I have only been through the Airport in NY but I think I would like to visit the City someday.
I have been to Sydney and Brisbane and Melbourne, Beijing & Shanghai and a lot of other cities in China, even spent a few months in Shanghai) and numerous cities in Europe, USA (too many to figure out).
(even HNL several times).
But never NYC,
Only two things I can say
1)Visit them when you are fairly young (younger the better), (when your old it’s to late to reach the top of the Buddha).
2)I don’t want to live in a real city, they are fun to visit but they are not for me (to each their own here).