New Jersey
There are actually 4 regions to New Jersey
Let me settle the controversy as soon as and for all.
Sure, there’s a North Jersey and a South Jersey. Sure, they’re very completely different.
When North Jersey people go to “town,” they’re headed into Manhattan.
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When South Jersey goes to “town,” it is Philadelphia, and most simply say they’re headed to “Philly.”
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The query has all the time been, the place do you draw the road?
Standard knowledge has the road at Route 195. The issue, in fact, is utilizing that line, that places Allentown, New Jersey, and Vineland in the identical South Jersey area.
It additionally places Asbury Park and Ridgewood in the identical North Jersey area. Ridiculous.
Let me clear up the confusion.
The Northern a part of the state does begin north of 195 and the southern portion south of 195. However true South Jerseyans know that actual South Jersey begins for those who draw a line East to West from Burlington to Plumsted.
In fact, as soon as that line hits Lake Hurst within the Manchester/Toms River space, you are now not in South Jersey, nor are you in Central Jersey.
That is the beginning of the “Jersey Shore” area.
I might put Lakewood, Holmdel, and Howell as border cities with most figuring out as a part of the “Shore area”.
A caller weighed in to say that in line with the NJ DOT, Central Jersey goes as far north as Phillipsburg. I feel that is actually a stretch.
What’s attention-grabbing is New Jersey has all the time been divided into areas.
If we return a few hundred years, NJ was divided between east and west from 1676 till the province was united in 1702 beneath one governor as a royal colony within the British Empire.
So which part of the Backyard State do you name residence? And do you agree with my evaluation?
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