Yeah, it's colder there. I think there's a real break in the climate belt that goes through north Jersey, and south Jersey is very much part of the Delmarva peninsula area and Chesapeake basin system that goes down to coastal VA.

I lived in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, so central--I came for grad school, got an MA in folklore, then stayed on a while, before coming up here. But I did a lot of driving into the mountains for research and loved going out to the Outerbanks and Ocracoke, and south to Wilmington. The accents in Manteo are so fascinating--how you can hear the bridge between a British-Scotch-Irish and southern accents. (-: