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Dude it sounds like you have never left the Bay Area. Please take a trip to NYC and I guarantee you would regret creating this thread. NYC is just on a totally and completely different level than Bay Area. Don't feel bad, all other cities/metro areas are on a much lower level than NYC.
Dude it sounds like you have never left the Bay Area. Please take a trip to NYC and I guarantee you would regret creating this thread. NYC is just on a totally and completely different level than Bay Area. Don't feel bad, all other cities/metro areas are on a much lower level than NYC.
Yes, I have left the bay area. I've been to:
IL (Chicago)
IN (Gary)
FL (Miami & Gainesville)
DC
OK (OKC)
MO (KC)
MD (Baltimore)
NV (Las Vegas)
AZ (Phoenix)
VA
and NYC when I was five. I've been in every region of the country other than the south unless you count FL or northern VA.
How many of you have ventured out to the west coast? I'm assuming you have because of your username.
What would be more reasonable, though still unfair in ways, would be to at least include the bits of Jersey right across the river (as one of the main airports and much of the shipping for NYC itself occurs there) along with Westchester County and the rest of Long Island. These places are as strongly tied, if not more so, to NYC as the Bay Area counties are to each other.
IL (Chicago)
IN (Gary)
FL (Miami & Gainesville)
DC
OK (OKC)
MO (KC)
MD (Baltimore)
NV (Las Vegas)
AZ (Phoenix)
VA
and NYC when I was five. I've been in every region of the country other than the south unless you count FL or northern VA.
How many of you have ventured out to the west coast?
I had spent a good two decades in the West Coast hopping from (mostly) Los Angeles to pretty much every major metro on the West Coast. I live in NYC now.
What would be more reasonable, though still unfair in ways, would be to at least include the bits of Jersey right across the river (as one of the main airports and much of the shipping for NYC itself occurs there) along with Westchester County and the rest of Long Island. These places are as strongly tied, if not more so, to NYC as the Bay Area counties are to each other.
Then include them. It doesn't make much of a difference as NYC is obviously the center of these areas you mention. The difference between the NY metro and the bay area is that SF is not the center of the bay... SF, Oakland and SJ are all the centers of their respective regions but they form a cohesive region that shares enough similarities that they should be grouped together (the bay area). The only similarities that these other areas you mention share with NYC is that NYC is where they work.
I had spent a good two decades in the West Coast hopping from (mostly) Los Angeles to pretty much every major metro on the West Coast. I live in NYC now.
So... does this make me the official authority?
It would certainly make you an authority on LA.
I'm not claiming to be an authority on NYC... many of you, however, are claiming to be enough of authorities on the bay that you don't feel the need to actually make the argument for why NYC > the bay. The first 3 pages of this thread were nothing more than east coasters saying "yup, NYC's better."
I'm not claiming to be an authority on NYC... many of you, however, are claiming to be enough of authorities on the bay that you don't feel the need to actually make the argument for why NYC > the bay. The first 3 pages of this thread were nothing more than east coasters saying "yup, NYC's better."
Well, several months in the Bay Area and relatives and friends there. How about that? Shouldn't we be automatically suspicious of anything you say about NYC? I mean, how would you know not really having spent time there, right?
The only similarities that these other areas you mention share with NYC is that NYC is where they work.
And where they live and move around. And where there family members are. And where they get their kicks. And what sports teams they root for. And what channels/stations they watch and listen to.
Well, several months in the Bay Area and relatives and friends there. How about that? Shouldn't we be automatically suspicious of anything you say about NYC? I mean, how would you know not really having spent time there, right?
Same reason you do... have relatives there.
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