I could never live in NYC
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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.
Yeah, I think you're being a bit hyperbolic, but I generally agree. I live about an hour from Manhattan (from the Holland, and then another hour to get through lololol), but I'm fifteen minutes from a reservoir that you can hike and boat, fifteen minutes from farms. My town is walkable, and I can walk to a hospital, grocery store, and library in, you guessed it, fifteen minutes. I'm an hour and change from the shore, about the same from the Poconos. I like having access to all the places, but I like to live in suburbia.
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I live in NYC and never leave the house now what
Boom, roasted.
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I wish my city had half the transportation of New York.
Wish granted, you have all the cars, but no trains or buses.
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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.
You ever get stuck in Penn after the last train leaves at like 150, and you have to wait til 527 to catch the train home? That's when it gets interesting.
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I would take half the restaurants.
Ah, I see what you did there...
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Okay so I saw someone yesterday also walking home with a chair, but my real question is who the fuck needs just one single dining room chair? Do y'all not have sets?
I mean, I don't even have a dining room so I guess who am I to talk but it was just confusing to me.
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Okay so I saw someone yesterday also walking home with a chair, but my real question is who the fuck needs just one single dining room chair? Do y'all not have sets?
I mean, I don't even have a dining room so I guess who am I to talk but it was just confusing to me.
Unless you have an apartment worth a few million, you don’t have room for a whole ass dining set
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Okay so I saw someone yesterday also walking home with a chair, but my real question is who the fuck needs just one single dining room chair? Do y'all not have sets?
I mean, I don't even have a dining room so I guess who am I to talk but it was just confusing to me.
Who says she just has one? She might be taking one chair a day home.
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Okay so I saw someone yesterday also walking home with a chair, but my real question is who the fuck needs just one single dining room chair? Do y'all not have sets?
I mean, I don't even have a dining room so I guess who am I to talk but it was just confusing to me.
Would you want to carry an entire dining room set while walking or taking the subway home?
It would be difficult to carry even just two non-folding chairs without inadvertently being an asshole to people around you, unless the sidewalks were dead.
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Smog hasn't been a problem in US cities since like the 60s...
I live about sixty miles east, and a mile above, Los Angeles. There’s a few spots on the road to my house that have a direct line of sight to the DTLA skyscrapers. Which I can actually see approximately 5 days a year, when specific wind conditions blow away all the smog.
The sky’s certainly less brown than it used to be, but it’s still brown.
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Would you want to carry an entire dining room set while walking or taking the subway home?
It would be difficult to carry even just two non-folding chairs without inadvertently being an asshole to people around you, unless the sidewalks were dead.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Could you imagine carrying home 3 chairs of a set one-at-a-time and finding out that they just stopped selling that style?
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I live about sixty miles east, and a mile above, Los Angeles. There’s a few spots on the road to my house that have a direct line of sight to the DTLA skyscrapers. Which I can actually see approximately 5 days a year, when specific wind conditions blow away all the smog.
The sky’s certainly less brown than it used to be, but it’s still brown.
That's fair, but my understanding is that Los Angeles is an extreme case rather than a representative example of a typical American city, in part because of its unfortunate location in a valley and in part because of its sprawl. The fact that pollution is particularly hard to control there is why California is legally uniquely able to apply for its own set of automobile pollution regulations that are stricter than the rest of the country.
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Weirdest thing I've brought on public transit:
Agreed, but at least the two chairs you brought provided a nice table for that plant.
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It's funny how you can immediately tell when someone has never been to a big city
I've been to New York 4 times and to new England many many times. Funny how YOU can't tell. Sometimes I like to say things that get people riled up. Like saying I like living in the city that I live in. I'm sorry I'm happy?
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I'm a little amused by the down votes.
Yes some cities have a lot of perks, no the air quality isn't as bad as the 60s, but pretending that taking the metro to the park is comparable to living in a forest is a little silly.
I'm amused too. People are offended that I prefer living in nature compared to a concrete jungle. That's my preference. Live where you want folks. I'm not your mommy.
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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
I had to go into CVS to escape the air in Manhattan. Granted I've only been to Manhattan and Brooklyn, those are "city" parts, which this post refers to.
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Smog hasn't been a problem in US cities since like the 60s...
Bad air quality still exists. Sorry I'm just not used to that quality of air. My bad?
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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.
One day some lady brought her full grocery store cart she took from No Frills on the bus. I think the driver was just too tired to argue.
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I had to go into CVS to escape the air in Manhattan. Granted I've only been to Manhattan and Brooklyn, those are "city" parts, which this post refers to.
That sounds psychosomatic but I'm not a professional. You take care of yourself.
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Bad air quality still exists. Sorry I'm just not used to that quality of air. My bad?
Air quality is getting worse everywhere thanks to wildfires and the like, but my point was that you don't look at a city like NYC or Boston and see an orange haze from the smog and leaded gasoline emissions anymore.
The biggest issues with cities largely come down to cars, and having grown up in a summer beach hotspot, I can tell you that it can be just as bad out in the countryside. From noise pollution to emissions to traffic, you can largely thank cars for all of it. Road noise is actually one of the loudest things in a city. In places that have limited access to cars, you can immediately tell the difference.
