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Let’s play.

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Because it’s Friday and that’s what we do here.

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I can’t say any of the Maine adjectives surprised me.

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But I do think my home state of New Jersey is getting an awfully bad rap.

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I have wonderful memories of growing up there and yes, Jersey might be expensive, Italian (though that’s not a bad thing, the food is fantastic) and densely populated…. but I assure you, it’s never boring.

Now you.

Why is your state so….

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52 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  4. “Why is California called the Golden State”

    Next in line was “Why is California so expensive” which was no surprise. But I feel like that’s a question for most of the coastal states and their main cities. I hear people from Atlanta, Miami, Boston, Seattle and New York ask the same thing. I wonder if it just happens to be the popularity of these areas, more people wanting to live in the same area which sends real estate prices soaring.

    I love New Jersey, by the way. Italian food for the win! I also found out it has a huge tomato farming industry, which might be related. A number of tomato hybrids are from New Jersey. My son in law hates NJ taxes but admits it goes to good schools and parks, and even the roads are decent. The weather has been crazy this summer, but it’s normally decent compared to New York’s steamy sweaty summers. And great beaches!

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    1. New Jersey gets a bad rap for its urban areas but it’s called the garden state for a reason. My cousins lived on a farm and it was beautifully rural and peaceful.
      The tomatoes are fabulous and NJ has massive blueberry harvests as well. Admittedly the taxes are ridiculous, but the high quality Italian food is almost worth it.

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  6. Loved many parts of NJ when I trucked the areas 20 years ago. Maine is very disappointing of late then again very little is the same since 2009 or 2010.
    Why is New Hampshire the granite state?
    Why are NH Elections so important?
    The New Hampshire first-in-the-nation primary receives more media, pollster, and candidate attention than nearly all the other states combined despite New Hampshire only having four electoral spots. Why? Because it’s first.
    Why is New Hampshire so tax‑friendly?
    NH has no state income tax and no general sales tax, relying instead on property taxes, business taxes, and fees. This creates a reputation for low‑tax living but high property‑tax burdens.

    Worst thing for me about NH besides RE Tax is the fact people move here from states they hate and try to make NH the exact thing they left. Stay home and let us “Live Free of Die! 🙂

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    1. I’ll respectfully beg to differ with you on the Maine is disappointing part… but while we love to cross the border for tax free shopping I can understand not wanting to bear the property tax burden of that perk.
      As for first voting, isn’t Trump trying to move that to SC? Can’t imagine NH letting that happen.

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      2. The Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) Rules and Bylaws Committee voted in July 2026 to schedule South Carolina’s primary for January 22, 2028, ahead of Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan, and Virginia

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      3. You’re right… it was the DNC, though I wonder why.
        As for Maine changing, in what way? Too many out of states buying up our coastal property and driving up taxes, but that’s been happening since the 70’s.

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      4. So much drug abuse, even with weed legal in your state. Yes most states have it to deal with but I never thought about crime in our states, well except for murder, now nothing is safe from the hands of others. You are indeed lucky where you reside 20 min. from me on Hampton it looks like a 3rd world country at 5 pm trash everywhere, huge fights as a group of a 100 from MA try to get away from a thunderstorm outside the CASINO and decide to brawl with the guy beside him. No longer a place for those 50+ unless you go from sunrise until 8 am 🙂
        Hampton is a squatters place now full of heavy type drugs. I do not know how the new design will play for the type of visitors who now come here to tear the place up, good thing is our cops don’t play they say move you move. A lot of the rentals are owned by one man.

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      6. Fight till the death to keep it that way! I went through Biddeford one afternoon and it looked dirty and unloved then two days later a guy refusing to stop when ordered by the police to do so was shot and killed this bs doesn’t belong in New England.

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      10. Here is what is going on in another area of Maine. 😦

        A group of six minors, including a 10-year-old, allegedly beat a homeless man on the bridge between Berwick ME and Somersworth, New Hampshire, last month, leading to his hospitalization.

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  8. Interesting…ask “why is new york so ” and all the responses refer to New York City rather than New York State – which makes sense – I remember as a kid, when learning that there was such a thing as New York State and that the capital was Albany – well that just blew my mind – NYC was the center of the world to me as a kid – there was NYC and then there was the rest of the world.

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  9. Wow, I have….Why is Texas so
    Big
    Proud
    Cheap
    Wealthy
    Hot
    Flat
    Conservative
    Clearly they are talking about the rest of Texas and not the small, blue dot that is Far West Texas. Because conservative is not what is said about us. Any way, the rest are pretty much wrong as well, cheap? I need Google to explain that, as in cheap to live in or cheap in general?

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    1. They’re all generalizations. No state is the same everywhere. Maine is two completely different worlds. Southern – liberal blue, northern – conservative red. They have more land, we have more people.
      And heck… is any place cheap these days?
      🥴

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  10. Not a State (Yet!), but… Why is Alberta so convasvative (huntress beat me to that one😉, so it must be an “oil/gas” thing),
    WHY do so many people want to become American, why do so many people hate non-whites, why do so many people hate those who are not (Christian), why does our premier tell the world we have no money yet we are the richest province in Canada, why do Alnertans hate non-heterosexuals do much, why can’t Albertans attach batteries to our solar power systems, why do cattle ranches have to be so big, why do does the sun shine on Alberta, why can’t out politicians believe the climate is in crisis!
    I could go on, but what’s the use…

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  19. I’ve only been to NJ once, just a few years ago; not in the city, and it was just lovely!

    My mom was born there, and they had a farm in the fifties/sixties.

    No surprise for me here:
    Why is Florida

    …so hot

    …so humid

    …so flat

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