New York City is for sellouts

NYC has an extremely wide range of "native types"

Also a lot of suburbanites are sons and daughters of native types -- particularly the ones from Jersey.

my dad was born in nyc

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n43/JKidd_05/BROOKLYN.gif

NYC has an extremely wide range of "native types"

That's true: gabbneb, Casuistry, JBR...

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.

Qualludes.

New York's soccerball team sold out to Red Bull

thats why the best way to determine which city is best is by seeing how awesome its sports teams are

xp to nabisco

is that was true then boston would be the best city and boston obv sux

i wish mpls had a soccerball team

No really,you can get Qualludes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Thunder

xp

i wanna MLS team

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.

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, October 17, 2008 4:14 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

HA you guys live in manhattan and work behind desks.

NYC is pretty expensive for what you get out of it.

Chicago is priced appropriately in the get-what-you-pay-for free-cell-phone sense

nyc is a pretty good deal compared to dc

FACED!

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

metro doesnt smell

subway doesnt make u swipe on the way out

subway costs $2 so you can watch a dude eat in front of you while another dude sleeps

alternatively sometimes it costs $2 so you can watch two guys breakdance on a moving train

eating where ever u want is everyones right as an american

Subway: Gets you more places.
Metro: Makes a cooler sound.

metro`s kinda beautiful

like a mausoleum almost...

Yeah, it has those awesome inside-of-a-whale stations

Subway aesthetic is also kinda played out imho

subway is the gr8est

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.

subway doesnt make u swipe on the way out

i still sometimes reflexively take out my metrocard on the way out ;__;

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.

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

if there are nathan's hot dogs in the grocery store, i couldnt care less what is being sold on the streets

Manhattan might be more expensive for what you get than those other cities, but not New York as a whole.

depends rather heavily on where in manhattan you are living.

That's true: gabbneb, Casuistry, JBR...

I forgot Alex in NYC.

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.

who are the native chicago people on ilx (born & raised w/in city limits)?

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

who are the native chicago people on ilx (born & raised w/in city limits)?

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.

("lived" = "grew up in," like pre-high school)

jaymc, do you know where i was born?
this is not a test.

i'm just curious.

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.

this would be word except my option in life has been apparently to return to this hellish robot womb every day, in order to perform my hellish robot duties, and then be exhumed into darkness so that I may recoup morale via those meager means my neighborhood makes available at such hours (read: playstation with doctor ben and lager)

and btw frankly any white person who expects some kind of big props for being born in the city limits of a major metropolis can kind of lick it, congratulations, you tried to be black and you were *squishes head* THIS CLOSE!!

i wish mpls had a soccerball team

http://pages.globetrotter.net/bb/pennants/nasl/MinnesotaKicks.jpg

I saw these guys play when I was a kid.