Vicious! Eleven cities that suck the most in South Jersey

This is absolutely vicious.

First, let me say that I have lived in South Jersey all my life. I grew up in Collings Lakes, moved to Williamstown when I was four, and went to high school in Haddon Township (Paul VI eagle!), and now live on the waterfront having worked in the Atlantic City area for nearly 25 years. With that in mind, it pains me to write this.

And first of all: That is not my list of eleven cities that suck Grab a hoagie and let me explain.

I was scouring the internet the other day and stumbled upon it a recent article by Money Inc. listing the worst places to live in New Jersey.

Without reading the article, and just reading the heading, you may immediately have thought of a few towns in the Garden State that, like me, would automatically be on this list. You know, the usual suspects: Newark, Camden, Trenton. These cities are easy to beat up for their problems.

Then I read what they wrote.

Sure, these big cities exist, but so are many small towns in South Jersey. If you think your sleepy little town couldn’t possibly be on this list, think again. I mean, it includes some places that you would never associate with a terrible place to live.

And their descriptions are somewhere between wild and vicious.

For starters they say

New Jersey has lots of great things to offer. But nowhere is completely immune to trouble, New Jersey included. There is a hot spot for every exclusive, glittering beach community. In some of New Jersey’s less healthy travel destinations, unemployment and poverty rates are skyrocketing, while crime, drug trafficking, and other nefarious activities get worse every day.

At the top of the list is Newark, but there’s a South Jersey city right behind it – and it’s not Camden.

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