I love being from NY

Grand Cru Boo

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I'm not mad at this comment. It's almost a fact. I'll probably never leave NYC, but there's so much nonsense that happens here that just wouldn't fly anywhere else in the country and it's chalked up to people from NYC thinking it's normal standard operating procedure because they haven't lived anywhere else, or chalked up to transplants/newcomers saying "oh, well, that's NYC for ya! how great is this!"

A city known for vibrant creativity turned into a place where it's damn near possible to make a living doing anything creative. A city known for vibrant enclaves and local businesses filled with landlords sitting on vacant commercial space, collecting tax breaks, waiting for a Chase bank or Duane Reade to come take over the lease.

Everything in NYC is a big battle and it can get exhausting sometimes. Battle/fight to get to work every morning, battle/fight to get decent housing, battle/fight to go out to eat, wait in lines for damn near everything. TSA at JFK airport has to be up there with the worst, most in-efficient agency operating in the entire country. Now they're going to put through congestion pricing where it's going to cost MORE money to drive into Manhattan. The tolls (that you can't pay in cash anymore, everyone needs a trackable EZ-pass) weren't enough. The MTA is literally falling apart due to decades of mismanagement and politicians kicking the can down the road, yet everywhere you look there are dozens of huge high-rise apartments going up adding thousands of more people to already overcrowded neighborhoods and infrastructure. The city's just filled with weak chain stores and lame trendy "Instagram friendly" businesses that will pack up and leave in a year or two once the hype dies down

Everyone wants to talk about how NY rap fell off... it's because the city itself fell the fukk off and the culture here is extremely different, to almost non-existent...and it's never coming back.

Commute 1.5 hours each way to work, be on a waiting list for housing, be on a waiting list for parking, be on a waiting list for a municipal job, spend 3 hours going to MetLife Stadium to go through airport-style security and $20 beers to see the Giants lose. as much as I love NYC the whole city in 2017 is a massive L. Unless you got double digit millions without a care in the world (which apparently a lot of people here fall under those categories) the city is a huge pain in the ass and the quality of life is garbage.

But...where else would you rather be? A cookie cutter housing tract in Texas where everything closes at 9 pm and the most exciting thing you got going on is the WalMart? :francis::yeshrug:



sounds like it's a L everywhere


Facts bro. It a fight every damn day for ordinary ish. Trains are overcrowded, there a line for EVERYTHING, getting over the bridge is a hassle, finding parking is a hassle, alternate parking is a hassle, just a big ass inconvenience all day long until I get back to my sanctuary and breath. Im not complaining, it is what it is but goddamn if it dont get annoying after a while
 

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I lived here for 20 years now and I don't see what the hype is....NYC no longer produces anything original.

All the food and music that was known here is being produced somewhere else now.

This is just a big ass city of miscreants living off the rep from 30 years ago #facts

Therefore, they don't run the East either. Toronto is more relevant than NYC right now.
 

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NYC is a shadow of its former self which is great when we talk about crime but in terms of excitement, culture and just originality, bad. Most of the city is basically for tourists and for the suburbianites now. One big suburb. Basically all the folks from the suburbs got tired of the suburbs, basically moved into the inner city to escape the suburbs while turning the inner city to a suburb. If that isn't irony. Folks think they're cool too actually living in an congested, decaying, crumbling urban metropolis.
 

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I lived here for 20 years now and I don't see what the hype is....NYC no longer produces anything original.

All the food and music that was known here is being produced somewhere else now.

This is just a big ass city of miscreants living off the rep from 30 years ago #facts
Therefore, they don't run the East either. Toronto is more relevant than NYC right now.

:stopitslime:


Ya'll in here talking about some damn food and music focused on irrelevant, shyt basing things on the current state of hip hop, FOH......NYC is the global financial capital.

Thats our ultimate bragging right. If u aint speaking on that u aint saying nothing.


http://www.crainsnewyork.com/articl...rk-citys-standing-as-global-financial-capital
 
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