27 Things People From North Jersey Have To Explain To Out-Of-Towners
I love New Jersey!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 🙂
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 […]
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.
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 […]
