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August 14, 2012 at 2:36 PM #750279August 14, 2012 at 4:01 PM #750281
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ParticipantG-d am I glad that I live in a city where you can show up for a date by subway train, on a unicycle, or by taxi, and so long as you look, dress, and act human, no one will say boo about it since 50% of people don’t even own cars. I’d expect San Francisco proper to not be that different in this respect.
This being said, I probably get more compliments about my car (old Mercedes in very good shape) than anyone in an Accord will 🙂
“What are you doing tomorrow…?”
“I need to head out to Jersey to do some work on my rental house. I’m free Sunday, though :)”
… or …
“I’m going to Dubrovnik, back in a week.”August 14, 2012 at 4:11 PM #750284
CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]G-d am I glad that I live in a city where you can show up for a date by subway train, on a unicycle, or by taxi, and so long as you look, dress, and act human, no one will say boo about it since 50% of people don’t even own cars. I’d expect San Francisco proper to not be that different in this respect.
This being said, I probably get more compliments about my car (old Mercedes in very good shape) than anyone in an Accord will 🙂
“What are you doing tomorrow…?”
“I need to head out to Jersey to do some work on my rental house. I’m free Sunday, though :)”
… or …
“I’m going to Dubrovnik, back in a week.”[/quote]Are we talking about the same NYC? Where people think if you don’t make close 1/2 million by the time you’re 30 and are single and have to live in the burbs, you’re not cutting it? NYC, where the entire economy pretty much revolves around wall street and Manhattan?
[quote]This being said, I probably get more compliments about my car (old Mercedes in very good shape) than anyone in an Accord will[/quote]
I thought you’re point was that people in your ideal world wouldn’t care what you drive? But then you’re trying to explain how much better one car is versus the other? Uh, ok…Sure, if you say so…
Just curious, if things are so great in jersey, why are you out here?
August 14, 2012 at 4:33 PM #750285ParticipantYou mean like CA where you haven’t made it unless you’re an actor in Hollywood? Or San Diego, where everyone is retired, in the military, or a gov’t contractor? That’s as much of a deluded and warped opinion of CA as yours is of NY.
The finance sector exists and does have a certain fawked-up subculture to it. Fortunately, it’s not the only industry in the city. Plenty of tech companies have set up shop in the past 15 years, pharma, universities, biomedical research, design, telecoms, engineering firms, government/UN. In fact, very few of my friends work for the big “downtown” banks.
Yeah, living in the ‘burbs if you’re single wouldn’t be ideal. Far better, hipper, and possibly cheaper to live in Queens or Brooklyn if you’re actually working in NYC. If you’re working in the ‘burbs, some places might by OK since they’re more like self-contained small towns.
I live in NYC. I’m in CA for work sometimes and am considering purchasing investment condos there, hence this forum. I’m also looking in NJ — better cap rates right now and the market is getting flooded with foreclosures and shorts as we speak.
This being said, I’d never actually live in NJ by choice, but rentals there comp out nicely right now and have the advantage of being near by.
Lastly, I’m not sure if I could cut it in the CA job market. A lot more of the jobs require letters after your name, whereas the attitude here is that if you can do it and have good references, you’ll get paid to do it.
August 14, 2012 at 6:51 PM #750286CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]You mean like CA where you haven’t made it unless you’re an actor in Hollywood? Or San Diego, where everyone is retired, in the military, or a gov’t contractor? That’s as much of a deluded and warped opinion of CA as yours is of NY.
The finance sector exists and does have a certain fawked-up subculture to it. Fortunately, it’s not the only industry in the city. Plenty of tech companies have set up shop in the past 15 years, pharma, universities, biomedical research, design, telecoms, engineering firms, government/UN. In fact, very few of my friends work for the big “downtown” banks.
Yeah, living in the ‘burbs if you’re single wouldn’t be ideal. Far better, hipper, and possibly cheaper to live in Queens or Brooklyn if you’re actually working in NYC. If you’re working in the ‘burbs, some places might by OK since they’re more like self-contained small towns.
I live in NYC. I’m in CA for work sometimes and am considering purchasing investment condos there, hence this forum. I’m also looking in NJ — better cap rates right now and the market is getting flooded with foreclosures and shorts as we speak.
This being said, I’d never actually live in NJ by choice, but rentals there comp out nicely right now and have the advantage of being near by.
Lastly, I’m not sure if I could cut it in the CA job market. A lot more of the jobs require letters after your name, whereas the attitude here is that if you can do it and have good references, you’ll get paid to do it.[/quote]
I spent quite some time in NYC actually. Went to school back east actually. And spent summertime in Manhattan… Materialism is everywhere, depends on where you look. Depends on what groups or group you want to hang out with, or your peers, likewise.
August 14, 2012 at 7:16 PM #750287ParticipantTwo months isn’t really enough to know NYC. Two decades might be … i.e. I’m still learning every day!
Materialism is everywhere, but I’d argue that NY (or any city where people walk!) has fewer ways to display it day-to-day than more suburban locales.
Being out in public space, especially when walking tends to make everyone equal. That guy you’re caught in a doorway with when the rain comes might be homeless, or he may have 10 million bucks in the bank. It’s not what you have, but what you know and what you do.
August 14, 2012 at 7:42 PM #750288briansd1
GuestMore opportunities for serendipity to happen in NYC.
You’re more segregated anywhere you’re boxed into your car and house.
August 14, 2012 at 8:37 PM #750290scaredyclassic
Participantwell, the movie CRASH showed that even people in vehicles can meet.
August 14, 2012 at 8:38 PM #750291Participanttoo many other people can be too much.
temecula is about perfect in space to human ratio.
August 14, 2012 at 8:39 PM #750292Participantwhy is my ipod not maneuverable when plugged into the car. it just plays. won’t let me move around. I’ve just been going straight through 4,459 songs on the shuffle…
August 14, 2012 at 8:42 PM #750293Participantmy wife didn’t really care about my car I don’t think. She knew right away i was cheap when i brought a cracked up coconut to the weird foreign movie we went to see. I wouldn’t have been interested in anyone unwilling to split a coconut anyway. In fact, i don’t really like most women. or men.
August 14, 2012 at 8:44 PM #750294Participant8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City A Horrible Place To Live
‘We’re Getting The Hell Out Of This Sewer,’ Entire Populace Reports
SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 | ISSUE 46•35
NEW YORK—At 4:32 p.m. Tuesday, every single resident of New York City decided to evacuate the famed metropolis, having realized it was nothing more than a massive, trash-ridden hellhole that slowly sucks the life out of every one of its inhabitants.
With audible murmurs of “This is no way to live,” “What the hell am I doing here—I hate it here,” and “Fuck this place. Fuck this horrible place,” all 8.4 million citizens in each of the five boroughs packed up their belongings and told reporters they would rather blow their brains out with a shotgun than spend another waking moment in this festering cesspool of filth and scum and sadness.
By 5:15 p.m. there was gridlock traffic on the outbound sides of the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, and the area’s three major airports were flooded with New Yorkers, all of whom said they wanted to go anyplace where the pressure of 20 million tons of concrete wasn’t constantly suffocating them.
“I always had this perverted sense of pride because I was managing to scrape by here,” said Brooklyn resident Andrew McQuade, who, after watching two subway rats gnawing on a third bloody rat carcass, finally determined that New York City was a giant sprawling cancer. “Well, fuck that. I don’t need to pay $2,000 a month to share a doghouse-sized apartment with some random Craigslist dipshit to prove my worth. I want to live like a goddamn human being.”
“You see this?” added McQuade, pointing at a real estate listing for a duplex in Hagerstown, MD. “Two bedrooms, two baths, a den—a fucking den—and a patio. Twelve hundred a month. That’s total, not per person.”
According to residents, the mass exodus was triggered by a number of normal, everyday New York City events. For Erin Caldwell of Manhattan, an endlessly honking car horn sent her over the edge, causing her to go into a blind rage and scream “shut up!” at the vehicle as loud as she could until her voice went hoarse; for Danny Tremba of Queens it was being cursed at for walking too slow; and for Paul Ogden, also of Queens, it was his overreaction to somebody walking too slow.
Other incidents that prompted citizens to pick up and leave included the sight of garbage bags stacked 5 feet high on the sidewalk; the realization that being alone among millions of anonymous people is actually quite horrifying; a blaring siren that droned on and fucking on; muddy, refuse-filled puddles that have inexplicably not dried in three years; the thought of growing into a person whose meanness and cynicism is cloaked in a kind of holier-than-thou brand of sarcasm that the rest of the world finds nauseating; and all the goddamn people.
In addition, 3 million New Yorkers reportedly left the city because they realized the phrase “Only in New York” is actually just a defense mechanism used to convince themselves that seeing a naked man take a shit on a park bench is somehow endearing, or part of some shared cultural experience.
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New York City
“I was sitting on my stoop, drinking coffee, and out of nowhere this crazy-looking woman just starts screaming, ‘I am inside all of you,’ over and over,” Bronx resident Sarah Perez, 37, said. “Then, we both had this moment where we looked at each other and realized, okay, we have to get out of here.”“This place sucks,” Manhattan resident Woody Allen, 74, told reporters. “It just fucking sucks.”
When fleeing New Yorkers were asked if they would miss the city’s iconic landmarks, most responded that Central Park is just a pathetic excuse for experiencing actual nature, that the Brooklyn Bridge is great but it’s just a fucking bridge, that nobody goes to the Met anyway, and that living in a dingy, grime-caked apartment while exhaust fumes from an idling truck seep through your bedroom window isn’t worth slightly bigger bagels.
“This is no place to raise a kid, that’s for sure,” said 32-year-old Brandon Rushing, a lifelong New Yorker. “I grew up here and I turned into a giant asshole. Why would I want that for my son?”
“Plus, we’re the place most likely to get nuked by a dirty bomb in a terrorist attack,” he added. “So that’s great. Also, it smells like shit here, and I’m not exaggerating. You’ll just be walking around and it starts smelling like human shit, and it just fills your nostrils and you breathe in shit for like 20 seconds.”
Before departing by private helicopter, Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke with members of the media to address the situation.
“You know what the greatest city in the world is?” Bloomberg asked reporters. “Scottsdale, Arizona. It’s clean, it’s not too big, it’s got a couple streets with shops and restaurants, and the people there aren’t fucking insane. This place is fucking insane. And by the way, that’s not a reason to like it. Anyone who says that is a delusional dirtbag.”
By Tuesday night, New York was completely abandoned. At press time, however, some 10 million Los Angeles–area residents, tired of their self-centered, laid-back culture and lack of four distinct seasons, and yearning for the hustle and bustle of East Coast life, had already begun repopulating the city.
August 14, 2012 at 8:45 PM #750295Participantabove article exactly expresses how i felt when i left NYC forever in 1988.
August 14, 2012 at 8:52 PM #750297ParticipantDid you get a job writing for The Onion after you left? 😀
August 14, 2012 at 9:03 PM #750298Participanti had no sense of humor then
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