First of all, Princeton does count, Justin. A lot of people will try and play like Princeton is some outpost of Connecticut, but Princeton is New Jersey. Einstein lived in New Jersey. That's what I like to remind people.
Ravi, you do my heart good. Are you from South Plainfield by any chance? Jersey City? You are good people wherever you're from.
Seattle does have some of the great natural surroundings of any US city- no ice, no snow (except in the mountains where you can ski into April), no hot weather, the aforementioned mountains, rivers, lakes, the Sound and much less crime and traffic than I'm used to. It's a very livable little town but the natives are, very frankly, appalling, stuck-up hicks and if that isn't true (which it might not be, admittedly) they are definitely the very worst drivers I have ever encountered. It's like they're all student drivers with people in their cars yelling at them. For a Seattlite, the Tonnelle traffic circle would cause such panic that it would prove as impassible as an enormous mound of bricks. Sometimes when I'm on I-5, I like to think what would happen if the drivers around me were suddenly teleported to the BQE - it would be carnage. It's not that the traffic is bad out here (it isn't, contrary to what you've heard), it's just that you are so stunned by the idiocy time seems to deform and stretch out.
What I need is for all you proud New Jerseyans (and New Yorkers, foreigners, Texans and Californians, even) to move out here to the Northwest and throw these morons back into the hills where they belong. And when you do, please be sure to bring people who can make a real slice of pizza. I am slowly going insane from lack of pizza.
Nathan, shout out to Chilltown. JC in da house. I lived there for ten years or more. And props to Westfield, as long as we're at it. New Jersey on top in per capita income again, eh? Screw Connecticut.
Seth Ackerman, you'll find that New Jerseyans are at least ten points smarter and fifteen percent more real than average. New Yorkers tend towards the showy and vulgar, very frankly - no offense intended - but New Jerseyans are happy to carry New Yorkers economically because they're very entertaining.
peace and love to all
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