How many of you like NYC as a city ?
How many of you lived in NYC and purposely tried to find a role in LA or SF for the better weather ? Or is it better to prioritize good firm and culture
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I don’t like nyc at all
I’m in the minority of folks that like the Bay Area
I'm in SF and was born and raised in CA. The weather is perfect, you can have a picturesque getaway to the coast or to wine country equivalent to a perfect day in Italy many weekends of the year. The city is not as international / young / bustling as NYC/London which in your 20s matters. I'd come back to California long term no doubt but I'm eyeing 1-3 years in NYC to experience whats out there myself. LA is a very superficial city socially, people are attractive and weather is great. If you stay in the nice parts, it's quite special. Just not as much of a hub as NYC again.
Wow literally exactly the same as me
I feel like it’s a necessary experience to live in NYC for at least a few of your young adult years, but unsure if I’ll stay long-long term
Following. Curious to see if people would genuinely pick NYC if they could pick any US city or is it more so just because of the career opportunities and where their particular job is.
Career opportunities? NYC for sure Deep sea fishing, polar bear hunting, and dog sledding? I can think of a place that is unmatched
Unmatched for career opportunities but honestly stayed there for a week and quickly realized the pace/flow of other cities worked better for me
Just moved from NYC to Houston. Job for me is an upgrade - going to be intentionally vague but I'm in the energy space and my old bank was having some issues (layoffs, pitching and not winning)
Some things about NYC I miss but also a lot of crap that I don't miss. It's a very bipolar experience where some things truly are amazing, and then you get a bum shitting himself on a train, or $80 Ubers coming back from Brooklyn, or just other stuff that adds up. The social scene is hard to beat.
I think if I could choose any city, it would be Dallas or Miami. Big city amenities, place is run with more common sense - wasn't the opportunity for me at the time but keeping eyes open. I realize those cities may not be everyone's cup of tea either so just speaking on personal preference. Towards the end of my time in NYC, I made some good friends who are old school New Yorkers, entire family spent generations there, and they acknowledge the problems and want to stay and fix them. I respect that. Just not really the hill I can die on now. We just need another Giuliani or Bloomberg to just clean the whole place out
I've lived in Miami, SF, and NYC. I'd pick NYC every day. Can't compare living here to anywhere else.
NYC is exceptional and anywhere else is not close. I can understand if you’re very embedded in American culture why you’d prefer elsewhere. But if you’re even tangentially international, it really isn’t close.
For people coming from abroad wanting a more walkable European feel, you're definitely not wrong. A lot of US cities are still slowly recovering from the internal violence of the 1960-1970s that pushed residents out toward suburbs and left the downtowns basically just business districts without much culture. NYC oddly was more resistant to that. Atlanta or Los Angeles though, good luck. Makes Houston seem walkable and that's saying something.
Houston's downtown underground tunnel system is amazing.
just went to austin, and couldnt beleive how bad the downtown area was nothing like nyc.
Yea but also the culture. American culture is quite compartmentalized by this concept of “phase of life” which is quite nebulous in the rest of the world. There’s an expectation elsewhere in the US to be dating by a certain age, settled by another etc. You can ultimately do what you want but there are subtle social consequences that don’t exist elsewhere.
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