Posted on 11/06/2023 11:20:09 AM PST by DallasBiff
Although there’s no shortage of things to do or sights to see in this American melting pot, living in New York City isn’t always as glamorous as it sounds.
Why do people love NYC?
Yes, New York is expensive. Yes, it can be challenging to find affordable housing. Yes, some elements of city life are difficult.
But those challenges pale in comparison to the benefits.
In New York, you can meet new people every day. You can discover new places to eat, drink and shop. You can explore your creativity.
Writing your novel, designing your website, building a business—it all feels attainable here.
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If I won a billion in the lottery one of the first thing I’d do is buy a small coop or condo on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (near Central Park) as a place in which I could spend an occasional weekend. I’d spend less that a million...and the place I’d buy wouldn’t be much more than 500 square feet.I would *no* move there.
If I had to explain it, you wouldn’t get it.
Only two kinds of people: New Yorkers and Out of Towners.
I’ve never understood why anyone would like NYC.
NYC? No thanks!
Many people from NYC I met, outside the city on business, are completely arrogant asses. They think NYC is the center of the universe and they don't hesitate to tell you that.
I thought that Rochester went to $hit because of Kodak.
At least that was my experience with NYC.
“You can meet new people every day — who all have exactly the same post-modern, woke outlook and opinions.”
People in New York and New England think they are so open minded and well informed. I remember asking them where they have traveled in the US and many had never been outside New England and Florida. They talk about their fabulous schools. They were all group think.
I remember attending dinners with couples with pre-teens and their whole focus was getting their kids in enough activities so they could get their kids in a good college. They themselves talked about where they went to college and what other classmates were doing. It was like being on another planet.
Back then, the museums, theatres, opera, concerts of ALL kinds, shopping for anything and everything couldn't be beat, most of the restaurants were outstanding and VERY diversified, the historical sites wonderful/even awe inspiring, beautiful parks and zoos, skating in Rockefeller Center, golf courses, and most areas were NOT dangerous.
Sure, it wasn't for everyone's taste or pocketbook, but Rush could afford the best of the best and NEVER took advantage of what was there.
NOW? Now is quite a different story and though it is not only my "hometown", has many places/things connected to/with generations of my family, many old happy memories for me, I would go there if I was paid to, nor if someone put a gun to my head.
Exactly so and Chicago NEVER was on par with Manhattan, but it was very nice...long ago.
“I’ve seen more diversity of opinion and openness to different ideas in Islamic schools in Egypt than one sees among NY City hipsters.”
OH SNAP!!
You know WHO is/are VERY RUDE, in NYC?
TOURISTS and those who just moved there and that has more or less always been the case!
other than the bars stay open late and there’s more of them
there’s none in NYC anymore worth living there for
and i can get a better, farm fresh, steak at 1/2 the price than anywhere in the city, so...
oh yeah, there’s nothing worth your life in NYC, nothing
If you hate people, New York City is a great place to get lost in a crowd of strangers. You can avoid all of them. You'll never have to meet someone twice. You don't even make eye contact with them.
You don't have to be a part of an actual culture. The city is hostile to raising children. No families - no culture. Instead, you can window shop and pick what you like from a facsimile of actual cultures and smugly tell yourself to tourists and those in "flyover country" that you're cultured. You can ignore the garbage, the urine, and the physical graffiti. It's the Capitol of Cognitive Dissonance.
New York City is a great place for someone who needs to blame others for their own failures, lest their core be shattered. NO ONE will hold you accountable for anything.
If you hate yourself, New York City is a great place to blend in with others who hate themselves too... and do they hate themselves. They'll think nothing of dragging you down with them. How dare you step outside their misery?
New York City is a great place to meet so many other Toddlers With Adult Bodies (TWABs). It's Never Never Land and you can remain a perpetual toddler. You can backslide into Leftism which is institutionalized there. You'll never have to take the red pill.
You can live a parasitic to semi-parasitic lifestyle where someone else will think for you, do for you, emote for you, often at a very expensive price paid for by others against their will.
You can spend your days in a fully artificial reality, surrounded by those who parrot what their television tells them. New York City is a man-made institution, a machine, largely purposed to avoiding truths.
There's a reason why television and stage are centered in New York City; it's a collection of wannabe actors, some unaware of this desire, who desperately want someone else to think for them.
"Everybody, everybody everywhere has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don't know that is what they're trapped by, their little script." - Tom Wolfe
The denizens of New York City don't want to know.
10 years to decide you like it? Yep it sounds real good.
God Bless Texas.
One of the biggest “cons” to living in NYC is that it hosts a very transient population. I remember reading an article commemorating the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and one of the things it pointed out was the astonishing portion of the city’s population (maybe 40% or more) that had moved there since 9/11.
Exactly. I went to visit a friend of mine in NYC back in the early 90’s. We went out at night and the energy of everyone walking around us was palpable - just so much excitement! It was safe and fun and we had an absolute blast - I don’t remember seeing crime, trash or homelessness nor were we bothered by panhandlers.
Democrats destroy everything on this earth that they touch.
With the exception of one family member and one close friend of the family, we have removed all democrats from our lives. And even they know they suck.
There is NO AMERICAN “MELTING POT” ANYMORE. America is now the septic tank to the world. All the world’s sewage floats over the Rio Grande into America.
From the flood of immigrants in the 1840, 1880s, through the early 20th ce3ntury onwards, that's been the case. Now...it's a LOT of the the damned ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS!
Unlike other Major cites in the USA, NYC is composed of 5 different boroughs, all of which have their own peculiarities/flavors...both good and bad and ever changing!
A brief history of Manhattan neighborhoods from the late 1800s onwards.....
Harlem was settled by whites. At one time, it was all/mostly white and upper middle to upper classes living there. That changed around 1920 or so. Harry Houdini lived there, when it was almost all white, BTW.
The upper west side, was mostly farm land and then The Dakota was built and the upper class moved there and over the decades, also to Riverside Drive and the surrounding areas.
The upper East side was once mostly Irish, in parts, lower class and gansters; though a bit lower down was mostly German, Hungarian, Austrian upper middle to upper class. then it became WASPY as well as just out of college "hip" in the mid 1060s and has changed once again.
The upper West side had Rockefellers and that bunch, but they then went off to Fifth Avenue, apartments or vast mansions.
It has ALWAYS been an ever changing part of NYC.
The East Village ( Greenwich Village ) was a SLUM until the and of the last century/the beginning of this one and the West Village was both "artsy"/sometime radical, but also attracted the well to do.
Then there is THE BOWERY, which was once farm land, then a slum/dive for crooks, thieves, gangsters, and bums. That's beginning to change yet again.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg in ONLY one of the boroughs. Blanket statements just do NOT fit/hold true for NYC!
Imoved there 50 years ago.......it was a DIRTY cockroach infested city back then....I moved back to Cincy 4 days later!
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