I can get away with Jersey jokes to Amy or in her presence, so....

Oh, yeah. I mean, Pittsburgh people, suck it up. We over east of you put up with way worse.

I grew up in a nice part of the state, though, yes. There are kind of two armpits, around Camden and Newark/Elizabeth, I guess. And a giant wet spot kind of in the middle of the southern part. I'm not going to try to characterize that. :P