In between early childhood (Hill Towns/southern Vermont) and college (Amherst) I spent quite a few years in South Jersey. It has its charms, it really does.
What would you consider South Jersey's charms? And I don't really consider the shore to be South Jersey. The shore is the shore.
I rarely went to the shore anyway. It was nice when I did, but it was really just once every year or two.
Wawa. The Pine Barrens. There's a je nais se quoi to the specific form that suburbanization takes in (parts of) Burlington and Camden Counties, although whether I liked that or hated it really depended on my mood. Something about the overall scope of the place is different from North Jersey--I wouldn't dream of describing it as 'laid-back', but it's less overwhelming, possibly because Philadelphia as a center of gravity is more manageable in scale than New York City. Yankees suck, so being on Phillies turf instead was nice. 2008 was particularly fun in that respect. 2009...less so.
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