- They have all the hot girls in NYC
- They have too many good restaurants there
- All the top jobs in law, finance, medicine, fashion and others are in NYC
- NYU Stern has the perfect location and is a top school
- Vermont is only a few hours away to have a nice mountain escape
- Hamptons on the weekends or in the summer is a deserved retreat
- 420 is legal
- Artichoke pizza
- Dorsia's (if you can get a reservation)
- What am I missing?
oh yeah the Halal food trucks are bomb. Why would anyone want to live in NYC - it is wayyy too perfect. Seems like a dream, doesn't it. Just toooooo perfect.
Never once have I thought of it as perfect, let alone "too" perfect. Today negatives far outweigh the positives, but I'd admit it was a net positive living there 7+ yrs ago.
Artichoke is considered the best pizza in NYC?
I'd rather eat grilled cheese off the radiator
grilled cheese off the radiator has its perks
that's one hell of a compromise
Shah of Iran over here
Have a breadstick. The wine’s got you emotional.
Uncle Philly did 20 years in the back office!
Idk man been living here for years and all of what you say is true but the downsides are real as hell too
What're the downsides?
Getting robbed
Don’t get me wrong, I still like it here but it is dirty, trash on the streets, many homeless/crazies walking around, and the subway system is good by American standards but pretty decrepit compared to cities internationally. Taxes are also high but public funds are hopelessly mismanaged anyway.
Increasing odds of being victim of a crime.
Half the time the cops shrug their shoulders and don't do anything. The other half, they arrest them and then the DA / judges immediately release the criminal so that they can do it all over again.
NYC peaked in 2014-2019, but it's going downhill and fast because of a combination of things: bad liberal policies from mayor de Blasio, influx of migrants, bail reform, democrat DAs and judges that don't lock up criminals (Alvin Bragg smh), anti-cop sentiment, etc.
I love living here and am grateful that the subway is convenient, but it's pretty nasty and gets crowded. I also hate waiting in lines in general which makes some things rough. Garbage bags lining the sidewalk isn't ideal either. To me though the positives outweigh the negatives.
I have foxes and deer strolling on my front lawn and I can fly fish in the stream 5 minutes walk from me. And it's quiet at night
Plus my town is far enough away from priority nuclear targets in case of WW3
Such a thing doesn't exist in NYC
Maybe you're married though - if so congrats. NYC is the best place to meet people.
Feel similarly. I started in SF but coming up on two years in NYC it’s been a perfect fit for me. I live alone in west village, make more than enough money, go out to nice restaurants all the time, hot girl concentration on par with my SoCal campus. Really hard to think of a better city for a mid 20s guy.
About to get a sport bike too. For all the imperfections of the city in the end it’s pretty sick to live here.
I did SF to NYC as well. I learned to appreciate the Bay after a while but wish I moved to New York sooner
I like short stints there, but not sure I could live there more than a few months at a time.
It’s just a place, same as any other
Same… Same!!!! SAME!!!!!!!!!!!!
nah brah this city is one of a kind
Williamsburg seems like a more ideal area than many of manhattans neighborhoods imo
They got more thottianas
As a fresh grad coming from the West Coast, I thought it was the greatest thing ever too. Made do with a 200 sq. ft. room in a shared apartment (w/ a gentleman 40 years my senior) all for being able to say I was living and working in the “Big Apple.” Spent way too much of my beginner salary (not banking) on going out and trying as many new restaurants as I could (met my now wife and we would do date nights almost every weekend as I tried to find the best Italian/Sushi/Steakhouse etc to impress.) Signed up for a MET membership and enjoyed cheaper weekends checking out the exhibits and walking through Central Park or running along the Westside highway. Do I miss these aspects of it? Most definitely. Would that honeymoon phase eventually wear off? Possibly. Still loved it when I moved, which was right after the lockdowns.
Now that we’re married, have a home, and signed up for a private golf membership, I’ve been enjoying the more “laidback” lifestyle and easier access to outdoor activities (not sure I’d be ok with hauling my clubs through the subway / paying for Uber / or for expensive green fees for 6+ hr rounds vs rolling straight onto the local course with a personal cart.) Food choices are nowhere near as unique or worthwhile, but we’ve gotten much better at cooking since the pandemic (wagyu ribeyes at a fraction the cost, homemade pastas using Flour + Water cookbook - great restaurant in SF btw - that scratch the itch from places we’ve had in NYC, to BBQ Kalbi.) Morning walks with the dog are more enjoyable. Not to mention the being able to afford a home aspect. As with most things in life (including the home ownership lol) there’s positives and negatives, trying to focus on the former more.
How old are you now? What age did you say "I don't want this lifestyle any more?"
Turning 30 this year. Mindset didn’t really chance until I moved down to Florida really, before that I spent a couple years in Chicago, and though habits changed somewhat forcibly due to COVID, still could have seen myself going back to NYC (had actually received an offer and was deciding between that or my current gig.) Tail-end of twenties was the major shift, which I’ve seen happen to some of my peers as well.
NYC is a terrific place to visit but despite growing up in NYCish, I never really wanted to live in NYC for various reasons including but not limited to small living space, stress of crowded streets, lack of greenery aside from specific places, etc. Walking from up town to Penn in NYC at rush hour might take a few years off of your life. When I was young, I worked in NYC and lived near New Brunswick at the time. That was close enough for me. If you are young, it is a good place meet females but NYC does not have monopoly on women. When you are older, you value space, and it might cost me 50 million to get comparable space in NYC compared to where I live now.
I love New York but to the point on women, I've actually always thought that the average woman in NYC is maybe higher than most places but definitely not at the top of the lists of places I've been. I think there's so many people that you see a large number of attractive women and it makes it feel like it's a lot, but when you break it down on a per capita it just seems above average. That said, NYC definitely ranks #1 in all of the world in terms of finding an attractive woman that also has a nice career if that's what you're looking for.
Well no shit NYC has like 20 million people, most of them poor and trust fund-less so it's average isn't significantly different than any major Anglosphere city in the world with a similar racial breakdown. It's the top-tier West Village/SoHo/Upper West Side/Tribeca trust fund 5'11 runway models that are Vogue covers that I'm talking about, which are probably 0.001% of the population and you need the right combination of looks, status and social circle to date.
tl;dr: median attractiveness in NYC not extraordinary, but a much higher ceiling (only in London/Paris/Milan would you find a similar concentration of top 5'11+ runway models and Paris/Milan lacks the background/pedigree/wealth of the girls in NYC/London)
Ok I'll bite.
Overpriced, liberal haven, dangerous but can't own self defense measures, dirty, overpopulated, no access to outdoors except parks lodged in between gigantic slabs of concrete, insane taxes and COL. Vermont skiing stinks too compared to elsewhere in the country / world.
You had me at overpriced.
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