Hoboken and Jersey City have plenty of great places to eat, but once you get out to Paramus, or Edison, or Rutherford, or Paterson, there aren't a lot of good places to eat other than chains, diners, fast food places and an occasional good restaurant (usually Italian or pseudo-French but in actuality Italian). Also, probably everyone making statements like the one you quoted are doing so by comparing suburban New Jersey to New York City, not to, say, Cedar Rapids, Iowa or Peoria, Illinois. Context is everything.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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