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by: Johnny Action Space Punk

Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 12:48:48 AM EDT



It was a year ago my wife took a job out here in Newark and we moved from sleepy Ypsilanti Michigan (next door to Ann Arbor). We've been subletting a place here in Jersey City for the past year and we had a decision to make. Jersey City gets an awful bad rap and a lot of it is deserved but after sizing up the people of Jersey City we decided to make it our 'Happily ever after' and tomorrow we'll buy our first ever property, a beautiful loft 3 blocks from the Hudson River with a rooftop view of NYC.

The lesson here is this; a city can have a bad reputation, it can have one of if not the most corrupt city governments going, it can be loud and crime can be on an uptick. BUT when you take the time to get to know the people you find THEY are the true measure of the town. They are the salt of the earth, they are your neighbors who hate the crime and graft just as you do. Citizens of New Jersey you have shattered every stereotype I'd ever read or heard about you. Everyone has been helpful beyond belief. I've found one of the tastiest Thai restaurants ever in Jersey City, 'More'. I enjoy walking along the Hudson River, I love Liberty State Park. I point out to everyone I know that the Statue of Liberty is actually located in Jersey City.

So thank you good people of New Jersey and specifically Jersey City, you've made us feel welcome and shown us a pretty good time. Yes, the government needs work but then again, after coming from just outside of Detroit and watching the Kwame Kilpatrick debacle, hope remains here for us to clean it up together.

Tomorrow I feel like I really become one of you, after 46 years as a Michigander, tomorrow I'll fly my Garden State and yes BLUE Jersey flags proudly.

P.S. I still hope my Red Wings crush the Devils when they play. SOME things won't change ;)

You can find me and yell at me here:
http://jerseycitydesk.blogspot...

Best to all my New Jersey neighbors!
Johnny

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Congrats (4.00 / 2)
on the property purchase and best of luck. Glad you found us here at Blue Jersey too.

welcome (4.00 / 1)
I've bookmarked your blog.  New Jersey gets a bad rap but it's really a great place.

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Welcome Johnny Action Space Punk!!! (0.00 / 0)
(gotta love that moniker!  :-)

You make the best case possible for New Jersey!   Despite having some of the crappiest pols in the nation, we truly do also have some of the best people!   The more Light we all shed on the state the better!

 


Hey, Michigander (0.00 / 0)
Me too.

I spent whole chunks of my years in the knuckle part of the thumb part of the mitten. i love Michigan. Bloomfield Hills, and Huntington Woods, for me, with a stint in Ann Arbor at U. of M. (oh how I hate Ohio State).

Literally everyone I know who lives in JC loves JC, so good luck on the new real estate fun. And welcome to Blue Jersey, glad to have you here.  

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  


Thanks for the welcome everyone! (4.00 / 1)
As soon as I get settled there is going to be work to do to somehow, someway to beat Chunky McDonuts in the Governor's race. Corzine is a very flawed candidate but on pocketbook issues that matter he's far and away the better choice.

I keep my blog pretty straight up the middle as folly is folly no matter who commits it (and it makes for better blogging critiques) but my personal time, effort and MONEY will always go to the BLUE candidate. I volunteered for Jennifer Granholm's campaign twice in Michigan and worked door to door for Al Gore in 2000. While my blog may be purple, I'm blue as blue gets.


Remember, remember the 5th of November. The gunpowder, treason, and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.


come visit us down south, too (0.00 / 0)
Colllingswood, Lambertville, Cape May all await you!!!!

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Welcome "Home" :) (0.00 / 0)
We are definitely glad to have you here.  Jersey City has seen a lot of political craziness for sure over the years, but the Walkway is a lovely reminder what the folks of JC can do when they get riled up about crime and corruption.  They had to fight the waterfront corruption to get that walkway, and Governor Brendon Byrne went a long way to help them make it a reality.  Jersey City folks were the ones who took the frightened and injured in on September 11 when the ferries and tugboats brought them over from lower Manhattan that day. I have a lot of respect for my friends from JC.  

One Vote.  Yours.  It really does matter.

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