Visited NYC to do some errands. I went to some Chinese dumpling place that sold 5 fried dumplings for 1 dollar (10 for $2), unbelievable
Same here. 2k a month for a fucking 1 bedroom 850sf apt. Man, if I wasnt in my mid 40s I would buy a house. But houses cost so fucking much and I would have a mortgag til the day I die.
Masshole. It's beautiful, but sick of everything after living there for 16 years (13 to 29).
I don't know how anyone can grow up and live in the same town forever. It's one thing to try somewhere else THEN come back to your sweet hometown, but never leaving the place? I'd kill myself.
They don't just think it is preferable, they think they are better because they do it. Like going to a gladiator school where you live a shitty life and get no credit for even being a gladiator is some life-long dream. I lived in the city for a year and have worked in it for almost 5. NY stinks, looks like shit, and the people are assholes. NY'ers take no pride in their city and are willing to fuck it up just to be lazy and seem "cool" about living in a shithole.
That's not even starting on a disgusting grocery stores that mark everything up by 30% or how the great "variety" of restaurants yield a single good one out of every 10 while you pay for shitty service and overpriced "chi-chi" crap.
Or the Metro North with their 40 year old trains that smell like Porta-Potty or NJ Transit where trains break down every day or the subway which smells like rats, shit, and festering garbage.
NY has one major redeeming quality, jobs (that and good sightseeing but shitty living). Fuck everything else about it.
I bet this was the place:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=China...CJ-xrBp8ANcCa2VTIN_E2A&cbp=12,136.07,,0,10.47
GF and I were there last weekend. She was half joking and laughing when she said, "You eat them so well, god knows what's really in the dumpling."
NYC is for people who can deal with the pace and number of people, this is of course not everyone.
I'd rather cut off my left testicle with a rusty pitchfork than have to live in suburban Texas.
I bet this was the place:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Chinatown,+New+York,+NY&hl=en&ll=40.715289,-73.999583&spn=0.007148,0.016512&sll=38.341656,-94.130859&sspn=15.129914,33.815918&vpsrc=6&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.71538,-73.999545&panoid=CJ-xrBp8ANcCa2VTIN_E2A&cbp=12,136.07,,0,10.47
GF and I were there last weekend. She was half joking and laughing when she said, "You eat them so well, god knows what's really in the dumpling."
I had known it was relatively safe as a large city but I'm surprised.Crime ridden? Try Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Memphis if you want to see crime ridden hell holes. NYC is comparatively safe ranked against pretty much all the other urban areas in the country.
I grew and live in the area and agree with you and Magnus completely. IMO you can get most of the better aspects of NY living in smaller cities. People always talk about the museums and the culture. How many times a year does the average NYer go to an art museum? The only real benefit of NYC is that you can go to a lot of different bars without driving.
People really are giant dicks here too. Last year I traveled around the US by motorcycle and needed to be helped out of a few situations by strangers. I always got help from the first person I asked or even without asking, especially in the Midwest. Last month I left the the headlights on on the bike near Washington Square Park. It took me almost an hour to find someone willing to give me a jump despite asking at least 20 people. I was completely disgusted.
you act far too old to be 29
i was thinking 59
my advice is to move directly to jacksonville
Come to Chicago! I'm paying 1/2 the price for housing, have a car and making more than double the money than what I did at a bulge bracket in new york
Plus even after the jacked the IL state tax, it comes out less than NYC state + city tax. The only downside really is that midwest folk tend to wanna talk to you (a stranger) on the mass transit.
You're a funny troll!
I bet it was this place
http://www.yelp.com/biz/joes-shanghai-new-york-2
Soup dumplings are great, the rest is kinda meh.
As I said before, I was paying over 3,500/mo for a 688sqft apartment, screw NYC.
what's funny is so many 'land' owners own land no one else wants.
their 20-30 min commutes are really 60mins and longer if it rains and the road flood.
They have well water and 56k modem is the best internet they get unless willing for satellite. Same with 'tv'.
People that live in shit holes usually try to piss on the shiny people.
Yeah, my 45min commute into GCT rapidly turns to 2 hours with 2" of snow, 20mph winds, or a 95 degree day. The subway floods. LIRR and NJT are worse than MN. The city is miserable to get around when it's wet or hot.
When we lived in the city I remember walking 10min to the 1 train in my suit, getting down into the subway where it was 90 above ground and 110 below, sweating my ass off more only to have some sweaty ass beast that just got done jogging rub his body on the poles.
Shiny people often aren't all that shiny and, like you, are really actually dull.
what's funny is so many 'land' owners own land no one else wants.
their 20-30 min commutes are really 60mins and longer if it rains and the road flood.
They have well water and 56k modem is the best internet they get unless willing for satellite. Same with 'tv'.
People that live in s**t holes usually try to p**s on the shiny people.
Yeah, my 45min commute into GCT rapidly turns to 2 hours with 2" of snow, 20mph winds, or a 95 degree day. The subway floods. LIRR and NJT are worse than MN. The city is miserable to get around when it's wet or hot.
When we lived in the city I remember walking 10min to the 1 train in my suit, getting down into the subway where it was 90 above ground and 110 below, sweating my ass off more only to have some sweaty ass beast that just got done jogging rub his body on the poles.
Shiny people often aren't all that shiny and, like you, are really actually dull.
I bet this was the place:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=China...CJ-xrBp8ANcCa2VTIN_E2A&cbp=12,136.07,,0,10.47
GF and I were there last weekend. She was half joking and laughing when she said, "You eat them so well, god knows what's really in the dumpling."