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in Culture shock, Homesick, Just for the hell of it, NJ, Places to go, USA
January 4, 2015

27 Things People From North Jersey Have To Explain To Out-Of-Towners

I love New Jersey!

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in NJ, Shopping
November 30, 2014

New Jersey Girl in an Australian World

I saw this picture somewhere ages ago but it didn’t have a link attached to it or any website credited to it.  I kept meaning to do a search for it but I always forgot to do it.  I was cleaning out my desktop and came across it and did a search.  I couldn’t find […]

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in Culture shock, History, Hmmm..., Just for the hell of it, New South Wales, NJ, Northern Territory, Queensland, Random Stuff, South Australia, Tasmania, USA, Victoria, Western Australia, What the...?
November 27, 2014

Geography

Not one of my strong suits and definitely not these people’s either. Australians try to label the American states – I think I would do poorly as well. Americans try to label Australian states – Until I moved here I would haven’t gotten any of it! My geography teacher didn’t teach much.  Shoot, I can’t even […]

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in Homesick, NJ, Places to go, USA, What the...?
August 6, 2013

Australian in America

I saw this article posted on Facebook and found it accurate and funny, except for the politics and guns.  Never in all my years there did I hear someone bring up politics with a total stranger or in random conversation.  I’ve encountered more people talking politics here than I ever had while living in the […]

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in Homesick, NJ, USA
June 25, 2013

NJ – not a bad place to live

According to this article, New Jersey ranked high for its education achievements and its strong family and community bonds.   Well, of course, I was born and raised in NJ     🙂

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in Culture shock, Food, Homesick, Just one of those days, NJ
May 26, 2013

Not quite alone but nearly

I came across a website where you can buy some Mexican food staples in Australia. While some of the items I was familiar with, it still wasn’t the same products I cooked with in NJ. I decided to do another search (one that I did countless of times when I first moved here): Puerto Rican […]

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in NJ
February 10, 2013

How to tell it’s February in NJ

Facebook gets bombarded with snow blizzard pictures and statuses are “OMG it’s snowing” as if it’s a surprise that one should get snow in NJ, in the winter, in the coldest month of the year.

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in Culture shock, Hmmm..., NJ
September 23, 2007

What I’ve learned about the US

Unlike my wife, I’m from a fairly small city in Australia (around 100,000 people), therefore I’ve found that life is a bit different in the US. Some of the differences that I’ve found are: Driving: Turn signals are entirely optional (and hardly ever used) Speed limits are also optional If you don’t start driving at […]

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