IF you ever left NY...
IF you ever left NY...
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- cannonball1978-2
Anywhere. NY grinds under the illusion that there is nothign inspiring or convenient or charmingly assholish about the outside world. It's simply not true.
- True, nothing like moving away from NYC and visiting again with new eyes to realise you might never want to move back.spl33nidoru
- I got last minute tickets to see the New York philharmonic play the score of ET and visited 6 major landmarks on my way home. Where else can you do that?monospaced
- London or Paris, unless it does have to be ETspl33nidoru
- exactly ... London, Paris, major cities ... not that many places can you do anything like that at allmonospaced
- In most places, the best you're gonna get is a local theater group and maybe a college level music program if you're lucky.monospaced
- That isn't true mono - I think you need to spend more time out of the city.fadein11
- I spent 25 years outside the city, in a dozen cities, in more than one country, so I have a pretty good idea of what's out there.monospaced
- And for the record. I'm over NYC and can't wait to move out to a suburb and have my quiet house and yard and dog and family. I'm not a city person at heart.monospaced
- lol @ score of ET... ffs you'll likely get that sort of shit anywhere. landmarks not so much, unless you count that large tree by that strange shaped rockhans_glib
- Again with the convenience thing. See what I mean?cannonball1978
- LOL @ score of ET? World-class symphony performing world-class music in a world-class venue is not possible in most places on the planet.monospaced
- Landmarks are a plenty too: Central Park, Rockefeller Center, Empire State Building, Times Square, Broadway, etc. Not sure what tree/rock you're talking about.monospaced
- And you can't visit ancient temples in NY! Go ahead! I fucking dare you to mention one ancient temple! NY... so inconvenient.cannonball1978
- over here in london the score of et is the sort of crowd-pleasing easy listening fluff that the b&t blue rinse brigade rush to whenever it's on in croydonhans_glib
- hahahamonospaced
- but i'm just yanking your chain so ignore me. ;)hans_glib
- https://res.cloudina…monospaced
- There are certain things a major city offers that you can't find anywhere, and the same can be said for other smaller places too. I'm not one-sided here.monospaced
- I was just using my example to show how, at the drop of a hat, out of pure boredom, this is the kind of thing I CAN do that isn't possible in a small town.monospaced
- And of course there are the perks of smaller cities and remote locations that can't be had anywhere else. I yearn for it.monospaced
- Those landmarks are great the first few times to see them but what makes a city is its soul and the community you become part of. And silly to presume lesserfadein11
- cities are cultural vacuums - far from it in my experience. Size isn't everything. But don't get me wrong I fucking love NYC and London but I prefer a balancefadein11
- between the city and countryside.fadein11