I live in NJ. We have more varied people here than any place in the world. We have Italian neighbor hoods. Portuguese neighborhoods, Jewish neighborhoods, Arab, Black, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Chinese and the list goes on. We are spitting distance from Manhattan that truly has the best restaurants in the world. Actually we have world class amazing beaches but it's a well kept secret. A true NJ person will never tell an outsider where's the great beaches are located. If someone blind folded you and dropped you one of our good beaches you could be told you were on a world famous beach but no you are in NJ. Our wages are among the top of the country but then again so is the price of real estate and the accompanying real estate taxes. An example of this is a common cop base salary with no rank could be over 140K and with over time over 200K. The problem with the high salaries are the price of the houses. A very modest size house will run you a half million in north Jersey. I will say this about 80% of the US is that the food is terrible. People in Kansas and Indiana have zero idea what a good pizza or bagel is. Zero. Try getting Italian food in other states outside of NY/NJ is just about impossible. Italians don't live in Wyoming. Yes, Australians have no clue what good food is.
