New York City is for sellouts

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.

playstation with doctor ben and lager

this btw is really an excellent way to relax and decompress, I just wish my favorite pizza joint would deliver after 11pm (the hours are an issue with DC I will not deny. however, just because it's always open doesn't mean it's good. You know who you are.*

*TOWNS WITH BIG MUSIC SCENES.

oh i thought that meant papa john's.

sell outs man dont they know its all about thea rt art

;) ;)

ever since the late night fried chicken place closed down, late night dining just hasn't been the same here in pros. heights.

oh right, new york is so serious about their pizza you actually let papa johnses exist all over the place. Funk dat.

I will never stop repping for DC as the best-kept pizza secret in all of this major metro area culture wars

hahahahahaha goddamn i will eat shitty pizza anytime, but i'll only buy shitty pizza if it's all that's open.

the secret of pizza is that you make it yourself and it rulez and is mad cheap.

and you can put ANYTHING ON IT!K@&*(!&WS

I try that but really when you add it all up, even with tip, the 3-5 topping specials around here are regularly more economical than DIY. Should probably point out that I am too concerned with stuff like my cat and video games and internet bullshit to learn how to properly handle dough. There is a convenience factor, kind of like not owning a car.

my cat likes it when i hang out in the kitchen. he likes to eat when there are people around. i have to encourage him sometimes, tell him to "show me what a good eater" he is. annnnyway.

my cat is a tubby guts and I had to put him on the catkins diet. I am really not looking forward to the next litter exchange.

i make my pizzas with those boboli prefab crusts

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

No. My knowledge of your early life begins here:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/april2600-outside.jpg