I’m gonna make this quick this time because i’ve seen this silliness before.
Got lost a few weeks ago in Brooklyn. Had broken phone and thought i could actually find a hard to locate place in Brooklyn.
I got lost Forever.
Had to ask no less than 10 to 15!! people for help.
In brooklyn, in Terrible neighborhoods, and to my embarrassment, in Manhattan in good neighborhoods.
YES I ended up in Manhattan on the way home to Staten Island! :)
So maybe with those people, I asked 20 altogether.
What a NICE group of people who got their cell phones out and wrote directions and took their time.
While busy with work or going on their way to work or just going home.
Black dudes who looked like gang members, white dudes who looked like self centered businessman.
Women who looked like they wouldn’t trust a guy for one second in this cold, hard city.
ALL of them were great to me.
So before folks start beating their chests about how friendly their neck of the woods are, VISIT and EXPERIENCE a place before you decide on something like this.
It’s AMAZING how so many here WANT to believe that’s what liberal cities are like.
Their politics SUCKS, I’m SURE, all the people that helped me.
Their humanity was a lot better.
Same
I was in Manhattan this past weekend. 100% agree with your assessment. People could not have been nicer. The hotel, Central Park, Hell’s Kitchen, the Theater District, Rockefeller Center - everyone was great. In front of Trump Tower, there were a couple of protesters, but there were also pedestrians telling them off and defending the President!
Even if you know your way around, it’s almost impossible when the city is running in “construction everywhere” mode and projects never seem to complete.
I have family in NY so only go once in awhile. It seemed to me the only time traffic was not in “construction everywhere” mode was when Giuliani was mayor. Since I don’t live there, I don’t know if that was just a coincidence. All I know is that there was no unusual backup at that time.
Since you do live there, would you agree that Giuliani was the only mayor in recent history where the never ending construction projects actually completed?
My mother, a Brooklyn native long resident in Florida, had a series of positive experiences on recent visits back to NYC. Relatives attribute the city’s change in temperament to a booming economy and the renewed sense of pride and common identity that the 9/11 attack prompted. A retired New York cop friend thinks that angelic intervention on my mother’s behalf is a more likely explanation for kind treatment of her by New Yorkers.
Don’t doubt your assessment of the niceness of NYC natives (a former one myself) but it took 20 people’s for you to find your way home?
Agreed. Spent a lot of time in NYC during my last job. People were always great. I think SF people are rude and LA people are fake (generally speaking). Never liked either place.