New York City is for sellouts

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I spent the last week in NY it was kind of fun but mostly sad

Also every restaurant I ate at was worse than the average restaurant in Denver

sleepingbag: a dipshit at life, not just at posting

shoulda asked for resto tippos

with so many restaurants in the city it's not too hard to end up in a crappy one but also just as easy to end up somewhere really good. xxp

that box looks lame

pvm in screenname character but yeah of course i agree

NYC on the whole has a surprisingly large number of mediocre and overpriced restaurants. I agree Denver is more the kind of place where you can just walk into an average affordable restaurant and get a good meal, whereas NYC you really have to know where to go and often be prepared to spend.

NYC makes me sad too fwiw, at least Manhattan does. I enjoy not working there anymore.

Denver is a great food city tbh!

To be fair, the music + comedy we saw was leagues better than what's typically on offer locally. And for my buddy I went with, visiting Harlem gave him an experience probably akin to what I'd get if I went to Israel (guessing here). But overall the city seemed a lot less impressive then the last time I was there (around 10 years ago) for reasons both objective + subjective.

NYC has a surprisingly large number of mediocre and overpriced tourists

People who wear boating shoes or flip flops: what the fuck are you thinking

I love flips flops. I can walk miles in them. But in the city you kind of want to be able to run away.

more like a psychological torture chamber than a city, really

Gotta find the city within the city

blehhhhhhh

there are many people here who i love. there are many places here that are great. but honestly, so much about this place wears on me.

i renewed my lease though

omg, i totally forgot about that Beware the Boys song. I just started playing it and we are dying laughing.

This is what happens when I just skim these threads. I should maybe re-read it at some point.

treeship, what happened?

NA you ought to be glad you're rid of such shallow people.
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yeeowch

i'm just whining. the proximate cause of my problem is some transit nightmare and then a horrible cab driver who drove in circles for a half hour before finding the williamsburg bridge. but in general, i've felt worn down by the work culture at my job and also i find that when i'm in the city--especially manhattan--i feel this kind of constant, low level anxiety and i'm sick of it

xp

yeah treesh I wish you'd expound. I started a "is NYC dead?" thread a few months ago and I remember you being a bit critical of city life then, too. Genuinely curious which aspects get to you the most.
xp

what's the root of the anxiety?

Manhattan has too many tourists, too many people. I used to get anxiety having to tell a cab driver to take me to wburg so I always preferred to take the train. I like NYC but I never miss it when I am away. (except for the food and being able to pet lots of dogs).

xpost I think this thread started (by NA) right after that big FAP in NYC over the fourth of July. I wonder what happened.

xp i think i just wasn't made to be in that close proximity to that many strangers every day. which is a shitty thing to say, but i think it's true.

obviously weekends in williamsburg, greenpoint and fort greene (my haunts) are great. but even then, i sometimes wish i just lived somewhere more anonymous.

if i could work in brooklyn i think i would be happier. something about subway commuting just feels like i am descending into hell every morning.

You should move to Queens. I felt a lot more relaxed after a decade in williamsburg, even though I was living in a really lowkey area anyway. Some Canadian who had just moved to williamsburg once told me that he loved the L Train because it was like a cocktail party. The trains are terrible.

I worked in Brooklyn a couple of times. For 2-3 years I could walk to work easily. It was soooo amazingly great to never have real need to go into the city.

that's a good tip. yeah, maybe i should just prioritize "working in brooklyn" when i look for new jobs. it seems strange but it might make a huge difference. it truly is manhattan that i dislike--it feels like a giant mall, but like one where they locked the doors at night on black friday so everyone is trapped inside.

I don't even know what you do but quitting jobs is one of my passions.

yerac someday i would like to see a list of all the places you've lived

definitely feeling the nyc tiresomeness lately

Technically my place of residence has been in nyc since the early 2000s.

nyc is for BUYERS

I am outta time here

treesh otm new york sucks

and a lot of my recurring anxieties here are commuting on the subway-related too

morbs, are you really leaving?

The subway is so brittle. I was working last fall for a couple of months with a terrible commute and it distinctly would change once some event like the start of school or a cold snap happened. I would leave almost 45 minutes ahead of time so I could just read and not stress.

NYC sucks for sure. I lived in Brooklyn for a while 25+ years ago and it sucked then. I’m happy as hell living in Jersey and only going into NYC once or twice a month (tonight being one of those times).

Yerac I am literally 3-4 months from running out of money, at which point I will either move into my friend's basement, start living on credit, or go to my sister's in CT.

yeah but is it a new kind of suck, it the old, classic hectic/stressful/loud/lonely kind of suck. did it suck less, say, in the 90s?

(first 'it' should be 'or', sorry)

Some things were bad in the '90s, but you could live here alone if you weren't an investment banker.

The primary new drawbacks (aside from nearly every bar/institution/eatery I liked in 1995 being gone) are the deterioration of mass transit and millions of phone-staring morons impeding my walking.

The cinema choices are better than ever, however.

don't live on credit. It will will be even more impossible after. Take the kindness of friends or your sister.

xpost i just found after the fact that enid's closed. I didn't completely love it but now it makes sense why people have been talking about that camel for the last couple of weeks.

The phone staring morons are everywhere.

but it matters more when the byways are mobbed.

I would die of boredom in CT inside a year.

i remember elvis telecom, some years ago, remarking on how there was less jaywalking in nyc than he'd remembered. but it was Because of the Phones