Point Pleasant, New Jersey is my hometown. It is a very popular summer vacation spot for people from all over the tri-state area. As a local, we refer to these people as "bennies" (tourists who visit the Jersey shore from Bayonne, Elizabeth, Newark, or New York (or anywhere near these places.) These tourists are notorious for polluting the beaches, causing traffic, and being rude to the locals).
LOCALS
"Beach kids always feel no pain, and when they do,
a case of corona can always cure that.
They move with the tide, and always have 'no worries'.
Beach kids at the Jersey Shore have always known
that life is just one big party at their hands."
-Asbury Park Press
Point Pleasant, NJ is famous for it's beaches, boardwalk, and nightlife!
UrbanDictionary.com defines Point Pleasant, NJ as...
"A small town on the New
Jersey shore, popular vacation spot for North Jersey tourists. Also referred to
as "Point" by surrounding towns' citizens. Split in two by a canal: there's
Point Pleasant Beach and Point Pleasant Boro. "Point Beach" is technically an
island, since the canal cut off its connection to the mainland. This side of
town boasts the beach, Jenkinson's Boardwalk, a train station, a "classic"
downtown area, and some very nice houses. "Boro", as it is locally referred to,
features a highway, multiple mini-malls, and the lower income families of Point
Pleasant. Also adjacent to Bricktown. Point Pleasant is famous for its winter
rental culture, where locals live cheaply in summer bungalows until the actual
summer, when quick money is made off of tourists and is stored up to live on
throughout the winter. Also known for locals never leaving the town; a rather
widespread and endemic underground drug scene; roughneck fishermen; and a large
population of artistic people, both musically and visually, who eventually leave
the town for California or "The City". Considered the "clean" version of Seaside
Heights. Longstanding rivalries in the high schools with neighboring Manasquan.
Also known for its high density of 7-11's - five in one town!
The town and its citizens were briefly embarassed by being associated with a
failed television show of the same name in 2004."