NY is WAY better than NJ

Family Life - New Jersey is not called the "Garden State" by chance! Early well-heeled New Yorker's knew that New York was where they made their money, but the suburbs of New Jersey was the place to raise their families. Suburbia at its best is the towns that are close to the George Washington Bridge:Fort Lee, Alpine, Cloister, Demurest, Park Ridge etc. Just go to Columbia University and you will notice all the reserved "Doctors Parking" areas are full of New Jersey number plates! Having worked in Real Estate, the number of Chinese people that have moved into towns like Tenafly, Teaneck, Ramsey, and Saddle River is astounding. As soon as they have made a sizable amount of money from their China Town businesses, the next step in to move to New Jersey, where their family will be safe and their children will be educated in superior schools. Not everyone can afford NY "prep schools - " tuition at such a schools runs around $30,000 per pupil per year! So New York is not a good place to live cause you will not be able to afford it and if you are living in New York you are most likely trying to make ends meet by working 80 hours a wee to pay the rent and or the mortgage on the house you are living. Transportation. New Jersey has excellent bus and rail systems, especially to New York City. Very few people from New Jersey, who work in NYC, drive themselves. They either take NJ bus transport or the train. Every city in Bergen, Passaic and Morris counties has a very comprehensive rail system and bus system transporting commuters to NYC. Locally, the bus and rail systems are not so developed, but this is being rectified. Both NJ Bus and Rail Transport are looking to hook up more towns with more frequent bus and rail stops. The recently open Frank Lautenburg Rail Hub in Secaucus is an example of expanding rail service in New Jersey. It should be noted that New Jersey is noted for its many highways and the amount of cars that its citizens drive around the Garden State. Culture - Concerning culture, New Jersey compares very favorably. The building of NJPAC, the New Jersey Lincoln Center, is a wonderful cultural center, that has stopped many New Jerseyans commuting to the city for opera, symphony concerts and big name artists. New Jersey has sizable theatres at its many universities like Rutgers University (the George Street Playhouse), Princeton, The MacArthur Theater and The Meadowlands, where home grown big name entertainers, like Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and Snooky, perform regularly. Diversity - New Jersey is known as a very diverse state. Nationals from Palestine (Paterson) Armenia (Paramus) Greece (Clifton, Wyckoff) Italy (Paramus, Montclair), Jamaica (Newark and East Orange) Haiti (Maywood) Israel (Livingstone, Teaneck) and Poland (Garfield). Don't forget the State of New Jersey has about 8 million residents. New York City alone has a population of over 9 million. Of course it has more diverse citizens and homosexuals in numbers! Education - New Jersey is #1 in the United States as far as excellent high school graduates. New Jersey has surpassed Connecticut, the gold standard for many years, in producing excellent high school graduates, who are admitted into the finest universities of the USA. 40% of New Jersey high school graduates study at out of state colleges and universities. All these graduates are eagerly sought by Universities all over the United States because they know that New Jersey high school graduates are the best – both academically and in sports! If you want an Ivy University, go to Princeton. New York has its Columbia. We compare most favorably in all areas here in New Jersey, a small state compared to the large State of New York.