I never said that living there is great, and I certainly don't like a lot of the rough parts of the state, but I would go fly fishing for trout on the South Branch of the Raritan River near Califon any chance I could get, and I can think of more than a couple dozen restaurants between Morristown, Basking Ridge, Somerville, Somerset, and the Brunswicks where I'd love to go for some meals. Ocean Grove, NJ, is one of the most family-friendly beaches that I've ever visited. It's a bucket list item for me to someday hit the northern beaches during the striped bass blitz. There's hardly a road in Hunterdon County that isn't beautiful and scenic. I met my wife working at a beautiful day camp in Liberty Corner, NJ, which has a pretty little stream cutting through it with frequent man-made dams that form small lakes that are loaded with largemouth bass, bluegills, and catfish. Tubing down the Delaware River is about as beautiful a day as a family can spend anywhere, and it costs only a few bucks. By the way everything that I just mentioned would start just north of the stadium and continues all the way up past Morristown, so you never saw any of it.
Other than that, though, yeah ... it's just a hell hole with nothing to do.
P.S.--My in-laws moved to VA from NJ after they retired so as to save on taxes. NJ is one of the worst states in America as far as tax levels. Like I already said, I wouldn't want to live there. I could spend about a month there every summer though and likely never grow tired of it.