For those of you who think that North Jersey Stinks...

[TZ]

Let me say that the area outside St.Paul Minnesota is JUST AS BAD!! Ack! Lovely sulfer/rotten eggs stink... Meanwhile I am on my hotel balcony in Bloomington.. Which overlooks an INDOOR water park - I've never stayed in a hotel like this..BB your kids would love this place I think . I took some pics that I'll post later... I 'd hate to be in this room during the weekend ..I bet it would be soooo loud!:crazy:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. So does that make N. Jersey smell better?

S.W. Detroit has some nice aromas from a refinery. The mid-town area enjoys a daily pre-dawn release of aromas from a garbage incinerator. Mmmmmm.

None of which helps parts of NJ.

Anyway, of course MN would have an indoor water park. The outdoor parks have a one-month season before they re-freeze.

Are you getting time to play in the water park?

:hi:

[TZ]

13. I wish I could play

There is one of those lazy river things down there that I would LOVE to try but alas it's not to be. I knew there was an indoor water park around here... I just didn't realize it was so integrated with the hotel. It's very cool

[Pierre.Suave]

24. I know that Hotel...

I think you should go slide down the water slide that comes snaking around OUTSIDE the building...

:P

[TZ]

28. you have no idea how much I would love that

I LOVE water parks/swimming etc..it's kinds torture to see that out my window on not be able to go play...:cry:

[DS1]

2. The only thing Minnesota smells like is plastic wrap and mosquitoes

[Pierre.Suave]

3. Says the person that has probably never even been here...

It smells great here.

[DS1]

12. I've had the unfortunate visits

Nothing but flat roads and big box stores, oh and that giant mall with only one Hooters in it.

[TZ]

15. Aw but dude

I'm guessing you missed the place off the highway with a large sign that said DANCERS and whose name was actually "class act" :crazy:

[DS1]

18. Truckers welcome! This week's featured Dancer: Brandi!

[Pierre.Suave]

17. Then you missed all the good parts

Obviously. The flat roads and big box stores are but a very tiny part of the whole of MN.

[Left Is Write]

57. Absolutely.

[Pierre.Suave]

65. I knew you would have my back!

:hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. Very few parts of North Jersey stink

[Pierre.Suave]

5. and at the same time

very few parts of MN stink. There is also a paper plant in Duluth that you can smell from a mile or so away depending on wind direction...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Hackettstown, NJ smells like chocolate if the wind is blowing the right way

Mars has a factory there.

[Pierre.Suave]

9. Is that where they grow the martians?

:rofl:

























Kidding of course, I bet that smells nice.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. That and the coffee shop across the street are the only good things about that town

It's a pretty town, but racist as hell.

[Ohio Joe]

53. Hey now!

My mom is another good thing there!

[carlyhippy]

10. wow, I would have to buy a home downwind

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

43. The downside is Hackettstown is really conservative

The upside is there's a good coffee shop called Greene's Beans and it's owned by a liberal.

[carlyhippy]

8. factories there that use sugar beets for sugar production can get a little smelly in fall

Carly

[carlyhippy]

6. I was looking at that hotel for a stay later this summer, is it any good?

do they offer breakfast, and do they have any good restaurants nearby?

[TZ]

21. It's a beautiful hotel

And it's literally accross the street from Mall of America ..so oodles of places to eat!

[carlyhippy]

22. good, it is on my short list, thanks

[KamaAina]

14. Could that be near where Norm lives?

:evilgrin:

[Patiod]

16. OT: they do have ONE really good restaurant out there

Minneapolis/St Paul has lots, but the 'burbs are sadly lacking, with the exception of Ciao Bella, 3510 Minnesota Drive.

Great service, excellent food, and very warm and cozy in the winter, too.

Otherwise Bloomington is a food wasteland.

[Pierre.Suave]

19. exactly

Bloomington is anywhere USA suburbia...

Sadly...

[Lucian]

20. You should come out to the country in Minnesota.

Where it smells like rendering plant when the north wind blows.

:puke:

[TZ]

23. Thanks but no..

:rofl: it was just memorable because I had my windows closed and it still smelled..pretty close to the Northern Garden State Parkway. Petro chemicals I think

[Pierre.Suave]

27. Thats not fair...

Northern MN is beautiful, one of the most beautiful places on earth.

[fizzgig]

32. if the wind is just right

i can catch the feed lots and rendering plants to the east of us :puke:

[madinmaryland]

25. How many toll booths does Minnesota have??

[Pierre.Suave]

26. None

but we have a lottery system for safely crossing bridges...

Do you feel lucky?

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

34. Did they finally condemn that one toll bridge from Inver Grove Hts to St Paul Park?

[TZ]

29. Trust you to ask the REALLY

Important questions! :rofl:

[madinmaryland]

56. Damn Straight!

:rofl:

[KamaAina]

39. They used to have 44, but now they're down to 6

:P

[Pierre.Suave]

42. and where are these 6 toll booths?

[KamaAina]

46. You tell me, Norm. After all, it's YOUR state.

:P

[Pierre.Suave]

64. There are no tollbooths in MN

I have lived here my entire life, never seen a single one.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

30. New Jersey doesn't actually stink more than usual....

....it's just that its so dreadfully depressing there. At least from my travels to Monmouth County.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

36. It's much prettier up where I live

[BeachBaby]

37. My Pop (grandfather) lived in Long Branch, Monmouth County.

I don't remember anything depressing about it. :shrug:

There's a lot of pretty in Jersey. I'm in southwest Jersey - absolutely gorgeous, but VERY conservative. Ugh. I guess it's the price I have to pay for a good school system around here.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

38. Seriously, what is it with all the Freepers in Western NJ?

I blame PA.

[BeachBaby]

40. Wilmington, DE has quite the contingent of fundies.

So, they're just as much to blame as Pennsy. :scared:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

41. I, personally, disdain both places

Delaware because it costs like $8 to drive 20 minutes, and PA because it's...well...PA.

[BeachBaby]

47. LOL.

I like Philly - always did. Probably because of all the history, and the Rocky steps. :7

I grew up in Camden County - very liberal area. Moved to Gloucester County almost two years ago - my my my, what a difference a county makes. And not in a good way. :scared:

But the good outweighs the bad - my boys are being challenged in school, which is always good; it's a very rural setting, so I don't have neighbors breathing down my neck; and because I'm right on the outskirts of Salem County (the first sign you see when I get on the main drag off my road is "You are now entering Salem County"), I do my shopping there and save on sales tax (Salem County is only 3%). :)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

49. It's weird by us

Everything is run by Republicans, but there's a bunch of lesbians.

I've never really been to Philly. Not enough to know anything about it. I have been to NYC a billion times, though.

[TommyO]

69. PA has some great amusement parks, in NJ we have Great Adventure

Not that GA isn't fun, but it doesn't hold a candle to Kennywood, Hersheypark, or Knoebels in Pennsylvania.

[tabbycat31]

that's not very far from me

in fact I was doing some errands in Long Branch today. I did a lot of campaign work there too in the fall, as well as a few debate and innaguration parties.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

71. Ah, it might be because I'm biased. An ex lived there.

And she was somewhat crazy, so perhaps I'm a bit jaded.

And maybe Long Branch is actually very nice. I'm only going off of Middletown and surrounding areas, and when I came to visit there all I found were congested roads and suburban sprawl and it just depressed the hell out of me as a place where I never, ever would want to live. Plus you were actually prohibited from making left hand turns, which just confused the hell out of me.

I have heard that Southern NJ is nice. Pine Barrens and such.

[tabbycat31]

54. monmouth county dosen't stink

[arbusto_baboso]

31. How 'bout the "Tacoma Aroma"????

Around the pulp mills it's pretty rank.

[TZ]

35. I smelled that once in Western Maryland

pretty bad...

[DU GrovelBot]

33. ## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ##

This week is our second quarter 2009 fund drive.
Donate and you'll be automatically entered into our daily contest.
New prizes daily!



No purchase or donation necessary. Void where prohibited. Click here for more information.

[rug]

44. How close is it to Eau de Bayonne?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

45. Eau de Secaucus is worse sometimes

[friendly_iconoclast]

62. True story re the Secaucus area

Drove on that stretch of Turnpike a few years back with a companion who had never been on that particular stretch
before. I lived in South Middlesex county as a kid (circa 1965-68) and knew it well

Her: OMG, what is that SMELL?
Me: Wow, they've really cleaned this place up since I was a kid!

Guess it depends on what you are used to...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

63. Yeah, I grew up really close to Secaucus

Actually, I was born in Secaucus, but I grew up in Union City, then we moved out to the wilderness of Morris County.

[Bossy Monkey]

48. I was going to say at least it isn't East Grand Forks, but apparently they've fixed it

http://www.kxmb.com/t/american-crystal-sugar/269037.asp
Passed through in '99 or so; thought the whole town was a stockyard. (They were rebuilding from the floods, but it had been a couple of years.)

[Eyerish]

51. When I lived up in that area that was the worst smell...

I will never forget the smell of processed sugar beets for as long as I live.:puke: I couldn't believe people would live down wind from that.

[old mark]

50. ...try Trenton instead.....nt

[latebloomer]

52. North Jersey smells much better than in the past

When I was a child there was a stretch of Route 17 where the factories gave off such noxious odors that you literally had to hold your breath.

Now they've probably built Chili's and Ponderosas on top of those sites.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

70. I don't think we have Ponderosas up here

But yeah, I can't remember there being parts of 17 where you have to hold your breath anymore.

[latebloomer]

72. Just googled it, and you're right

Closest one is in the Bronx.

However, I'm pretty sure there's an Outback there.

[flvegan]

55. Why limit stink to just North Jersey?

:hide:

[LostinVA]

58. North Jersey doesn't stink, except around the refineries -- a very small area

[Mike 03]

59. Is Plainfield in North Jersey? I was so young when I lived there that I can't remember, and I'm

too embarrassed to do "Google maps". It's so personal. I loved growing up there, but I was too young and therefore too dumb to know if it "stank" or not.

One of these days I want to go back there, visit, see my old house, etc...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

60. Central NJ

Central NJ doesn't really exist by the way.

[BeachBaby]

61. Sure there is.

We call it Red Bank.

[BattyDem]

66. Um ... PARTS of North Jersey stink.

The industrial areas, the swamps ... yes, they stink. But the rest of North Jersey doesn't smell any better or worse than anywhere else. When the wind is right, we smell like maple syrup ... just like NYC! :P

[krispos42]

67. There's a store in the MoA that specialized in rotten eggs

:rofl:


Although it's big enough to have one... :-)




No car emissions tests here, either. Although we do have an oil refinery... maybe that's what you smelled.



Lots of seagulls here, too.

[tilsammans]

68. Lilacs in bloom . . .

. . . that's what North Jersey smells like today. It's a beautiful thing. :)