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Originally Posted by PornoDoggy
I always get confused about New Jersey ... I know about the part near NYC, because I was stationed with a couple of guys from there in the Navy.
The part I still don't know much about is, I guess, the south part - you know, the part that has Philadelphia in its suburbs.
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Oy.
Ok, Jersey is pretty much two states joined. The center line is found just a bit south of Trenton. There is North Jersey (Joisey) which is basically full of interstates.
The old joke "Oh, you live in Joisey? What exit?" primarily applies to North Jersey. In some ways, there's a bunch in the southern part of the state, but in the north, it really is so honeycombed that saying the exit really does (scarily) tell someone roughly where you live.
North Jersey is full of rocks. Looks like a bunch of giants lived there once and had a boulder war. It's also where the Pallisades, I very tall, very long mesa and cliffs are. Their seashores also fairly suck up there. North Jersey exists as the suburb of New Yawk. The main two cities are Newark and Trenton.
South Jersey is the suburb of Philly. It is there that the state moniker or motto of the "Garden State" comes from. Plenty of land, green, the Pine Barrens and woodlands, fruit orchards, plenty of farms. Lots of residential space with big lawns. Plenty of lakes down there too. And the best beaches and the best boardwalks. The main two cities are Camden and Atlantic City.
Oh and so screwed up is that state, so divided by North and South, get this. You can go to Trenton and take the train up to NYC. You can go to Camden and take the train down to Atlantic City. However, the train systems do not join up. That's right, a mere 25 miles between Camden and Trenton, but they don't join. Weird.