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20 Signs You Grew Up In Jackson, New Jersey

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20 Signs You Grew Up In Jackson, New Jersey

Jackson, New Jersey, is easily one of the most interesting places in the world. It's some weird combination of rural and suburban, with farms in some places and mini-mansions in another. Oh, and don't forget our amusement park. At 100 square miles, there's a lot of room for a lot of quirks that you just can't find anywhere else. If you grew up there, you'll definitely relate to the following:

1. You stopped at All Star Bagel to get a pork roll egg and cheese every morning before school.

2. You loved going to Six Flags a hundred times every summer.

3. Until you were old enough to start working there.
4. Even though it’s the fourth largest town in New Jersey, you still had to leave to find a mall, movie theater or restaurant.
5. And after driving all the way to Applebee’s, you still waited an hour to get half priced appetizers.
6. But you’re never more than five minutes away from a Wawa.

7. If you went to Memorial you were constantly mad at Liberty for having air conditioning. If you went to Liberty, you were constantly making fun of Memorial for not having air conditioning.


8. Your backyard is probably just a lot of woods.
9. There’s always a faint smell of weed in the air.
10. You aren’t even shocked when you see heroin needles on the side of the road.

11. The lights of the Hess station (AKA the sun) always woke you up at the end of your long drive home (and you were appalled when you saw it turned into a Speedway).

12. Your dad probably helped build the Jackson Jungle, and your name is probably somewhere on the fence.

13. You fell in the stream trying to walk from Memorial to Wawa.


14.You knew the St. Al’s Carnival was LIT.


15. The Jackson China Buffet was sent from heaven, and you begged your parents to take you there as often as possible (RIP).


16. You always had to park way too far away to go and watch anti-climactic fireworks at Johnson Park for the 4th of July.


17. You’ve gotten stuck behind a tractor on your way to school.


18. You were never afraid of loose tigers wandering around because of the Tiger Lady. You also felt terrible when her tigers got taken away.

19. You don’t understand why people from out of town get excited when they see deer because you see at least 10 a day.

20. You love to hate on Jackson, but you secretly wouldn't have wanted to grow up anywhere else.

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