NY = Unhappiest City
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- monospaced0
Executive privilege? Catch up to what? I know you're feeling jaded, but what you're saying simply doesn't apply to everyone you've lumped in there.
Anyway, why the fuck am I defending NYC? I'm not from here, I've only lived here 6 years. Is it better than San Francisco...yeah, to me it is, I'm happier here than I've ever been.
Happier than ever but New York has taught me to never be satisfied. Maybe that's what this city's all about... it's a place for people who aren't satisfied, who are always hungry for more, regardless of what they have. It's a city of ambition, from what I can see.
Sorry for the rant. Also having one of those mornings. I hate the muggy summers on this coast.
- Fair enoughcannonball1978
- I hear you though. It's a rough place... I'm from a smaller beautiful green city that's connected to nature.monospaced
- YOU MAD?utopian
- :D)utopian
- Never satisfied? Nice life.freedom
- Can one be happy and unsatisfied at the same time? By hunger you mean mice in a maze?yurimon
- I think the unsaticiefide thing relates to material facts that your rent is going to go up. and if you want to go out n eatyurimon
- its going to be expensive.yurimon
- no, not about food... more about things like a retirement and savings for kids' college... buying a housemonospaced
- NY offers me a lifestyle that allows me to do that, and the game of saving and winning is fun... I'm never fully satisfiedmonospaced
- Hows you're spiritual growth in all this winning of savings? Hows the game in the long term when society falls apart?yurimon
- It's fine thank you. And yours?monospaced
- And i get blamed for being vagueyurimon
- freedom0
Work your ass off, fight to get impressive clients, win awards = there's still a million people + richer than you with nicer townhouses and having more fun.
- yurimon0
- bitter much? sorry the city spat you out on your assmonospaced
- I got bit of an awakening.,. sorry. maybe its best you stay ignorant.yurimon
- then you can live in nyc foreveryurimon
- you don't know shit about me, don't get all righteous about awakening, you are not more special than the rest of usmonospaced
- I never said i was special. but I know the difference between convincing myself of a rat race or reality of the human conditionyurimon
- its all good survival in a system of designed scarcity. thats what its all about.yurimon
- pinkfloyd0
Average NYC social scene:
"How much do you pay in rent?!"
"Well, actually I found a good deal"
Then they spread herpes
- lol, what?!Gnash
- < or what do you do, where do you live? then how muchyurimon
- then spread herpespinkfloyd
- hawhatthefunk
- dirtydesign0
New York City is the definition of a love/hate relationship.
- freedom0
Do all the people on minimum wage and retail live in Queens or Jersey? How do they even apply for leases?
- low income housing for a lot of themdirtydesign
- either live in the bronx or projects, rest with parents or not sure you can even rent a room.yurimon
- Even people who work for like Apple stores?freedom
- i would assume apple store isn't minimum wage. brooklyn, queens and harlem are somewhat affordable.dirtydesign
- pinkfloyd0
I was raised in NYC, and also lived in the suburbs. There's pros and cons to both areas. The biggest con for me about NYC is property is too expensive, and the one's available doesn't have a backyard, patio and isn't spacious as something i'd find in the suburbs.
It's really like a crowded fishtank which is a stressor after a while. I was living by Madison Square Garden, and I didn't like going out to get groceries because there'd be a mob of people i'd have to walk through just to buy breakfast or whatever. Walking the dogs was a bitch.
The pros of NYC is the diversity, and access to the best foods and shopping. There's more opportunities here, in a perfect world, I'd have the ideal job and home in a diverse suburb so that's why i'm checking out NJ.
- pinkfloyd0
In the suburbs, if I wanted to go to the movies and I get in my car and drive with easy parking. In NYC, you gotta take the crowded subways with a bunch of strangers standing diagnally, and parking is also a bitch here.
- ever lived in battery park?doesnotexist
- haven't been therepinkfloyd
- movie theatre, grocery stores &c all walking distancedoesnotexist
- pinkfloyd0
I'm not sure why, but the fruits and veggies make me gag as if there's more pesticides or something, where I had no problems in the burbs. The milk also expires faster here for some reason, like before the expiration dates. I can only eat organic stuff here.
- I agree, I believe they ship lesser quality goods to NYC b/c most people make fast decisions shopping
whatthefunk
- I agree, I believe they ship lesser quality goods to NYC b/c most people make fast decisions shopping
- pinkfloyd0
And.........
If you need medical service, it'll take an ambulance longer to get to you because of the traffic and when you get to the hospitals, you'll have to wait longer in some cases which also sucks.
When I lived in the suburbs, the first thing I noticed was how healthy older people looked. They were in their 70's and walking upright and moving around. In NYC, they're hunched over looking like walking corpse. I think there's too much toxins to live here too long so I don't plan on growing old here. It's not a good environment to raise a family. Most of my friends are married with children, where as New Yorkers are talking about rent, buying fondue and spreading herpes.
- pinkfloyd0
"I feel like older people are more active in cities. In the suburbs, they stay in their culdesacs and never go anywhere."
freedom
That is true, there's a lot of heavy folks around the suburbs. You rarely see that in NYC. When I see tourists, their sizes are disgusting.
NYC has a lot of hot women. They tan right, exercise and wax their bushes to perfection. Just put a condom on.
- Sleep around. Hard to settle down when you're partying and working all the time.freedom
- hektor9110
I've been here already, all I say is that the first two months I hated this place, now I'm starting to enjoy it more.
- utopian0
What's not to love?
- pinkfloyd0
Love this guy