I have no pity, for anyone dumb enough to see anything worthwhile, in any portion of the NYC lifestyle! As far as I’m concerned the next $24.00 bid is final!
I’ve been in NYC numerous times for numerous reasons, from visiting friends who live there to checking out colleges in the area. I’m convinced that it’s not a bad place to live and go to school or get a job (there’s one college in NYC that I looked at that’s way ahead of the competition anywhere else in the country) and from that point of view it’s not substantially different form any other city in America. But, I also think that if you move there for the ‘culture’ or ‘the experience’ like this lady did, you’re a complete idiot. You can find a job and a nice place to live (probably for a quarter of the price) somewhere up on the Hudson or out on Long Island and take the train in on the weekends if you just want to be able to go and ‘experience the culture’.