Bodegas are literally just gas stations without the gas, IDK why NYC thinks they're the only city in America where you can go to a convenience store at 2 a.m
Also the thing where they'll talk about how "diverse" the staff at Bodegas are and how that makes them special, as if every 7/11 outside the North East is exclusively staffed by white coal miners.
Brooklyn delenda est
New Yorkers are constantly yelling about how their city is the greatest city in the world while refusing to learn about anything that happens anywhere else. Worse than Parisians.
It's not only native New Yorkers.
I grew up in a city of around 1 million, and what I've experienced is plenty of people I know who moved to New York (or Toronto, the Canadian equivalent) will claim that New York is vastly superior in every way to their hometown.
But, I know for a fact that when they lived here they barely left the Suburbs, and only drove downtown to go to malls, while refusing to walk around in urban neighborhoods in fear of 'scary' homeless people on the sidewalk. Lot's of transplants to NYC will defensively portray where they came from as worse than it is, or they simply never experienced more than a small window of it.
In fact, IMO transplants have the worst superiority complex
Transplants are unquestionably worse than natives, it doesn't even come close. It's because transplants need to justify to themselves all the many things wrong with the city somehow and those who are native just kinda take the bullshit as is but love it because of the history your family has there (most natives have been there a few generations, or at least as far back as it was for them to immigrate to the country at all).
I'm a native going back 4 generations depending on how you look at things, and honestly, while no other city will ever be home in the same way, the quality of life there is just so much lower with the same salaries than it was when I was a kid so it's hard to justify it. Additionally, a lot of "fuck nyc" shit is seeped in racism and anti-semitism when it comes from Chuds, so I'll always still defend the place haha.
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All of those things have been true forever re: rats and trash. If anything these problems have gotten better not worse. The only thing that's changed in a negative way is the cost of living has gone up substantially so it's become impossible for people to move out of their parents houses and still stay nearby, also the subway tends to fluctuate in quality over the years and it currently is a lower point but far from as bad as it once was.
NYers know about other cities, they just know they suck /s. But real talk, if you're from one of the various ethnic groups that dominate NYC cultural life, no other city in the country will ever feel remotely as homey.
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