I could never live in NYC
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I wish my city had half the transportation of New York.
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I could never live in NYC… the homelessness problem is too widespread in pretty much all of US cities.
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Weirdest thing I've brought on public transit:
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I live in NYC and never leave the house now what
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I live in NYC and never leave the house now what
Do you just...live chairless?
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I wish my city had half the transportation of New York.
I would take half the restaurants.
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I guess I don't understand the reference. How else are you going to get something you bought back to your place? This doesn't seem weird. I'm not in or from, and have never been to, NYC though, so I'm probably missing something lol
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I could never live in NYC… the homelessness problem is too widespread in pretty much all of US cities.
I'm confident whatever you are imagining is not the daily lived experience of new york city. People picture like times square in 1973 on new years eve and also classic film the warriors. Go look at like park slope on google street view (or another similar service of your choosing).
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Do you just...live chairless?
You can have chairs delivered
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I'm confident whatever you are imagining is not the daily lived experience of new york city. People picture like times square in 1973 on new years eve and also classic film the warriors. Go look at like park slope on google street view (or another similar service of your choosing).
I went through Penn Station more times than I would have wanted. Arriving and leaving from there twisted my stomach in a knot, I wouldn’t be able to handle it every day.
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I went through Penn Station more times than I would have wanted. Arriving and leaving from there twisted my stomach in a knot, I wouldn’t be able to handle it every day.
If you live here you don't really go through Penn station. That's a major commuter hub.
I've lived here for years and only go there if I need to go to NJ transit for some reason (which isn't often).
That's like thinking all of NJ is Secaucus train station, or all of someplace else is just the airport. It's not representative.
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I guess I don't understand the reference. How else are you going to get something you bought back to your place? This doesn't seem weird. I'm not in or from, and have never been to, NYC though, so I'm probably missing something lol
Its an infrequent question you get if you dont own a car in the US. With mass transit generally being shit everywhere, but slightly less shit in cities, people who dont live in cities think moving things around is impossible, because a car is the only possibility that they are personally acquainted with.
Its not impossible, just vaguely awkward sometimes as this meme shows, which is a solid tradeoff for not having to deal with all the bullshit owning a car entails.
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My apologies to everyone the one time I needed to get a coffee table to my new apartment on 179st. I was a really broke student and it was too heavy to lug.
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You can have chairs delivered
What's the fun in that
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There is a Czech saying "Kdo židli má, bydlí": Who has a chair, lives (in the reside sense).
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It’s a common conversation though. I live in a big city and people who live in rural areas say this to me all the time. I just shrug my shoulders and say, “ya, good, live where makes you happy.”
Some of the rural people I know are extended family and if I take them at face value what they are essentially explaining sounds like some yet to be undefined personality disorder.
They all circle around a set of claims that amount to an inability to adhere to basic social skills that even the most neurodivergent person manages to perform.
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Its an infrequent question you get if you dont own a car in the US. With mass transit generally being shit everywhere, but slightly less shit in cities, people who dont live in cities think moving things around is impossible, because a car is the only possibility that they are personally acquainted with.
Its not impossible, just vaguely awkward sometimes as this meme shows, which is a solid tradeoff for not having to deal with all the bullshit owning a car entails.
Right. Think of all the few times you might need to buy something truly cumbersome and bulky that can’t realistically be brought home via mass transit. Now, think of how much it might cost to have that item delivered - a service readily available in cities.
Calculate up how much a car costs, insurance, fuel, maintenance, and parking, and to be fair, subtract mass transit costs.
Compare that to the rare delivery.
See if you’re better off, saving money, not having a car.
On the rare occasion you do want a car for long-distances not practical by air or other transit, rent one.
Source: lived in a major metro area. Car was a real burden having the expense of it, parking it, and having to be on watch all the time for street sweeping or snow days where you couldn’t park on the street. The subway was cheap, accessible, and far quicker than driving the vast majority of the time.
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If you live here you don't really go through Penn station. That's a major commuter hub.
I've lived here for years and only go there if I need to go to NJ transit for some reason (which isn't often).
That's like thinking all of NJ is Secaucus train station, or all of someplace else is just the airport. It's not representative.
“There is a homeless problem, look there”
“But if you don’t look you don’t see the problem”
Rents in NYC are rising higher than salaries, squeezing out the poorer segment of the population. This, between other symptoms, generates homelessness. That’s what I see in NYC.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]She put that thing down a tramp will immediately come sleep on it.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]We're not the same. I like being able to go on a hike after taking 20 steps from my front door. I like hearing and seeing new birds regularly from my window. I like walking my dog without suffocating on the smog of the Manhattan streets.
