[Clemenza]

New York is actually nicer than when I was a kid in the 1980s. Since Real Estate in Manhattan is unaffordable, gentrification has spread to parts of Brooklyn. There are now fifth floor studio walk-ups on the Lower East Side that go for $1,500 a month.

New York's politics may suck, but I would take it over some hell hole like Cleveland or Indianapolis any day of the week. You guys in Middle America can drive to your Wal-Marts and McMalls, while New Yorkers have some of the best independent shopping in the world. In my eyes, if it weren't for the taxes, regulation and gun control, it would be the closest thing to heaven for me.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #52

I have to say you are a close fit of New Yorker I ran into. People who want to hold a teach-in about NYC :). Many New Yorkers turns New York into a religious object, zealously worship and defend it. That is too much cultish for me. NYC may be a nice city or not. But if there are too many zealots inside, that fails my test :).

[Elsie]

New York's politics may suck, but I would take it over some hell hole like Cleveland or Indianapolis any day of the week.

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I sure HOPE you have you tongue in your cheek!

[ecomcon]

if it weren't for the taxes, regulation and gun control, it would be the closest thing to heaven for me.

Good God A'mighty. Say what?