Some guy will post a picture of a pretty standard looking pepperoni pizza and say: "Imagine not living in new york." And then there's the whole bodega discourse, which is also funny. "For you non-new yorkers, let me explain: a bodega is not a corner store. It's a place where you can buy gatorade, toilet paper, AND eggs." Thank you sir for explaining that to a slack-jawed yokel such as myself.
Anybody who cloaks themselves in the garb of "New Yorker" as their entire personality is a boring ass person. NYC is the best place to live in the United States since it's the only city where you can actually walk everywhere and that's why I love it but compared to any other city of similar or larger size it's embarrassing. We don't even have fucking glass on our metro platforms. Half of the island of Manhattan is a Disneyworld. A decent chunk of the iconic parts of NYC life have closed and are never coming back because landlords refuse to rent to businesses that aren't Starbucks or Planet Fitness. The roads are decaying, the parks are grassless wastelands, but fuck I don't know where else I could get a Tibetan momo, bomb ass al pastor tacos, xiao long bao, and fluffy bagels all on the same block.
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No, the new yorkers are really that far up their own assholes about things that exist in every fucking strip mall in this godforsaken hellhole.
Edit: ugh fucking poe's law I am 100% serious
Sounds like a great block comrade, but would I need a car to get there?
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Sounds pretty lit then!
Okay, but what about any place in between california and new york?
I used to live in Baltimore and I could get all three of those things, not on the same street but within a 15 minute bike ride of each other. Same in Denver, and Chicago, the only other two cities I've lived in. I live in West Virginia now and yeah, I can't get all three of those here sadly. We do have a pretty good taco place though surprisingly.
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Really hit the nail on the head, I love this place but it feels like swimming in lake thats slowly drying up. Straight up half the island is the most corporate, ugly garbage, just whole entire areas ceded to Citi Bank and Sweetgreen. Its a shame because it really is one of the only functionally livable places without a car, everyone I know in LA, San Francisco, and Philadelphia has a car.
Obviously Im biased but I do so resent the amount of people that come out of the woodwork and have to be kind of shitty in New York discourse? Cool, you have a gas station that sells gatorade and eggs, is it owned and run by the same guy for the last decade or is it a Sunoco? Like, I get it, you gotta get your dunks in, but someone on Twitter posts a picture of a cup full of butter they got at a bodega and everyone has to come in with I CAN ALSO BUY BUTTER who cares dude? Just let the NYC chumps pay their exorbitant rent and try to enjoy themselves.
I think just because of the population of the city and how much its media circles dominate. It was a while before I realized how much of the American media I consume as a foreigner is more specifically New York media about America.
I could understand being frustrated at social media spaces flooding with the same shit about the same city you don't live in, over and over.
its a downward spiral, like a flushing toilet, because it tends to flood social media because of the people getting angry.
Yeah it's a shame that NYC is pretty much the only place I can live in the United States without owning a car, and I can feel it dying. The outer boroughs still have life, but it's only a matter of time before my local places are replaced with Dig Inns and Trader Joe's.
Breaks my heart tbh. Everyone with institutional power in this city actively cheers on its death, its terrible. Its got what, ten years left before it just empties out? Its so mismanaged, and its been the only place I can enjoy living since I grew up in a rural/suburban hellhole.
Yeah I think ten years is about how long I'm spending in the city before moving somewhere else, alas not in the US since where the fuck else can I get something even close to NYC in this hellhole? Wish all my friends and family weren't here...
Ive been thinking about, idk, europe somewhere? Maybe tokyo, Id have a really hard time blending though Japan isnt great for ex-pats. In reality Ill probably ride this sinking ship for a long time.
Gonna be honest NYC is not going away, it's just changing. It's changed several times over the decades. Your NYC is probably going away though, sadly. NYC of the 1940s is totally different from the NYC of the 1970s is totally different from the NYC of the 90s is totally different from the NYC of today.
If it makes you feel better, Tokyo is the same.
Yeah but Tokyo has some of the best transit in the world and incredibly well planned districts. If we had that and no glass I'd feel better.
Yeah the transit is pretty great but district planning is surprisingly very lax. Most of Tokyo is just generically mixed-use commercial/industrial/residential. Very good for walkability though.
The issue with Tokyo trains is that jumping in front of a train is one of the more popular ways to commit suicide for a country with very little access to guns and strict controls on many types of pills.
Its not uncommon for train lines to run late during rush hour because of a suicide (or attempt).
Don't know how to tell you this but it's exactly the same in NYC re: suicides and the train. Especially around the holidays, when it feels like every other day the trains are stopped for somebody jumping in front of a train.
Lots of people will say that laxed district planning is a good thing.
I think that's probably true in the general sense, but I also think that if planning was ever relaxed in the US then Raytheon will start building nuclear waste dumps near preschools to save a buck.
Yeah that's sort of where I'm at. Zoning is a major tool of landed capital associated with real estate, but abolishing zoning would be a dream for so many big players in a lot of sectors including real estate.
I think the relaxation has to be very specific - for example, large residential lots and big belts single family homes should be allowed to be come missing middle housing, or two or three story buildings with small commercial on the bottom.
It'd be much better if this was all just implemented publicly of course.
Montreal, but throw in Banh Mi, Salvadoran pupusas, injera and even an anzac biscuit, though I don't know why anyone would want that last one :aus-delenda-est:
NYC has pretty bad Vietnamese tbh. There's some ok Banh Mi but nothing like stuff I've had in Boston or Philadelphia.
Down in Louisiana Banh Mi has comingled with the po' boy to produce something truly magical. Check it out if you get the chance.
That sounds so fucking good, will definitely bite into that if I ever get the chance!