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New York
This thread is thought of largely as a companion to n'ik's 'London' one. I've been to New York and loved it, and wouldn't mind living there for a bit one day. As a city it seems to generate as many extreme views as London, so just wondered what others here thought of it.
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i've been a couple of times, i'd love to live there one day too, but i don't really think there's much possibility of that actually happening.
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ditto. In many ways I prefer it to London - more manageable scale, FAR better food, generally cheaper. I'd like to teach there, but the competition for jobs there seems even higher than it is here.
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Its a pretty cool place but on a par with london in regards to expense.
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After growing up right here, I feel spoiled. I hate to spout cliches, but No other city has as much variety. There is something for everyone.
There are a ton of great museums. The music scene is one of the best anywhere. There is such a variety of dining choices from down and dirty to extremely high end. Just don't try to live in the city and own a car unless you are very wealthy. Employment wise you don't even need a college degree to get a decent job, you just have to be motivated. Employers here seem to appreciate intelligence and moxie more than a piece of paper. (although a college degree will help) I love NYC. There is very little bullshit. People tell you what they really think and we don't "do lunch" we just do. |
I had the chance to move to New York about twelve years ago when I handed in my resignation at a job and they were so desperate to keep me that they said that I could work in any of their offices of my choice, anywhere in the world. I seriously considered NY, but ultimately didn't have the confidence to emigrate.
In retrospect I probably made the right decision, but I do love the place for a few days at a time. |
never been to nyc.. will be at some stage tho.. just one of those places i have to see along with montecarlo and paris.
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i go to nyc all the time. my uncle's partner is geffrey sellers, who is one of the 3 producers of 'rent, as well as many other successful plays. obviously theyure rich. my uncle has a guest apartment on then upper east side where i stay as much as possible. the prices these days though are getting absurd. i remember i was at this little punk clothing shop on bowery street and they had all these old concert shirts. i picked up a crass, butthole surfers, mayhem, and nausea shirt. these things were beat the fuck up, holes and shit. at the counter, the dudes like, ok, thatll be 600 dollars please. i was like are you fucking kidding me. no one who listens to this music woulad actually pay that prices, just trendy hipsters who want something to match their new vintage leahter.
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i love living there. my favourite city in the world.
i will never live anywhere else (in the US) |
i have gone to ny pretty much yearly since i have been like two years old, needless to say i love it.
i too would love living there, but not for too long, for some reason i don't see myself becoming a new yorker so to speak. but yeah, i love that you can walk anywhere in the city, love the diversity, the record stores and yeah most people are pretty cool. i once almost got my ass beat at other music for looking at some guy's copy of sparks' kimono my house, though. |
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Why would someone get so pissed off that they'd want to fight you over that? |
It is an incredibly seductive city. London is much more of a slow release (although I think ultimately more fulfilling) than New York's sheer in-your-faceness. The one thing I can't say about it is what it'd be like there without much money. When I've been there I've always had a lot of money with me, so the city has been something of a playground for me - providing a welcome escape from the harsh realities of London. I love it, but do wonder how much I'd like it quite as much if i was broke while I was there. Saying that, I don't care how much money I have when I'm in Paris, it always bores me.
The one thing NYC would have over London if you were broke is that you could still get around. Without money for the tube, London is pretty much reduced to whichever little pocket of it you happen to live in. Depending on where that pocket is, you can easily forget you're actually in London when stuck in a single part of it. |
my favorite place in the world and that's why i'm moving there in exactly two weeks now. i'm scared about not finding a job but everyone says it's actually pretty easy especially if you have cooking or serving expierence like myself. going to school up there is expensive especially with the out of state tuition added on.
you can easily find a 500-600 dollar a month room in brooklyn. it's expensive there, but if you find a job you'll be able to get by. |
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i'd like to know that myself! there was a crate of albums on the floor and the cover of the first record there seemed familiar, so i ducked to have a better look (the crate was not at reaching distance though), recognized it was the sparks album and went to the door as i was already leaving. this hand reached for my shoulder and yelled "HEY!!!" really loud and this black guy, a good two heads taller than me starts yelling at me "why did you do that?" "what?" "you were looking at my record!" "what record?" "that one" *points at crate* "sorry, i didn't know it was yours, i just looked at it" "why did you do that?" i then spent the next 3 minutes saying "sorry" until the guy let me go. my only explanation is that it is new york after all. |
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that is a good price especially for manhatten. i would need at least 2 other roommates before i could afford something like that at this point. |
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isn't looking at a dj's records a big faux pas though? |
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i got lucky though and now i don't work and i don't pay rent either |
That's weird. My memory of New Yorkers was that they were incredibly friendly. Saying that, they seemed to like the fact I was English and often passed sly remarks about people from other US states or cities. One guy I met, who seemed like an absolute cunt to everyone around him, was buying me drinks all night and telling me The Fall were the greatest thing in the world.
For British people, NYC can be a total ego-boost, but I get the feeling people from other parts of America might witness a bit more hostility. A great anecdote. I was in a bar in Alphabet City last year when a woman told me about a guy that comes in and tries to hit on the girls there by faking a British accent and dressing in Fred Perry polo shirts, etc. She was really hoping he was gonna be in that night because, her words not mine, 'he's an asshole and he's TOTALLY gonna hate you.' Apparantly he was from San Francisco but went to college in the UK and came back thinking he was Damon Albarn or someone. Either way, he never showed and I got hit on by three women during the course of that night. God bless NY is all I'll say. |
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That's frikkin hilarious. I would LOVE for some of the ex-pats that I ride with to bump into this poseur. PS - Post #666 w00t!! |
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I can put you in a 5 bedroom, 4 bath, 3000 square foot house with a pool and a jacuzzi and a 3 car garage and all new appliances 1/3 of an acre for $1600/month in houston |
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i think i heard about that, but that crate was at a record store, so... --- whenever i'm in ny i always get stopped and complimented on my shirts. last year, a lady of about 40 told me how she loves flipper at the barnes & noble across the street from st. marks. |
Didn't we have 5000 threads about London and New York already? Not everyone who posts on this forum lives in either city.
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and that's why they need to know what it's like
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Sarramkrop^^True, but a good few of those that don't seem interested in either living in, or at least visiting them.
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Oh ok, then.
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my memories of NYC (I last visited there when I was aged 6-7)
my uncles brownstone the statue of liberty and taking the ferry going to the top of the world trade center, staring down holding my glasses so they would not fall off my face, and making and throwing a paper airplane off the top, which I lost view of around 30 stories down. The Rockettes |
When I was growing up, NY (more specifically Manhattan) seemed like the most exciting place in the world. It was where Spiderman lived and King Kong went on the rampage. I learnt the names of all the districts as a kid by watching films like The Warriors and listening to Grandmaster Flash records. I imagined that every person in the city looked like either Travis Bickle, a Warhol superstar or Eric B. Even watching TV shows like Taxi fuelled my obsession with the city. I'm sure a large part of why Sonic Youth meant so much to me at that time was as much to do with their being from NY as it was their music. I remember finally getting there and stumbling across Eldridge St and getting this weird thrill of finally seeing a place I'd once fantasised about.
I was brought up in the arse end of East London, where absolutely nothing was happening whatsoever at the time - and isn't still to this day. NY became this mythical place for me. I read an interview with Antony from Antony and the Johnsons recently where he said that finally arriving in NY after years of obsessing over it, he felt like he made sense. This is exactly how I felt when i stepped off the bus at Grand Central Station. It's very hard to describe, but all I can say is that I felt totally at ease with myself, maybe for the first time in my life. In sexual terms it's like I 'came out', only to have to get back into the closet on my return to London. I know this all sounds rather melodramatic, and it probably is, but it's probably the most honest thing I've ever posted here, so fuck it. |
that's a great thing man.
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pssst - Port Authority Bus Terminal - Grand Central is a train terminal. |
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being from florida, that's how i felt. when my best friend moved up there i didn't bother seeing her until new years. i always dreamed about living in nyc (or portland) but i never thought i would. it wasn't until i went up there and saw brooklyn that i knew i had to move up there as fast as possible. |
Mangajunky^^Yeah, I know but I got this shuttle bus from JFK which stopped right outside Grand Central. All the other buses were going to Port Authority but I needed to get to East 17th Street and some guy pointed me to a bus that'd take me closer by stopping outside Grand Central.
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anyway as far as living elsewhere in the US i would kind of like to check out minneapolis (don't ask me why but i like the midwest) or olympia, wa because i kinda miss living in a big old house, but you can't get anywhere living in st. louis (which is where i'm from, unfortunately) so i don't want to live there. |
something to consider when visiting
something to consider
many of those little restaurants don't have mechanical dishwashers, they do it by hand, and probably don't even use hot water in order to save money. Health Dept: Quarter of NYC Residents Have Herpes NEW YORK (AP) -- A city Health Department study finds that more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with the virus that causes genital herpes. The study, released Monday, says about 26 percent of New York City adults have genital herpes, compared to about 19 percent nationwide. The department says genital herpes can double a person's risk for contracting HIV. Herpes can cause painful sores, but most people have no recognizable symptoms. Among New Yorkers, the herpes rate is higher among women, black people and gay men. The health department urges consistent use of condoms, and says its STD clinics offer free, confidential herpes testing. |
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yeah but it's frikkin texas! :( |
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Because of my childhood obsession with The Warriors i took the subway across Brooklyn to Coney Island just so I could see the Wonderwheel. I think I might've been the only person in the world that got such a thrill from visiting a closed fairground (it was mid-January.) It was a bit embarrasing coming back and showing people photos, and repeatedly being asked why I had about a dozen pictures of a ferris wheel. |
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that's why i would rather not dishwash unless i really needed a job. |
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Grand Central is a way better first impression. |
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i kind of want a tattoo of the pisces thing from the ceiling |
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