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I’m a Jersey girl, born and raised. I have lived in New Jersey for my whole life except for a period of two miserable years spent in New Hampshire. I live in Brick Township, which is in Ocean County, NJ. The county is the second largest in the state. My home is about an hour south of New York City NY , an hour east of Philadelphia PA and less than an hour away from Atlantic City.

Brick Township has a total area of approximately 32 miles . A little more than 18% of that is water. Brick has the second largest population in the county after Toms River, which is the next town over.

In 2003 and 2004, Brick was ranked as the second safest city in the US. In 2005, Brick was ranked the fifth safest city in the US. In 2006 Brick was awarded the title of America’s Safest City out of 371 cities nationwide in the13th annual Morgan Quitno survey. City was defined as having a population over 75,000.