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
It's really just the transplants who obsessively justify to themselves that the 2500 a month studio apartment in chelsea that might not even have a stove let alone a dishwasher or laundry is all worth it.
When it's essentially the closest thing you have to an ancestral home like it is for me, it's really just that nowhere else ever truly sits right. Not enough mania haha.