― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Asymmetric Cocktails (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
The pics are beautiful, but prove nothing. Anybody from any city can post pretty pictures of their home city. Sorry, but it's true.
Anyways, I didn't mean for this thread to be "people that live in NYC, defend it," but rather: Why is NYC is the default place for people to move to? I like NYC, it's great fun, but I've had just as much fun in every city I've lived in or visited. Do people just have no imagination?
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
I hate to say this because it sounds like I'm saying "lady, if you have to ask..." but if these photos prove nothing to you about why people would want to move here, I feel sorry for you.
Why is NYC is the default place for people to move to?
Live here for a while (and by "live here" I mean "actually take advantage of the place") and you'll understand why so many people move here.
― Asymmetric Cocktails (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:30 (twenty years ago) link
I really think this is just a very, very subjective thing. What a place looks like wouldn't even make my top ten list for why I would or wouldn't want to live somewhere, and not much of the content (like, what they're photos of, as opposed to how nice they look) would really sway me one way or the other. People want different things from where they are; if that weren't the case, the only things that would vary would be climate and cost of living.
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
(xpost--like I said, there is no way to describe in words why any of us live here besides the explanations already given, so we're using pretty pictures to help illustrate. None of us can speak for the specific people being asked about being as they aren't the ones replying to you)
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
I mean I'd hate to think you're implying that people who choose to live here have no imagination.
― Asymmetric Cocktails (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
Well, to be fair, NA, you did kinda spring this thread during the day when proud New Yawrkers are at work and can't go home to prepare Powerpoint slides and portfolios. :)
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:38 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, I always felt like the real sellouts are the people who move to Chicago instead of New York because it's "easier to make it." If that's the case, why not stay in Ohio, Missouri, Michigan, the Rockies, etc.?
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.cap.bnl.gov/nufact03/campus_lo2-020924c.jpg
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
Maybe they're more informed than you think?
― Asymmetric Cocktails (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Asymmetric Cocktails (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:45 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.jericbarnes.com/shp/columbia/images/large_columbia_statue.JPG
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
How do they necessarily lack imagination? NYC is well documented as great by a number of sources. So are some other cities, but arguably none as much as New York. So what imagination are they lacking? The imagination that will convince them that some other city is great when they've never heard anything great about it? Is it lack of imagination that causes people to go with a "sure win" instead of something more risky?
I'm moving to Seattle after living in New York and Nashville, but I don't think I'm any more imaginative now than when I wanted to move to NYC. Seattle was suggested to me by a few people who know me well as a place they thought I'd like, and I had started seriously considering moving there. I finally had a chance to visit it, and I did like it a lot, so I'm moving. But I don't think imagination had much to do with it at all.
― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
xpost for shit
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
I hear NYC has a huge demand for Ringo Starr impersonators.
― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:52 (twenty years ago) link
Fuck having a job in NYC, I'm not going to have one in approximately 4 months and it'll be wonderful.
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:00 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:00 (twenty years ago) link
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
Phil, yeah, I like that. Can I bring a guest on this move? Can I wear silver space shoes?
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
I think I need a cooling off period. I'm not reading this thread again until 3:45. That's 37 minutes from now.
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link
i need to find someone to move with me. i donut want to go all alone :(
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
I want to talk about living under the sea.
― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
Well for one thing, NYC is located at a convenient midpoint between London and Los Angeles (my second- and third-favorite cities).
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:14 (twenty years ago) link