Agree. They don’t even make eye contact.
We stayed with family, in the city, for extended visits for several years, not all that long ago.
Never witnessed anything like this fantasy article describes.
“Never witnessed anything like this ...”
As far as seats on the subway, I did.
Visiting Russia. (2007)
omg.
It is almost a joke! I think the writer is gunning for a job to write a book on an imaginary Stepford city.
I was waiting for the ‘my children were invited to pick blueberries in the neighbor’s back yard so she could bake them blueberry muffins to bring home for our breakfast while we cooked eggs that we got from their hens’ nests that were freshly laid’.
And where was the old grandfather figure sitting in his rocking chair on his front porch with a pocket full of Werther’s caramels to give to her children, as he rocked gently back in forth in his cardigan while they regaled him with stories of how school was while they walked home?
It is possible on Staten Island. (The part about nice old ladies.) But the photos don’t look like SI to me.