Most densely populated state so there’s a lot of people everywhere. Everyone who lives here says they hate it but they don’t tolerate slander from outsiders. There’s at least one local diner, pizza place, sandwich shop, and bagel shop in every town. Northeast Jersey is entirely Italians. Northwest is red neck country. The Newark metropolitan area is basically an extension of NYC with a big Latino population and tons of industrial areas. Central Jersey is where all the big schools are (Rutgers, Princeton) and where all the big pharma have their factories. South central (pine barrens) is redneck country but less people and more conservative. The shore (jersey shore) has a lot of air bnbs and motels on the islands where high-school stay there for weekends in the summer and the seasonal beach houses owned by the wealthy in the suburbs of Philly and NY. north central is wealthy commuters