NY = Unhappiest City
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- pinkfloyd0
I was raised in NYC, and also lived in the suburbs. There's pros and cons to both areas. The biggest con for me about NYC is property is too expensive, and the one's available doesn't have a backyard, patio and isn't spacious as something i'd find in the suburbs.
It's really like a crowded fishtank which is a stressor after a while. I was living by Madison Square Garden, and I didn't like going out to get groceries because there'd be a mob of people i'd have to walk through just to buy breakfast or whatever. Walking the dogs was a bitch.
The pros of NYC is the diversity, and access to the best foods and shopping. There's more opportunities here, in a perfect world, I'd have the ideal job and home in a diverse suburb so that's why i'm checking out NJ.
- freedom0
Do all the people on minimum wage and retail live in Queens or Jersey? How do they even apply for leases?
- low income housing for a lot of themdirtydesign
- either live in the bronx or projects, rest with parents or not sure you can even rent a room.yurimon
- Even people who work for like Apple stores?freedom
- i would assume apple store isn't minimum wage. brooklyn, queens and harlem are somewhat affordable.dirtydesign
- dirtydesign0
New York City is the definition of a love/hate relationship.
- pinkfloyd0
Average NYC social scene:
"How much do you pay in rent?!"
"Well, actually I found a good deal"
Then they spread herpes
- lol, what?!Gnash
- < or what do you do, where do you live? then how muchyurimon
- then spread herpespinkfloyd
- hawhatthefunk
- yurimon0
- bitter much? sorry the city spat you out on your assmonospaced
- I got bit of an awakening.,. sorry. maybe its best you stay ignorant.yurimon
- then you can live in nyc foreveryurimon
- you don't know shit about me, don't get all righteous about awakening, you are not more special than the rest of usmonospaced
- I never said i was special. but I know the difference between convincing myself of a rat race or reality of the human conditionyurimon
- its all good survival in a system of designed scarcity. thats what its all about.yurimon
- freedom0
Work your ass off, fight to get impressive clients, win awards = there's still a million people + richer than you with nicer townhouses and having more fun.
- monospaced0
Executive privilege? Catch up to what? I know you're feeling jaded, but what you're saying simply doesn't apply to everyone you've lumped in there.
Anyway, why the fuck am I defending NYC? I'm not from here, I've only lived here 6 years. Is it better than San Francisco...yeah, to me it is, I'm happier here than I've ever been.
Happier than ever but New York has taught me to never be satisfied. Maybe that's what this city's all about... it's a place for people who aren't satisfied, who are always hungry for more, regardless of what they have. It's a city of ambition, from what I can see.
Sorry for the rant. Also having one of those mornings. I hate the muggy summers on this coast.
- Fair enoughcannonball1978
- I hear you though. It's a rough place... I'm from a smaller beautiful green city that's connected to nature.monospaced
- YOU MAD?utopian
- :D)utopian
- Never satisfied? Nice life.freedom
- Can one be happy and unsatisfied at the same time? By hunger you mean mice in a maze?yurimon
- I think the unsaticiefide thing relates to material facts that your rent is going to go up. and if you want to go out n eatyurimon
- its going to be expensive.yurimon
- no, not about food... more about things like a retirement and savings for kids' college... buying a housemonospaced
- NY offers me a lifestyle that allows me to do that, and the game of saving and winning is fun... I'm never fully satisfiedmonospaced
- Hows you're spiritual growth in all this winning of savings? Hows the game in the long term when society falls apart?yurimon
- It's fine thank you. And yours?monospaced
- And i get blamed for being vagueyurimon
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- necromation0
Had to work out there for 2 months... A month in and I was going batshit. All hype no substance now... I'll take my fair city of London any day of the week.