Well, the eastern armpit. The western one is in the high desert of SoCal.

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My entire experience in New Jersey was basically trying to get into a gas station on the left hand side of the road (where you couldn't turn left), and being told I couldn't pump my own gas once I got there.

Those 10 minutes in that state was enough to last me a lifetime. I never intend to go back.

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^Yea, one of the few 'Full Service' Gas Stations left in the Country

streamofthesky posted...

Never had to go to the area near NYC thankfully

I think you're referring to Newark, and yea, it's very 'Rough', to say the least...but Jersey City and Hoboken is pretty decent, in some parts.

Oregon is full service too, right?

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Jen0125 posted...

Oregon is full service too, right?

By law. You're actually supposed to let them service your vehicle and not do it yourself, there.

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Do you have to tip the gas pumpers? Seems like a racket.

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Jen0125 posted...

Do you have to tip the gas pumpers? Seems like a racket.

I tried to pump my own gas and they wouldn't let me. Don't know if I'm "supposed" to tip, but like hell I'm going to for a "service" that was forced upon me, so I didn't.

Dikitain posted...

My entire experience in New Jersey was basically trying to get into a gas station on the left hand side of the road (where you couldn't turn left), and being told I couldn't pump my own gas once I got there.

Those 10 minutes in that state was enough to last me a lifetime. I never intend to go back.

Yeah, the no left turns was fucking horrible. Have to take a stupid fucking righthand detour around in a loop. My co-worker and I were on a work trip there and literally plotting where to go eat and checking which businesses had adjoining parking lots we could drive through just to avoid that shit.

New Jersey is not a good place to live, it's unsafe in a lot of areas, more than NYC.
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So much ignorance and jealousy in this topic.
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If you wanted to give the U.S. an enema, you'd stick the nozzle in New Jersey.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

So much ignorance and jealousy in this topic.

Forgot about Poe's Law, this is PO's Law! =p

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It's a Joysey thing, you wouldn't understand

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Best state differs for everyone. There is no state that is simply the best. Different states have different perks and those perks vary on which ones are important to each person.

Nonsense. In the US, the best state is clearly depression. /s

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