LAST TIME I CHECKED
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Que's challenging NYC disses are so skewed and sideways that I don't even have a response to any of them! I dunno. It's, you know, a city. A particularly large and teeming and vigorous one. It is not, in the end, a fundamentally different sort of entity from other cities, including less-large and less-teeming ones that are cheaper and more relaxing. There are differences in character, certainly, but you talk about it long enough and just becomes ... whatever.
Besides, not to get all class-analytical here, but most of us talking here, and (I'm guessing) most of the types of people we associate with in cities, are all post-collegiate cosmopolitans who don't come from that city anyway, am I right? New York, L.A., Chicago, all populated by young people from the same suburban zones. Would things seem different if we discussed cities in terms of their true "native" types? I'm not sure I could decide between NYC's and Chicago's -- might lean toward Chicago's!
― nabisco, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link
most of us talking here, and (I'm guessing) most of the types of people we associate with in cities, are all post-collegiate cosmopolitans who don't come from that city anyway, am I right? New York, L.A., Chicago, all populated by young people from the same suburban zones
most of us
― gabbneb, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
nabisco. . . i was just clowning around with everything i said on this thread. just some friday lol clowning, not serious, etc etc
― Mr. Que, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
see what happens when u insult nabiscos city
― max, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
he posts multiple paragraphs in a calm and measured tone
NYC has an extremely wide range of "native types"
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Also a lot of suburbanites are sons and daughters of native types -- particularly the ones from Jersey.
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
my dad was born in nyc
― max, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n43/JKidd_05/BROOKLYN.gif
― joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
That's true: gabbneb, Casuistry, JBR...
― jaymc, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha calm and measured because I didn't get them at all! Which I guess was the joke('s on me).
xpost yes, NYC probably has a few more than Chicago, just on the numbers. I just ... conversations about cities I'm in usually tend to be about what kind of lifestyle they provide to or draw out of post-collegiate non-native types (like me and lots of the people I talk to); they could sound really different, is what I'm saying.
― nabisco, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Qualludes.
― NewBeefLover, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
New York's soccerball team sold out to Red Bull
― big louie moilolnen (dan m), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
thats why the best way to determine which city is best is by seeing how awesome its sports teams are
― max, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
xp to nabisco
is that was true then boston would be the best city and boston obv sux
― joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i wish mpls had a soccerball team
― the valves of houston (gbx), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
No really,you can get Qualludes.
― NewBeefLover, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Thunder
xp
― big louie moilolnen (dan m), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i wanna MLS team
― the valves of houston (gbx), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Unfort for gbx, the most recent candidate cities for new MLS teams are Atlanta, Montreal, Miami, Ottawa, Portland, St Louis, and Vancouver -- seven bids for only two teams. Final announcement by end of March.
― Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
― gabbneb, Friday, October 17, 2008 4:14 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark
HA you guys live in manhattan and work behind desks.
― ian, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
NYC is pretty expensive for what you get out of it.
― TOMBOT, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Chicago is priced appropriately in the get-what-you-pay-for free-cell-phone sense
― TOMBOT, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
nyc is a pretty good deal compared to dc
FACED!
― mr. cool (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
DC may not know how to dress itself or be an exciting place to film a movie, but at least we don't have a vote, like you whores. And our hot dog stands still sell actual hot dogs instead of whatever the hell is up there on the streets in wherever you live, person I am berating
― TOMBOT, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
metro doesnt smell
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Friday, 17 October 2008 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
subway doesnt make u swipe on the way out
― mr. cool (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
subway costs $2 so you can watch a dude eat in front of you while another dude sleeps
― TOMBOT, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
alternatively sometimes it costs $2 so you can watch two guys breakdance on a moving train
― TOMBOT, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
eating where ever u want is everyones right as an american
― mr. cool (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Subway: Gets you more places.Metro: Makes a cooler sound.
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
metro`s kinda beautiful
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Friday, 17 October 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
like a mausoleum almost...
― mr. cool (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, it has those awesome inside-of-a-whale stations
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Subway aesthetic is also kinda played out imho
subway is the gr8est
― max, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I do love the metro, esp the escalator at Dpont Circle and how on a sunny day it's basically symbolically departing the womb for your new life/greener pastures (ie a place where you can smoke). I like a little rebirth in my daily life.
― Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Friday, 17 October 2008 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i still sometimes reflexively take out my metrocard on the way out ;__;
― gabbneb, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't actually understand, like, at all, the whole "nyc is more expensive for what you get" argument. mainly because it is not actually significantly more expensive than the other cities we are talking about, imo.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 17 October 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
our hot dog stands still sell actual hot dogs instead of whatever the hell is up there on the streets in wherever you live, person I am berating
^otm
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
if there are nathan's hot dogs in the grocery store, i couldnt care less what is being sold on the streets
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Friday, 17 October 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Manhattan might be more expensive for what you get than those other cities, but not New York as a whole.
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
depends rather heavily on where in manhattan you are living.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 17 October 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I forgot Alex in NYC.
― jaymc, Saturday, 18 October 2008 02:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, but it depends rather heavily where in ANY city you are living, and on the whole Manhattan is more expensive. I mean I'm pretty sure New York is still the overall highest rent city in the country.
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Saturday, 18 October 2008 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
who are the native chicago people on ilx (born & raised w/in city limits)?
― velko, Saturday, 18 October 2008 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
it is not actually significantly more expensive than the other cities we are talking about, imo.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, October 17, 2008 12:54 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
^^^ if you have included chicago in your "other cities" then you are utterly, spectacularly wrong
― the valves of houston (gbx), Saturday, 18 October 2008 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Only ones I know for sure are Phil-Two and K3rry K3an3. I can never remember the deal with deej and Amateurist -- I know both went to high school in Evanston, but I think both lived within city limits at some point, too.
― jaymc, Saturday, 18 October 2008 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link