I could never live in NYC
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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.
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When you nutted but she still sucking
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“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.
They said the problem was "widespread". I'm saying it's not like everywhere you look, but it feels worse than it is if you only go to the high traffic areas where homeless people go to beg for help.
Cost of living is rising higher than salaries everywhere. This isn't unique to New York.
The fact that homeless people exist is a poor reason to avoid New York, in my view. People act like you're going to be wrestling with the homeless every day.
We should do more than ignore the homeless, but that's a separate conversation.
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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.
Not counting nice walks in prospect Park, I can get on the metro north train and go on a variety of hikes. It's not 20 steps, but I also get all the other benefits of a city.
Also Manhattan isn't known for smog, and there is a lot more to New York than Manhattan. Go look at like park slope or Astoria
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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.
It's funny how you can immediately tell when someone has never been to a big city
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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
I think it's because... "rural" people who shit on NYC, yet have never set foot in a modern American city, will hear shit on Fox News and literally believe that the NYC subway is a warzone for rival vagrants to fight to the death, and there's no way you'd be able to transport something like that without it being stolen, or broken, etc.
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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.
My dude never left the fucking train station
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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.
Last time I rented a car to get my sister home from the Airport a little more comfortably after a long flight, she was worried about me spending too much just for that.
I had to put it in perspective for her: The rent with fuel was around 45 CHF. One year of insurance for a normal car alone would be about 450 CHF. Never mind any of the other costs.
And I don't even rent a car 10 times a year! (Unless you also count when I rent one for work, but that's charged to the workplace of course.)
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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.
I'm from the country side and I very much like easy access to nature, but New York is a great city, especially with all the parks! The subway is bomb
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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.
Smog hasn't been a problem in US cities since like the 60s...
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I could never live in NYC… the homelessness problem is too widespread in pretty much all of US cities.
The homelessness epidemic is a problem everywhere in the US. You just notice it in cities because of the population density.
Cape Cod, the famous summer vacation hotspot south of Boston, has the highest rates of drug addiction and homelessness in the entire state. The same is largely true of any vacation area, actually. They often have the highest rates in their state due to high CoL and poor job opportunities outside of low wage jobs in the tourism industry (all of which are seasonal jobs as well, meaning they close when the tourists leave).
But out of sight, out of mind.
