Posted on 10/19/2012 5:15:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The ultimate Big Apple life would have New Yorkers raising kids on Staten Island, doing retail therapy in Manhattan and picking up groceries in Brooklyn.
A poll of Gotham dwellers released yesterday found that 84 percent of New Yorkers said they were “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with city life, matching the same 84 percent number from the 2011 and 2010 surveys.
But this New York love story takes a wild turn, based on borough of residence.
For example, 89 percent of Staten Islanders said they “strongly agreed” or “agreed” that their neighborhood would be good to raise kids, topping Queens (83 percent), Brooklyn (76), Manhattan (68) and The Bronx (67).
Manhattan respondents, though, were the most happy with shop-till-you-drop options.
That’s because 71 percent said they had “excellent” or “good” retail options, outpacing Brooklyn (67), Staten Island (66), The Bronx (57) and Queens (55).
Brooklyn appeared to be the best borough to score groceries, with 75 percent saying they had “excellent” or “good” access to markets and grocery stores.
Staten Island (73 percent), The Bronx (70), Manhattan (69) and Queens (68) followed.
Even an esoteric measure like optimism about the city’s future varied greatly by borough.
As a whole, 81 percent of New Yorkers said they were “optimistic” or “very optimistic” about the future of Gotham, up slightly from 76 percent in last year’s survey.
Residents of Manhattan had the most optimistic view of life, at 87 percent, followed by Brooklyn (85), Queens (80), The Bronx (75) and Staten Island (69).
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Birds of a feather flock together
8 million people in the city, you were there for one weekend and you can speak of the “average New Yorker.”
I LOVE FR
“LOL thats ok they can stay there if they want i ive in the boondocks and i’m just fine with never visiting a city ANY city for that matter !”
Look up “Heimo Korth” on YouTube and watch the vid. You’ll love it.
84% of New Yorkers are psychotic too!
He also mentioned something else to me (but without explanation). He said that Phoenix is actually larger in area than the city of Los Angeles some years depending on the annexing of communities from year to year. But what he said that was interesting was that despite how large Phoenix is, from one corner to the city to the other everybody speaks the same dialect whereas in New York City (which is not spread out as much) there are sections of the city which has its own dialects and accents such as Brooklyn, Queeens...etc.
I have an idea why but I never mentioned it to him.
Also, when I said I love NYC I only mean to visit. I would never want to live there. Way too busy for me. One hour there seems like 24 hours because everything just happens to fast.
By the way, I’m trying to remember the name of the show where local High School students would compete with each other on local TV channels with academia questions. Anybody remember the name of that show? I remember they used to wear their graduation hats during the program. Anybody? I’m trying to remember the name.
“The country’s full of New Yorkers that weren’t.”
That’s right; it should say “84% of remaining New Yorkers”...
“A poll of Gotham dwellers released yesterday found that 84 percent of New Yorkers said they were “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with city life...”
What did you expect? Toilets attract turds...
It ain't nothin' but a concrete jungle with people packed like sardines Where everybody's tryin' to live beyond their means Where all the natives hurry and scurry too and fro And like a fleas on a puppy dog they got no place to go I wouldn't live in New York City if they gave me the whole dang town Talk about a bummer it's the biggest one around Sodom and Gommorah was tame to what I found I wouldn't live in New York City if they gave me the whole dang town Well I ain't seen the sunshine since the day that I arrived Cause brother I've been busy a tryin' to survive Nobody knows you've been here till you're six feet under ground Than you become a statistic if they remember to write you down
...and how many of them (especially in Manhattan) aren't from NY, but somewhere else in the US? ;)
The US? I go there as infrequently as possible, and every time it seems there are less and less Americans there.
It is like a modern version of the Tower of Babel; I guess that is what happens when the mayor declares it a “sanctuary city”.
Time to return it to Holland...
I was stationed there for a short period in 1967, the women were willing and the food was good, but I volunteered for another tour in VN to get the hell out of the place.
Give it back to the native tribes.
As I said, I'm living in WV for a little over ten years, but no way would I make any such blanket statements about West Virginians as you and others, with far less experience, have made about NYC.
Does just living in New York qualify? Gotta be fairly close. Should garner a person some dispensation.
Frankly, I've got nothing against New York, but I've never heard a group of people in my life sound more like they needed to convince themselves what a swell place they lived in.
These days, if your home is nice, you just shut up about it. Not New Yackers. Start spreadin' the manure news...
Gag me!
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Woody Allen once traveled to Washington to testify at some kind of Congressional hearing related to the movie industry (it may have been a legislative issue regarding copyright protection for black & white movies). According to the article I read, it was the first time he had left New York City in years.
NYC is a great place, but few Manhattanites would dream of raising their kids on Staten Island.
I think most of the leaders in “sanctuary cities” know that only this designation will save them from becoming ghost towns. When taxpaying Americans flee these places, they either accommodate illegals or go the way of Detroit. Any “sanctuary city” should be treated in the same manner as other countries’ embassies; they are no longer US soil.
Look at how many people killed in the WTC didn’t even live in NYC; a lot of them were from NJ and CT.
Texans talk up Texas even more than new york residents from my experience.
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