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forrestina Dec 5, 2006

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 numbe...

thatdarngirl Dec 5, 2006

Fresty, you're totally having the best experiences down there! You should be in the next Yearbook--South Jersey!

superhero Dec 6, 2006

haha... that would be hysterical. Experiences from the 2007 Yearbook - South Africa, Lithunia, and South Jersey (not the beach part, but the hick part)

thatdarngirl Dec 6, 2006

Hahaha I love the clarification of which part!

fivezero Dec 6, 2006

it's good he made that clarification. i'm from south jersey and i'm no hick!

theremin Dec 6, 2006

You mean Central Jersey. There's 2 hours more of Jersey to the South.

fivezero Dec 6, 2006

i've heard of our area being called south jersey much, much more than central jersey. i guess it's splitting hairs.

theremin Dec 7, 2006

Here's how I see it. Middlesex and above is North. Ocean and Monmouth are Central. Burlington and below is South.

superhero Dec 7, 2006

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 ha...

g.f.s.rocks g.f.s.rocksOG 2001

Actually wouldnt anything below the big bridge be considered South Jersey? I think thats exit 119 or below that...

theremin thereminOG 2002

That's messed up. haha

theremin thereminOG 2002

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.

thatdarngirl thatdarngirlOG 2002

That's the way I split it up...big bridge!

theremin thereminOG 2002

Wikipedia states otherwise! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Jersey

theremin thereminOG 2002

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.

theremin thereminOG 2002

"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."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_County

web-toedchloe web-toedchloeOG 2001

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).

iwz iwz

if you head 100 miles north of Newark, you're about 70 miles into New York state...

web-toedchloe web-toedchloeOG 2001

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.

iwz iwz

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.

theremin thereminOG 2002

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.

g.f.s.rocks g.f.s.rocksOG 2001

Thank you! At least Im not the only one who splits it up that way!!

theremin thereminOG 2002

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.

fivezero fivezeroOG 2003

Which bridge?

superhero superheroOG 2004

he means the raritan bridge ... haha

theremin thereminOG 2002

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.

g.f.s.rocks g.f.s.rocksOG 2001

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!

theremin thereminOG 2002

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

g.f.s.rocks g.f.s.rocksOG 2001

Ahhhh... whatever If your not in Bergen County your south of me so your Southern Jersey....

superhero superheroOG 2004

raritan bridge is between exit 126 and 124 ... (?)

fivezero fivezeroOG 2003

that's about right. right after the bridge is the 287 exit, which is 127. 129 is the pike.

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