NY = Unhappiest City
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- freedom0
When you repeatedly call yourself "the greatest city in the world", it just means you're trying to justify crappiness.
- It's not New Yorkers who say that repeatedly by the waymonospaced
- It's also the people headed to new york who are held in the gravitational pull of it's populationcannonball1978
- the one I hate is "the greatest nation on earth".CyBrainX
- HijoDMaite0
I just want to go for the photography.
- yurimon0
I am NYC, I seen it all, the changes. I'm old enough to be your papa for the lot of you...
- Do you like it?bainbridge
- aspects of it I like, some things I Love but in retrospect from the big picture, No.yurimon
- I try to get out of the city as much as possible. Learn from the rich who are happy to be in the city.yurimon
- If you do live here have a house in the mountains or by the beach.yurimon
- The energy of the city is for the young and foolish. Its become a meat market for the most part. So many choices reflects in the flakiness of the current youthyurimon
- flakiness of the current youth.yurimon
- Yes. But they are happy. That's the point.monospaced
- generally ill say optimistic type happy.. doesnt always last for everyone.yurimon
- yuri how old are you?ohhhhhsnap
- Actually no, most of them are not happy. They are blindly ambitious, but not happy.cannonball1978
- i remember when i met yurimon, was at cindsoo's apt, we had our first NT/QBN SMOKES!!e_p
- met robotron3k that day too.. we had sooooo much weed!!! and there were only 4 of us!!e_p
- opps it was pr2 and not you..
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- dbloc0
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- yurimon0
I once met a weed dealer who was putting himself through law school. even though I was not a smoker. I hung out. it was a bodega with expired food on the shelves he was more of delivery guy. 1 block from a police station. He bragged on police protection. 1 month later place was busted. never seen him after. 1 month later around the corner a fancy pizza joint opened up by italians. Something fishy cause there was full counter display of every pizza imaginable but not much clientele in an area coming back from the crack era... Then the answer came. The delivery boy had an expensive lexis with $1k rims and gold teeth... 1+2=I ♥ NY
- #struggleohhhhhsnap
- yurimon.. i met you at qbn's smoke out at cindy's apt.. where we all smoked weed!!e_p
- opps it was pr2 and not you..e_p
- dirtydesign0
Just got back from lunch.
The women too. Unreal.
- pinkfloyd0
There are TONS upon TONS of super hot women in NYC.
- excess of 2,000lbs worthdoesnotexist
- Yes. Today is amazing.CyBrainX
- with herpesyurimon
- hahapinkfloyd
- MrAbominable0
Rebrand...
NY:(
NY:C?
- whatthefunk0
I'm moving back to NJ to buy a house simply b/c I cannot afford property in NYC or surrounding burroughs and those available are shit. Also, the sales tax is a killer not to mention city/state tax. Pinkfloyd mentioned how difficult it is to try and go to movies, grocery shopping, or any other activity - it's just a pain it the ass. And yes, the produce and food in general is typically expired or of a lower quality. Most stores/bodegas will try to charge me more and more $ for the same product if I happen to frequent more than once in a week. Fuck this...
Most transplants are so mesmerized by the tall buildings that they cannot get out of the fucking way or off their cell phones and they are the ones paying extra for property and good causing all the prices to go up. I have a fantastic job but I'm moving to Jersey and I'll take the bus for 1 hour into the city, it takes me close to 45min anyway to take the train in from Brooklyn so why the fuck not.
I'll make my money here and go home where there are trees, politeness, less stress, and more honest people.
- totally, when I am ready for a real house, I'm heading outta manhattanmonospaced
- it's insane to actually live in this city forever, it's a waste. but being young and ambitious, it's the place to bemonospaced
- yes, my goal was/is to continue building my career here b/c it's the place to do thatwhatthefunk
- exactly.doesnotexist
- We're looking in Montclair and North East NJ - Glen Rock, Norwood, etc.whatthefunk
- doesnotexist - how long is your train ride from Montclair?whatthefunk
- ambush-iousyurimon
- 40 minutes to penn, I'm near the walnut st stop. love it out here. my last place was right next to WTCdoesnotexist
- NYC, good while young and developing your career, not ideal for raising familypinkfloyd
- I want to move to Fort Lee or around there.pinkfloyd
- raising family argument is total bullshit. country kids can get into more trouble than city kids.doesnotexist
- Try pushing a baby carriage down 5th avenuepinkfloyd
- The educational system here is horrendous unless you can afford the private schoolspinkfloyd
- Trust me. Jersey is where it's at! haha. Bring it on home boys.stoplying
- sureshot0
never been to NYC. Been to Utah though. That was pretty depressing.
- Utah! QBN capitol of the werldORAZAL
- Provo, UT is the happiest city in the country!sarahfailin
- monospaced0
So the CDC asks people if they're "satisfied with their lives" and New Yorkers say "no" and they conclude theyre unhappy? That's a bullshit conclusion if ice read one.
All New Yorkers are ambitious and wouldn't get out of bed unless they had some shred of in satisfaction. We work hard and play hard and it's never good enough because this place is already so great.
I have lived in some amazing cities and NYC makes me happier than ever.
- TLDR: Can't hear your hate over the sound of my FREEDOMORAZAL
- Its a judgement overtone of anger happinessyurimon
- do you have an italian accent when you say this?yurimon
- Bitch please!ORAZAL
- short version: satisfaction isn't the same as happinessmonospaced
- nyers are never satisfied, that's why we work so hard, and that's why we're actually happymonospaced
- self perpetuated slavery?yurimon
- NYC is my fav city in the world. Most of the people [I] know that live there aren't WINNERS though.ORAZAL
- I'm probably strolling around the wrong hoods.ORAZAL
- shut your fuckin' mouth, yurimon, seriouslymonospaced
- you have your opinions i have mine. City is not so great but i could pull a tony robins and suppress the truthyurimon
- "self perpetuated slavery" so true.freedom
- that slavery line...are you idiots actually imiplying it's unique to NYC? fuck it's hte whole worldmonospaced
- "All New Yorkers are ambitious..." how about some?stoplying
- Mostmonospaced
- GeorgesIV0
not to be THAT guy,
but I'm thinking that they are sad because they've had to rebuild the city hundred of times,
Aliens, asteroids, monsters, even fuckn Godzilla, that kinda have to grind your happiness to shreds,> dead serious here
- < Fucking aliens, always fucking shit up. I think they have a contract with building companies. #Conspiracysem
- colin_s0
i think it all depends on what makes you happy. i'm looking forward to moving to new york next year, but when i was 22 i turned down a job there because it just wasn't right for me at the time. (now 31.)
but i mean, if you want space, or something other than anonymity, it's probably not the place for you. then again, i'm coming at this as an outsider, but i dunno. aren't new yorkers generally unhappy anyway?
you could probably get a survey of how happy residents of arizona or florida are, but would you trust that shit?
- cannonball19780
Im born and raised in NY. The "New Yorkers work hard and play hard" explanation is bullshit. You are either young and can stomach a lot of shit the lifestyle force feeds you, you are older and sucking someones dick, or you are born rich and staying in the area for dick sucking. The idea that NYC is in any way some social pinnacle is boucht into and then perpetrated by the suckers. There is a huge world oustide the boroughs.
- sorry about the work hard play hard thing... i really meant like, work hard and enjoy the good stuffmonospaced
- <drinking the cool aidCALLES
- monospaced0
^ I'm none of those things, and I love this place. I'm in my young 30s, there's no shit lifestyle being force fed to me whatsoever, and I'm neither sucking someone's dick nor born rich. I worked my ass off, got a great job in the city, and it's enough to be more than comfortable and plan a life. The city has a ton to offer, especially for those who enjoy food exploration and culture and music, as you very well know. I also love that this city is packed with FREE stuff to do. Shit, just going out and about on a nice day is like going to an amusement park.
- so, who's dick are you sucking?GeorgesIV
- kekGeorgesIV
- I guess anyone who works for someone else is doing some sort of dick sucking work, regardless of location or citymonospaced
- mono - where are you from originally/ or where did you grow up?whatthefunk
- Santa Barbara, CAmonospaced
- bo back.ohhhhhsnap
- why?monospaced
- CyBrainX0
I love it here and plan to never leave. However, my gf and I don't plan on having children and don't have the urge to buy a house and live in the burbs. I grew up that way and it's out of my system.
- <True New Yorkerpinkfloyd
- Thank you.CyBrainX
- I felt that way for many years. Then I didn't anymore.cannonball1978
- pr20
I lived in NYC for 17 years.
Truth is the city needs more guys like you - white Americans who's information come from the movies. White so that you have a well paying job and the landlord doesn't feel bad about overcharging you on rent; American so that you don't have immigrant connections (that cut the rent by 1/3 to 1/2); and uninformed so that you go straight for what NYC is not - Manhattan - the city you know from the movies.After sometime in NYC you realize that Manhattan is a ghetto of overprices bodegas and premium priced but mediocre quality restaurants and move to the real New York: Brooklyn or Queens (also the Bronx). Then, since by now you know an immigrant or two you get an immigrant hookup on your rent and start living well as your rent is cheap (around 1k-1.5k), your local bodega is cheap (about 50-70% less than Manhattan), the good is delicious and semi-cheap and you still have this nice white-American well paying job.
- You also live in an immigrant apartment that never gets repaired.cannonball1978
- (writing from the never-repaired apt which has its walls renovated s we speak...)pr2
- lolcannonball1978
- Youtube that shit and repair yourselfpinkfloyd
- It's not done till its done my friend. "Renovations" can go on for a long time.cannonball1978
- cannonball19780
Sorry im jaded this morning. But yeah i stand by many of my comments. Unless you have some sort of executive privilege you will always be playing catch-up in that city, especially as a creative professional. The lifestyle is it's own reward.
- "especially as a creative?" Where are there more creative jobs?CyBrainX