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North Jersey is an informal and indefinite name for the northern or northeastern part of (which North Jersey locals refer to as "The City") and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (which South Jersey locals refer to as "The City"). Dr. Franklin described New Jersey as "a barrel with a bung at both ends," and things haven't changed much since. ''North Jersey'' is theoretically the area within the New York City sphere of influence. Some people define North Jersey as all points in New Jersey north of a line extending from Interstate 195 . Although recently the region has shifted below I-195, down along the Jersey Shore , due to the large numbers of people from New York City and North Jersey that have moved down there trying to find affordable housing. A more accurate approximation for North Jersey is now sometimes considered to be anything north of a straight line connecting the cities of Trenton and Toms River , thus including the more urban and populated parts of Ocean County in the North Jersey area. Just a few decades ago, Ocean County, along with Monmouth, Hunterdon, Sussex, Warren, Morris, and Mercer counties contained only a fraction of the population and sprawl that they currently have. Traditionally, these counties were vacation areas and farmland. The western counties included woods and mountains that the urban population used for activities such as camping and skiing. Ocean and Monmouth counties were generally open land, beach, and shore area that northerners used only as places for summer homes. Presently, however, more and more people are choosing to permanently live in these once-rural counties in order to escape the even more urban New York City border counties, such as Essex and Bergen, which has led to their rapid urbanization in recent decades. Before the migration of people from New Jersey's most urban counties to the more rural ones, only the most urban counties, nearest to New York City, were considered "North Jersey": Hudson, Essex, Union, Bergen, and Passaic, although geographically this was really only "northeastern New Jersey". Most North Jersey residents are extremely proud of their part of the state. They consider it to be the "real" Jersey, and the region itself has a common set of activities or characteristics shared by most of the younger (teenager and young adult) members of the population, i.e. late-night diner hang-outs, "woods parties" in which a party is held in a secluded area of the woods, with a bonfire and lots of beer, and Weird New Jersey tours, guided by the magazine of the same name. The historic province of East Jersey in roughly the same area as the contemporary North Jersey. ''See also:'' Jersey NORTH JERSEY COUNTIES
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