Would you rather live in Oklahoma or New Jersey?

[they don't love you like i love you]

New Jersey (Not Bushie)

[retromike22]

New Jersey (Not Bushie)

[Sopranos Republican]

New Jersey is a fine American state. Oklahoma is like Saudi Arabia but less charming.

[Sumner 1868]

Write-in Iowa.

[Eraserhead]

Ugh.

Ugh.

Ugh.

New Jersey.

Ugh.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Write-in Iowa.

Yeah that would be a lot better than either. But still obvious choice is obvious.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Although to be fair, if New Jersey as basically just like Oklahoma except with New Brunswick in it then it'd still be a net positive, because New Brunswick is simply that good. It's also the place that has the best songs written about it. Don't know of any songs called "Theme Song For An Oklahoma City/Tulsa Basement Show" after all.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Although to be fair, if New Jersey as basically just like Oklahoma except with New Brunswick in it then it'd still be a net positive, because New Brunswick is simply that good.

...

New Brunswick is the most middling city in the state. What are you going to do there? Go to the hospital for heat exhaustion after taking a two hour walk across the most unnecessarily big campus I've ever seen. That's the New Brunswick experience.

Though I'm sure Ingress must be great there or something. Surely that's what puts it above the actual highlights of central Jersey - just about every other municipality east of Route 1 and then some.

[they don't love you like i love you]

LOL my thing for New Brunswick LONG predates Ingress. Basically it's to my music what Nashville is to country or Seattle was to grunge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qS3rLIR6xA

[Joe Republic]

I thought we'd moved onto talking about a Canadian province for some reason.  That BRTD, always meandering the narrative into places you'd least expect!

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

New Jersey (Not Bushie)

[IceSpear]

I'd rather live in Somalia than Oklahoma.

[Modernity has failed us]

Jersey....easily.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Kabul > Jokelahoma

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Oklahoma should be abolished.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

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.

[TDAS04]

Not Oklahoma. 

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

New Jersey is a top 5 state, let's not kid ourselves.

[Mr. Illini]

Joysey by a mile

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Not New Jersey.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

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.

[Torie]

The state state where the garbage meets the sea, as my Commercial Transactions Law Prof so uncharitably described the state. He probably just saw the state from the Jersey Turnpike, with all those tank farms along the road.

[Sumner 1868]

Oklahoma should be abolished.

Should it join Texas or Kansas?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Oklahoma should be abolished.

Should it join Texas or Kansas?

Actually, this is how I see the problem: the only way for Oklahoma to improve is to abolish state authorities, arrest all hard-core Republicans and expell them to Bakersfield, establish mandatory fat camps and appoint Mechaman as Governor General with absolute powers so he can slowly civilize the area, which should also be renamed to something more fitting.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

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.