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a la izquierda

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10. i was born and raised there...

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Sun Mar 18, 2012, 03:39 PM

Mar 2012

and i love my home state. it displays the best (the natural beauty) and worst (overconsumption, 2 second attention spans) of the USA.
Those of us from Jersey don't take any grief from anyone. And we really can't completely lose our accents.

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state by state speak your mind about...new jersey [View all] SwampG8r Mar 2012 OP

When my daughter-in-law first came to Jersey she was shocked at how beautiful it was. We picked her monmouth Mar 2012 #1

tomatoes cali Mar 2012 #2

We make a pretty damned good pizza here in smelly old Bayonne. smokey nj Mar 2012 #3

I hated it pipi_k Mar 2012 #4

Know what you call a pretty girl in New Jersy?... 1620rock Mar 2012 #5

"Tomato pie" is strictly a regional thing. In my patch of the Garden State, we say pizza. smokey nj Mar 2012 #9

tomato pie is a specific kind of pizza tabbycat31 Mar 2012 #12

All I know about Jersey I have seen from TV CatholicEdHead Mar 2012 #6

Jellystone campground is there in a town called Elmer. Luminous Animal Mar 2012 #7

Which off-ramp? n/t cherokeeprogressive Mar 2012 #8

i was born and raised there... a la izquierda Mar 2012 #10

Has even worse traffic then we do in Connecticut. Jennicut Mar 2012 #11

We didn't get the chance to see but just a bit of New Jersey... Tikki Mar 2012 #13

I love Cape May Point. grntuscarora Mar 2012 #14

It's beautiful where I live JustAnotherGen Apr 2012 #15