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
Anyway, this thread got rather touchy. Who knew?
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:17 (twenty years ago) link
In fact, I can totally understand it if one might be tired of defending one's home locale. Lord knows how many times I've had to explain to incredibly ignorant people that Texas is a wonderful state, that we are modern, that we have all the comforts of living in any other state in the U.S., that we aren't the way we're depicted on TV and in the movies, etc. One of the few moments when I was moved to cry in deepest anger was when I was watching the episode of "Coach" supposedly set in my city (San Antonio, for those not paying attention *wink*), that was filled with all of these horrid and humiliating stereotypes of what the city was supposed to be like instead of anything even remotely resembling what the city really is like. I do realize that yes, this is a sitcom, and yes, they are bound to do this, but imagine being younger and not living in this city. Imagine being influenced by what you watch on TV in regards to what your opinions and thoughts of a particular place is, and having nothing but horrible old and decayed stereotypes that essentially add up to "oh, avoid this backwards place" thoughts. It really hurts. It really hurts me every time I see something on TV or in a movie that shows Texas in a negative light, because we have had so few opportunities in the past to have it shown in a positive light OR EVEN IN JUST A REGULAR, TRUTHFUL LIGHT. To me, it's just as if there was a movie that was released and the central female figure was this huge, cartoonish, firey Latina maid who sang mariachi songs and said "Madre de Dios" every half minute, and who had that ridiculous frilly off-the-shoulders blouse and wore horrendously bright red lipstick, and this creature was presented as a Real, True Latina.
*ahem* Many sorries. I digress. Just had some issues to work out.
Anyway, if you're a huge fan of NYC, good for you. If you're a huge fan of another location, good for you. Just try to keep your mind open to the fact that there are other locations out there with their own fans and their own good points, and that there are people EVERYWHERE who wouldn't give up their OWN locations for all the money in the world. This goes for both sides here.
― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link
Don't mind me. Am just going through a really touchy period. Thanks.
― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
!!
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link