my god you people are ignorant.
Thats like saying all of california is like disney land, all of minnesota lives on a farm, or everyone in alabama is a backwards hick.
Seriously, every place has their down side and their upside. I'm sure you would even find Iowa to be a great place if you spent some time there seeing the things that makes it nice.
I hate guns, I am definitely not a republican, I can't stand country music, but guess what, I can still appreciate Texas and find plenty of things I like about it.
I'm sorry you went to a dirty place in NJ, but every state has at least one dirty place.
If you dislike the countryside and cant appreciate the landscaping, thats one thing, but to disrespect the people as a whole is totally ethnocentric.