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I think you can attribute everything you just wrote to every major metro area, due to population growth in this country. If you think about it, the country went from 200 million to 300 million in the course of my lifetime (1966 to now). I'd say that Philadelphia's suburbs have been spared much of the sprawl that you'd see in a comparable area in another city. Consider Plano Texas. If you lived there in 1965, the population was a little under 5,000 souls. Today, it's 267,000 people. (Incidentally, I think that's a disgrace) That's what sprawl is like in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro is like. I'd say that if you ran comparables with towns like Medford, Mount Laurel, Toms River, Tuckerton, you'd see that you are very fortunate in comparison.
You're absolutely right. I've spoken with people who lived in Mount Laurel, Marlton, Medford in the '60s and early '70s. Their homes were surrounded by orchards, farms. Someone raised cows on a farm on Rt. 70 around Cropwell Rd. (McDonalds now) until the early '70s. They watched as the 18th and 19th century farmhouses were razed to make way for the new developments. My community was built around a former cranberry bog. The area, hundreds of acres, was owned, farmed, managed by many generations of the same family. An old, sagging, vandalized farmhouse stands on the edge of a development just a mile up the road from where I live. No one there seems to know anything about it.
I wasn't born here, but I've adopted this crooked little state.
There are so many great points in this thread-- it's another reason why I love these forums. South Jersey is a fantastic place. We've had a summer home there for generations. I've always loved it, and will probably move there some day. No McMansions for our family, just a house in the woods. I too have fallen into the trap of expressing my disgust with NE New Jersey as a general disdain for the entire state. Southern New Jersey is a different world, one of a much slower pace in more rural surroundings. Less pollution, lower cost of living (if you're not right on the beach!), and close proximity to the ocean as well as Philly and NYC make it very desirable.
Well, yes, many Wawa's now in North Jersey. I love North And South. I have small place in seaside, and primary in North Jersey. We have a few Wawa's now. Too much fun made of Jersey, and I think it's mean to tear down the state. I don't know why they do it so much.
There are differences, but not that many. I guess south, the air is definately clearer. Love walking the boards beside the Ocean, and I guess I would rather live South, but my friends and family don't necessarily agree, so I guess can't go there permanantly. Also, too many stairs in So. Jersey place. Going to have to sell. North and South.
Okay, spoke about South Jersey.
^^ its funny that wawa's only hitting n. jersey now. i had plenty of them around while growing up in southern ct in the 80's...
Wawa in NJ seem to be south of I-78 , although the bulk of them ive found are south of I-195. I go to Wawa every time i'm PA , there my favorite convince store , and i take them over 7-11 any day.
I would too. We have friends in Brick and they refer to themselves as South Jersey. weird
My ex grew up in Jackson and I know her mother emerged from Turnersville, their city was always Philadelphia. Also the Lakewood Blue Claws are a Minor Leage Phillies, not Mets or Yankees. I live in North Brunswick now, grew up in Manalapan, and Ocean County has always been a vacation to either place.
Growing up in Cumberland County I always considered considered Tom's River as being "way up there in North Jersey" and as a boarder town for North/South (this is also before I knew of a Central Jersey)
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