oh, you don’t know chauvinism till you meet a Manhattanite. Those folks wouldn’t live anywhere else. They may have a condo in FL or a ranch in MT, but live there? You kidding?
There’s a laundry room in almost all the apartment buildings and they’re (mostly) fine with that ... they think the world (theatre, museums, shopping, concerts, fine dining, etc) is all in their back yard, a subway or taxi ride away. Taking an elevator to do laundry is no big deal.
Once through any museum is enough and by now all New Yorkers should have been through all the museums there at least once.
Washing your own socks and shorts and putting them through an extra time so they're warm and dry makes life worth living though. You'll want that at home where you know they haven't been putting the designer dog through the dryer.
“oh, you don’t know chauvinism till you meet a Manhattanite.,,,,,,,,, theatre, museums, shopping, concerts, fine dining, etc) is all in their back yard, a subway or taxi ride away.”
It’s called “cognitive dissonance”. They know the dirty truth is that they are generally living as wretches. They have no cars, no washing machines, live in apartments a person should feel ashamed of, have no privacy, and experience pervasive union corruption. They cannot landscape a yard, or sit outside in their jaccuzzi watching the stars.
Yes, they always prattle on about all they can do in Manhattan,, but never stop to realize why they always feel so compelled to explain how wonderful it really is there. They know they are living a poor quality of life,,so they loudly try to convince themselves that they are not.
It’s like a smoker telling you how much pleasure the cigarette gives them, waxing eloquently about the calm feeling it gives them to take a drag. But yes,, they know.