Why are New Yorkers so weird?

Coming from a state school I’m kind of taken aback but how weird everyone seems to be. Is this just me? Am I being too critical? Am I repressed? I don’t know. It seems like everyone is in a competition for who can be weirder.

 

Yeah but that's not exclusive to NYC, you're going to find that in a lot of places across the country. Is this your first time living in a big city or something?

 
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New Yorkers are the opposite end of the spectrum from the strange homeschooled kid. It changes you to grow up with minimal human interaction, but equally if you live in a shoebox with people you don’t know / hate an all six sides of your one room.

Additionally, the way to stand out in a flood of people is to be objectively weird. However, all that does is raise the bar on weirdness needed and lower the bar on what draws public comment and approbation. No social regulation from your fellow citizens, and it’s bad for everyone involved.

 
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hate an all six sides of your one room.

takes the expression of "four walls" to a whole new meaning

Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 

Manhattanites are about being yourself and expressing yourself. People from smaller cities out of state are used to fitting in. In NYC you can be whoever you want to be.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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I'm literally an expat and have studied/lived in 4 different countries, New York is just different

Stop saying NY the when you mean NYC

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I grew up here. Some Manhattanites love the fast pace and bustle, which is what other smart people who come from elsewhere love about new york, the stimulus. It isn't a great place if you move slowly. Those people who like the fast-paced environment, especially if you grow up here, have idiosyncrasies based on being around the best things the world has to offer, food, culture, urban violence/street cred. The people who don't like fast paced but grew up here, develop more introverted idiosyncrasies.

 

lol as someone who grew up in the UES, hearing transplants say "Manhattanites" is cringy as hell. Really trying to separate themselves from the rest of the city. The population that I assume you probably have interacted with is a very small say around 200-250k people out of the 8.5 million people that live in NYC. The true New Yorkers are very different from that small subset and if you live here beyond a decade, you will see that too. Until then buckle up. 

 

I moved to NYC recently too and I love it out here. I saw a tiktok (or some other social) about how people in other cities are "nice but not kind" but in NYC people are "kind but not nice". I have found this to be 100% true and, personally, I think it makes for the better of the two options. I'm still adjusting but I'm glad I made the move out here. 

 

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