I could never live in NYC
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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.
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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.
Los Angeles is an extreme case, but air pollution remains an urban problem. Emissions have been reduced, not eliminated.
It can still be a problem without being so visible as to limit your vision to less than a city block while the infirm non-hyperbolically suffocate to death.
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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 also don't get it.
Obviously they are not the same if one is comfortable in NYC, on the subway with a chair, and the other one is not.
Is this an idiom I don't understand? We are not the same? Is it like Kendrick Lamar saying "they not like us"?
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It's funny how you can immediately tell when someone has never been outside of a big city
Apparently you can't though..
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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.)
Here it's more like 40-200 eur per year for insurance and 60+ to rent for a day
But if you can get your shit done in an hour or 2, Bolt Drive or Citybee are prolly gonna cost you under 20.
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Here it's more like 40-200 eur per year for insurance and 60+ to rent for a day
But if you can get your shit done in an hour or 2, Bolt Drive or Citybee are prolly gonna cost you under 20.
I just checked the website of Citybee. That seems quite similar to the service I use actually.
The one here is called Mobility you pay by time and by kilometer. Around 2.50 CHF / h and 0.75 CHF / km, but it depends on the category of vehicle of course. I used it for about 3h and 50km for that airport trip.
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I just checked the website of Citybee. That seems quite similar to the service I use actually.
The one here is called Mobility you pay by time and by kilometer. Around 2.50 CHF / h and 0.75 CHF / km, but it depends on the category of vehicle of course. I used it for about 3h and 50km for that airport trip.
Ah yeah. When people say "rent" I still read it as Hertz/Avis/Sixt/Enterprise in my head lol
To be fair, anything over a day, these seem cheaper. But yeah, for a few hours, my preference is Bolt Drive as it's convenient and a local company unlike Citybee which I think is Lithuanian. It still serves as an alternative though
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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.
Truth be told I think they just let the passengers work it out. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTGKti2-X0
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Ah yeah. When people say "rent" I still read it as Hertz/Avis/Sixt/Enterprise in my head lol
To be fair, anything over a day, these seem cheaper. But yeah, for a few hours, my preference is Bolt Drive as it's convenient and a local company unlike Citybee which I think is Lithuanian. It still serves as an alternative though
Yeah for full days or long distances the older places can be cheaper. Also for vans for moving furniture.
I helped in a move once where they had gotten a van from Mobility. Suddenly we had to start hurrying with the loading and unloading because the cheapskate had reserved only minimal time, I think like two or three hours. That was the worst thing ever, as if moving furniture isn't a bad enough activity already, lol.
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Yeah for full days or long distances the older places can be cheaper. Also for vans for moving furniture.
I helped in a move once where they had gotten a van from Mobility. Suddenly we had to start hurrying with the loading and unloading because the cheapskate had reserved only minimal time, I think like two or three hours. That was the worst thing ever, as if moving furniture isn't a bad enough activity already, lol.
For short distances, Bolt Drive has very good van pricing actually. Anything longer, there's a mechanic in my hometown whose van has a big turbo setup and a subwoofer. Fast n loud piece of junk, feels like it's gonna fall apart, but he charges 25 euros a day and doesn't care how much you drive.
