Dumpster Sidewalks

Jersey...ers (?) must think they are New Yorkers (See? That one DOES sound right) with an accent. This, they might think, gives them the right to behave the same way New Yorkers do, even though this city does not have the corresponding infrastructure. One more reason why Jersey sucks.

As an example, the streets in Jersey are as dirty as a pigsty, so you walking there makes you feel like you missed the street fair and all you can see on the floor is just the remains. People don't care if the trashcan is totally full and over the brim, they pile things up and don't care if it falls. Then they complain about the rest of the country calling Jersey "New York's dumpster". They could try a bit harder (i.e. they could try) and keep it clean, neat and tidy, though we all know that by the end of the day, it's still Jersey, right?

The Harborside

The Harborside is a very long complex near the Hudson riverside, a few steps away from the Exchange Place PATH station. It's just a long hallway with many shops all along, where to find the most convenient things you might want to get on your workday. There's a CVS pharmacy (good), a couple restaurants (good), a Bank of America branch (good, if you are a Bank of America customer), and tons of useless shops nobody gets into. Ever.

Even better, there's a pretty big food court. Now, I hate food courts as much as I hate malls, but you gotta admit they're convenient in some cases, especially when you're stuck in a city that sucks as much as Jersey City. When you say "food court" you expect to find "a place where many different choices of food can be found, enough for you to find at least a couple you'll like". Not in Jersey, though. The best thing you'll ever get is a salad, and that's only if you get lucky. Other than that, there's bad, overcooked, dry Italian food; bad, tasteless, oily Asian food; bad, tasteless hamburgers; bad, tasteless desserts; and a surprisingly large amount of people waiting in line to get some of these.

And of course, it's all tainted with those amazingly achieved brown and beige colors. You know, those colors you always wanted to be surrounded with, and all with some details in petrol green to make it feel even more lively. Add some fluorescent lights, and you're in food court Heaven. All in all, get the hell out of here as fast as you can, before you start thinking about getting some Prozac at that CVS pharmacy conveniently close by.

Exchange Place PATH Station

The PATH sucks. For starters, it is one of the main entry points to Jersey City, which sucks. Also, it's always dirty, slow and it has no trash cans in any stations. Its passengers have no idea how to use stairs in any kind of civilized manner, or probably they don't care, because the PATH sucks. PATH is an acronym for Port Authority Trans-Hudson, which shows you how hard they struggled for a pronounceable acronym. They could have just called it PAT for Port Authority Train and it would be less PATHetic. As the rest of Jersey, it's stuck in the early 90s, so beware of: the color brown, the color grey and neon lights. Sure, this station might have looked futuristic 20 years ago, but it's too late now. All the glory is gone (if there ever was any).