People hear the words New Jersey and immediately think of the land that is adjacent to New York. They think of the dumping ground for all of the New Yorkers filth. They think of steroid laden men, and concrete jungles. That all exists in northern NJ, but southern NJ is a land of fields, farmers, and beaches.

When I first moved up to NJ, I had no idea what to expect. I had been warned about things that my soft southern raised person might find abrasive. I came up expecting rude people, smelly air, and a lack of a rural area. What I found was nothing like that. The people up here are kind, although opinionated. The air smells like the sweetest grass you can imagine in the summer, and in the winter it smells like most places do when they get snow, like cold, wet earth. The lack of a rural area, I guess is subjective, because in some areas you can drive in one direction for miles and not run into civilization, only to find out all you needed to do was take a right. The rural, farming areas of southern New Jersey seem to exist along side the

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