really productive field service today! my dad placed the greatest man book with a very spiritually minded young guy. and i had a nice convo with a stay-at-home mom who asked ME for my phone number so she can call me with questions about the magazine.
Fresty, you're totally having the best experiences down there! You should be in the next Yearbook--South Jersey!
haha... that would be hysterical. Experiences from the 2007 Yearbook - South Africa, Lithunia, and South Jersey (not the beach part, but the hick part)
Hahaha I love the clarification of which part!
it's good he made that clarification. i'm from south jersey and i'm no hick!
You mean Central Jersey. There's 2 hours more of Jersey to the South.
i've heard of our area being called south jersey much, much more than central jersey. i guess it's splitting hairs.
Here's how I see it. Middlesex and above is North. Ocean and Monmouth are Central. Burlington and below is South.
here's how i see it.
above Exit 145 (West Orange and Above)- North Jersey
between 144 and 115 (East Orange to Hazlet) - Central
below 115 (Hazlet to Cape May and anything else) - South
having said that, I lived in the northern most town in the entire state ... haha
first off zabel, you live too far from civilization out there in hacketts-"no man's-land"-town - turnpike is scary, parkway is the only safe way to travel.
Well That's obviously just because the more North in Jersey one is, one seems to think that a bigger region is considered South Jersey. But, if you're going by dividing up the parkway, it would be something more like Exit 1 - 57 is South, 57 - 114 Central, 114 and above, North.
Actually wouldnt anything below the big bridge be considered South Jersey? I think thats exit 119 or below that...
That's messed up. haha
Obviously, Northerns will never accept people living below part of central ever. But that doesn't matter. All the Centrals know that to be a real Southerner you have to be Piney pretty much. And have fun trying to find a Piney in Ocean County. There's a couple hidden in Western part where it almost touches the border of Burlington.. that's it.
That's the way I split it up...big bridge!
Wikipedia states otherwise! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Jersey
Notice the key points where it states --> "...This leads many North Jersey residents to claim that Central Jersey simply does not exist."
As well as notice Ocean County is considered part of the Central Jersey region, while Burlington County is not.
It's like a combo of geography as well as culture and urbanisation that make an area of Jersey, Central or South.
"Ocean County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It the southernmost county in the New York metropolitan area, with the Southern part of the county falling in the Philadelphia metro area. Its county seat is Toms River6. As of the United States 2000 Census, the population was 510,916. 2005 Census Bureau estimates show the county's population growing to around 555,000, making it the fastest growing county in New Jersey.
Ocean County was established in 1850 from portions of Monmouth County."
Aren't Newark and Jersey City considered central jersey? That's what I always thought. Anything like 100 miles above them is North and 100 miles below is south (at least in the map in my head).
if you head 100 miles north of Newark, you're about 70 miles into New York state...
God, is it hate-on webby day? Fine, I have no sense of time or distance and apparently I don't desire to learn new things about the bible. I'm heading up to my roof to jump off now.
wait a sec, don't take that as an attack! newark is definitely north jersey, imo. it's way up there is all i'm saying.
unless you consider like only sussex county to be north jersey.
Well I guess the people way way up North might see those cities as Central. Technically, I don't think it's a fair division. Btw, I'll hopefully be in PA in early 2007 funnily enough.
Thank you! At least Im not the only one who splits it up that way!!
Do you even know what bridge it is? haha. Anyway, I think that'd mean South Jersey is bigger than North Jersey and no such thing as Central Jersey. I'm not bothered, 'cause I'm gonna be a Pennsylvanian soon.
Yeh, I figured he did mean the Raritan Bridge. haha Just bringing it up for a laugh. It'd be odd to be from New Jersey and not even know what bridge that is.
I know its the Raritan Bridge, but all my life it has been referred to as the "Big Bridge" and if your going south on the GSP over the "Big Bridge" you can spot the cross making factory, or well what looks like one... look for it next time, its on your right it looks like a factory building with a huge cross on it... I guess its a church, but it could be a factory!
Garden State Parkway Map of Central Jersey http://www.state.nj.us/turnpike/gsp-cmap.htm
And that's the word of the NJ Government
Ahhhh... whatever If your not in Bergen County your south of me so your Southern Jersey....
raritan bridge is between exit 126 and 124 ... (?)
Wouldnt Central Jersey be considered... ummm more Central? Like going west on 80 all that would be considered Central Jersey (i.e. Hackettstown, Parsippany, Morristown...) I mean anything that is south of Passaic County and west of that would all be central... right?
Ocean and Burlington county are right next each other, side by side, so by your own rationale Ocean County is South Jersey. See, now, if you were to split Jersey into three equal parts, top to bottom, yes, we'd be in the bottom portion of Central Jersey. I don't know, man. Splitting hairs. Will you accept South Central Jersey?
nnice one. keep it up.