New York is probably the only city in the worldly concern that almost everyone recollect about moving to at some compass point in their lives . Even those who have no desire to ever live in New York are still enamor by people who do , which is why it ’s the context for countless movies , boob tube shows , and belike staged viral telecasting asterisk squealer .
“Wait… your rent is HOW much?”
In New York , it ’s oddlynot study underbred , or even inappropriate , to outwardly take a stranger how much he / she pays in rent . Mainly because we ’re always disturbed we ’re getting a bad slew than our supporter , but also because living here make you weirdly obsess with genuine estate – it ’s intemperately not to peek into the bay window of that West Village townhouse and wonder how much the tenants pay , and Sunday afternoons are oftentimes spend doing Streeteasy searches “ just to look . ”
But that does n’t mean I want to be reminded that I could be paying off a mortgage practically anywhere else . That ’s not why I live here . And yes , it ’s fully brainsick how much I pay for a bathroom to be in my kitchen , but I ’m ( mostly ) over it , and I ’d appreciate if you could be too .
“I could never live in New York”
This is a serious backhand compliment .
“But how do you get your groceries?”
Why is it uncanny to walk to get grocery store and then walk them back home ? All it means is not corrupt in bulk or doing massive Costco run . I would n’t want to do that anyway , considering my storage outer space total to one weird cabinet in my kitchen that I suspiciously ca n’t open . I once got overly excited about a 12 - pack of report towels on sale , only to get home and literally have nowhere to put them .
“Chicago pizza is better than New York pizza”
Chicago and New York are like the the Sharks and Jets when it comes to their pizza pie competition . And that means , of course , that New York is the Sharks . It ’s not that New Yorkers ca n’t apprise a cryptic - dish … we just appreciate ourslicesa passel more .
“Yeah, but are the bagels as good as Einstein Bagels?”
What .
“Don’t you miss driving?”
Sure , there are certain aspects about get I overleap , but for the most part , not really . Public transferral in New York is pretty majuscule , and never take in to vex about the whole drinking and driving thing , gas , or a automobile payment is even great .
“You must hang out in Times Square all the time, huh?”
I can count on one hand the amount of times I ’ve “ hung out ” in Times Square , and the majority of those time were to do so ironically and/or eat on inexhaustible salad and bread-stick at the giant Olive Garden ( more or less less ironically , because unlimited salad and breadsticks are no joke ) . Times Square may besomething you need to see once in your life , but people who in reality live in New York incline to stay away from it the same waylocals in Vegas avoid the Strip .
“It smells like piss everywhere”
OK , it ’s noteverywhere . Just , you know , on certain subway weapons platform . Occasionally some of the actual trains . And perhaps several Downtown streets during the summertime months . But just slack with your stimulus generalization !
“Why don’t we/you take a cab/Uber?”
Cabs and Ubers are fantastic , but when you live here fulltime , for most they ’re consider a sumptuosity . think back , it ’s not loud to live here . So unless it ’s hail golfballs ( rain / C is fine ) or you ’re coming home tardily from far off , it ’s subway or walking all the way . peradventure a Citi Bike . Because as Ross Geller so famously said : “ Who am I , Rockefeller ? ”
“Can we go seeHamilton?”
Do you have $ 2,000 ?
“I don’t get it, why don’t you live in [absurdly expensive neighborhood]?”
There has yet to be one movie or goggle box show that expose naturalistic New York real estate of the realm . Every individual New York apartment you ’ve see on - screen is a unadulterated and double-dyed prevarication ; no one can give them . Not even Broad City gets it totally right , and are n’t they supposed to be broke ?
Bottom wrinkle is , no , we ca n’t live in one of those giant SoHo lofts on Greene St or that brownstone on Perry St , and neither can 99.9 % of the universe .
“Do you see celebrities everywhere?”
If you ’re actually paying attending , yes . But that signify , mostly no . Celebrities easily blend into the bustle here , and they honestly probably wish last in New York because people who know here are too wrapped up in their own shit to care or even notice they ’re SoulCycle - ing next to Alec Baldwin or grocery shopping with Helen Mirren . That said , I did purposely and extremely excitedly watch over Louis C.K. and his two kids for five blocks once .
“I don’t get the subway”
It ’s actually highly soft to figure out . The metropolis is a grid , and the subway carry you up / down / across the independent thoroughfare of it . The crinkle are even color- and alphabetic character - befool , and even though the G train is almost always delay for a quarter of a century , and we ’ve basically already stop over considering the L a train pedigree , it ’s still rated one of the safe and most effective public transport systems in the world .
“How can you not be dating anyone? There are people everywhere!”
HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Hamilton: An American Musical
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