What Is the Most Rubbish New Jersey County? This Time, as a POLL

Oh man, tough one. I don't know the southern counties well, but I'd probably say Bergen. In spite of being rich as fuck, it's ugly as sin.

In spite of being rich as fuck, it's ugly as sin.

i think that that covers the majority of north jersey, FWIW.

I think Bergen is also densest.

Well, Hudson has Jersey City, where I live, which I think is alright at least. We also have Union City and Bayonne, which have some character, and, yes, Hoboken.

Union has some pleasant enough middle class towns. Morris is rich but less ugly. Essex is easy to pick on for high-crime cities but I like Newark. I don't really know much about Passaic except for Paterson. Sussex is rather nice.

I guess Monmouth is kind of rubbish now that most of the farmland is gone.

dude I grew up in monmouth county, visit there about 6 or 7 times a year, and I don't think I've once lamented "o where have the farmlands gone." I do miss the eatontown circle and its drive-in, tho.

my candidates would be atlantic or ocean.

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I went to school in atlantic county. they don't call it the pine barrens for nothing. being close to philly and atlantic city is like being conveniently located between scylla and charybdis. I spent a lot of time humping it up to nyc cause I couldn't stand the place.

durt JERZ. The funny thing is, if you're from North Jersey you have no clue about anything from South Jersey, and the other way around. So i'll answer for NORTH JERZ here.

Bergen County has some beautiful towns ... Rutherford is basically composed of nothing but 3 story Victorians from the 19th century. Snobby, but not on the level of Ridgewood or something... that town is a total shitfest.

Passaic County has all those urban areas like Paterson, Passaic, etc., but the cities are actually really nice looking, with tons of untouched 19th century architecture. The suburbs are full of eye-talians and Jewish folk, so you can get that really good Passover grape juice just about anywhere.

Morris County looks like the richy rich suburbs of DC or New England or something.

I'll have to say Sussex. They have that really batshit insane representative there who makes racist, second-amendment humping politicians from Alabama seem sensible.

I'm not from Jersey, but I've lived there over ten years and spent time in 2/3 of the counties (all but the southernmost seven) due to my job.

if you're from hudson county, anything south of middlesex is south jersey. if you're from monmouth county, anything south of ocean county is south jersey. nobody wants to be from south jersey.

I wonder what part of jersey people from sussex county say they're from? cause when you say "north jersey" most people immediately think of the smell of clorox.

Why the smell of Clorox? All the chemical plants and refineries are in South Jersey. North Jersey is mostly towns where the cheapest house is 400k.

I have relatives from Cherry Hill. One of them now lives in Moorestown, which is an amazingly beautiful and old city. NJ is awesome. I grew up in Essex County, which has some beautiful parts, and my mother now lives in Somerset County, where there are still some farms and it's quite beautiful, but the farms are giving way to mcmansions.

I live in Morris. It's nice.

Why the smell of Clorox?

generally speaking, people who are not from jersey derive their impressions of north jersey from driving on the turnpike between the gw and exit 11.

i know a lot of "south jerz pride!!!!" people, lord knows why

union is the wrong answer in this poll, in case anyone was wondering

PINEY POWER

i was born in somerset, which was, like dan said, incredibly beautiful and full of farmland that has been developed to hell over the last 15 or 20 years. my parents still own a small house and some acres there that used to be surrounded by orchards and fields; now its the only non-development house in a 5 mile radius.

i grew up in mercer county, which i love, but is probably less "jersey" and more "connecticut."

if you literally mean "rubbish," i think bergen wins

You gotta see the new Xanadu project by the Meadowlands going up. Talk about fucking rubbish.

in 5th grade one of my teachers was named mr. morris, and he used to live on morris street in morristown in morris county.

I just realized I've lived in 5 counties in jersey

union
monmouth
ocean
atlantic
burlington

in the 80s I used to hear that jersey was the most populous state per square mile. which is pretty amazing, if you consider how much of it was woods and fields at the time.

yeah it's still the densest state afaik. no 9 in population too i think.

per wikipedia, still #1!

Population Ranked 11th in the US
- Total 8,414,350 (8,724,560 as of 2006)
- Density 1,134/sq mi
438/km² (1st in the US)

"densest state" lol

also from wikipedia, fitting

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you guys have an Essex too?

the correct answer is "every county north of Raritan"

My grandparents lived on a lake in sussex county and it seemed really rural. As kids we felt like it was a major expedition to get to the nearest movie theater.

I think we just said "tri-state area" to designate the westerly location.

Sussex County is still pretty rural

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I don't know enough about the counties to vote, but I'd like to eat at the Cherry Hill diner.

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Union 2

WHAT DID I SAY

Fucking bullshit.

Municipalities

Index map of Essex County Municipalities
Belleville (township)
Bloomfield (township)
Caldwell (borough)
Cedar Grove (township)
East Orange (city)
Essex Fells (borough)
Fairfield (township)
Glen Ridge (borough)
Irvington (city)
Livingston (township)
Maplewood (township)
Millburn (township)
Montclair (township)
Newark (city)
North Caldwell (borough)
Nutley (township)
Orange (township)
Roseland (borough)
South Orange (village)
Verona (township)
West Caldwell (township)
West Orange (township

yeah, essex as the most rubbish county surprises me too. just staying in north jersey, hudson and bergen county are easily more crap than essex is IMHO.

anyway, my OMGWTF moment here is how hunterdon county could get any votes for being rubbish -- i'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around that at all.

I voted for Hunterdon! Too many people commuting 2 1/2 hrs to NYC.

i think maybe essex won cause of newark.
airport is such a shithole.

whoa, i knew essex would win but i didn't expect it to win so hands-down!

monmouth county is okay from what i remember. one of my first boyfriends was from freehold and we'd go visit his family there sometimes. very suburban, but not offensively so... no real garish displays of wealth.

no real garish displays of wealth.

you didn't get to colts neck, then, i reckon?!?

granted it's been a while so my memory is probably shot to hell

also my current yardstick for "garish" is southern california, which out-garishes pretty much anything

lol ppl hate civilization

if southern california is your concept of civilization, I'll eat my hat

I've never been to SoCal, my meaning is that what civ is in NJ is in Essex Co.

I bet english people voted essex haha