New England or New York (New Haven, Fairfield: live, metro, places)

[desertsun41]

Originally Posted by bstnguy

I spend 2 days a week in NYC. I live in Boston, and have customers in NYC. I know first hand, that Boston is superior. By the way, where to you live? Northwest CT, thats right...nothing to brag about.

You sure are correct bstnguy. NYC is a dump. Nothing but human filing cabinets to house people. $2800 a month for a 250 sq ft room. The most filthest streets I ever seen. Pretzel cart merchants rolling the dough right on the sidewalk. Juliani. Hookers, bums. 11 million people jamb packed into such a tiny area. Jacob Javits Center where you drive into their parking garage and the sign says: Parking.....$23.50 per day maxumim allowed by law or $21.00 per hour. What a scam ! Yankee fans? Ug! Talk about arrogant and violent. Just wear a Boston shirt and walk into MSG or Yankee Stadium and see if you survive the night. Go Celtics !! Double parking? What do they call that odd and even day where you have to get out of bed at 4AM every other day to switch your car to the other side of the street?

I used to drive from central Jersey to Boston every 2 weeks or so just to see my Red Sox. I did that for years, especially when there was a weekend double header. And they sucked many of those years. I hated to leave and I am not a city person. I love Boston. There is something special about Fenway Park the Fenway faithfull say. I will never forget Dwight Evans coming up to me and chatting before the game. Yaz, Rico and Tiant. Great memories of Boston and I never lived there.

[jad2000]

Originally Posted by desertsun41

You sure are correct bstnguy. NYC is a dump. Nothing but human filing cabinets to house people. $2800 a month for a 250 sq ft room. The most filthest streets I ever seen. Pretzel cart merchants rolling the dough right on the sidewalk. Juliani. Hookers, bums. 11 million people jamb packed into such a tiny area. Jacob Javits Center where you drive into their parking garage and the sign says: Parking.....$23.50 per day maxumim allowed by law or $21.00 per hour. What a scam ! Yankee fans? Ug! Talk about arrogant and violent. Just wear a Boston shirt and walk into MSG or Yankee Stadium and see if you survive the night. Go Celtics !! Double parking? What do they call that odd and even day where you have to get out of bed at 4AM every other day to switch your car to the other side of the street?

I used to drive from central Jersey to Boston every 2 weeks or so just to see my Red Sox. I did that for years, especially when there was a weekend double header. And they sucked many of those years. I hated to leave and I am not a city person. I love Boston. There is something special about Fenway Park the Fenway faithfull say. I will never forget Dwight Evans coming up to me and chatting before the game. Yaz, Rico and Tiant. Great memories of Boston and I never lived there.

Vegas doesn't have hookers?

[JayCT]

desertsun41 - I hate to burst your bubble but Boston has many of the things you dislike about New York as well. Outragious housing and parking costs, hookers, bums, masses of people and obnoxious sports fans, Boston has all this as well. What happens to a fan who wheres a Yankee tee shirt at Fenway??? Same thing. Your memories of Boston are faded. It may not be as big as New york but it has many of the same features. Jay

[desertsun41]

Originally Posted by JayCT

desertsun41 - I hate to burst your bubble but Boston has many of the things you dislike about New York as well. Outragious housing and parking costs, hookers, bums, masses of people and obnoxious sports fans, Boston has all this as well. What happens to a fan who wheres a Yankee tee shirt at Fenway??? Same thing. Your memories of Boston are faded. It may not be as big as New york but it has many of the same features. Jay

Ok ok ok your probably right. I just felt like venting against dirty NY and growing up with sports fans not on my side.

Lets face it....any big city is the same. Just in a different place. I cant wait till I retire where a traffic jam is when a Horse and rider is on the street and 2 cars are held up behind it. But I will still love my Red Sox, Celtics and Patriots.

[bstnguy]

Very nicely out. I agree with your statement. I too love New York for what it generates for our economy. I just could never live there. I am a Bostonian at heart and will always be one. Bostonians are probably the proudest people in the country.

By the way, which way do most of the people at ESPN go? NY? Boston? I am always running into the big shots at your company up here at the Baseball Tavern.

[Rich Lee]

Originally Posted by bstnguy

Very nicely put. I agree with your statement. I, too, love New York for what it generates for our economy. I just could never live there. I am a Bostonian at heart and will always be one. Bostonians are probably the proudest people in the country.

By the way, which way do most of the people at ESPN go? New York? Boston? I am always running into the big shots at your company up here at the Baseball Tavern.

Many of the sports "talent," ESPN's term for on-air personalities, are from outside Connecticut. Also, most of the field personnel are independent contractors (freelancers) who don't live in Connecticut. Many of the support departments (Accounting, Finance, Human Resources) are comprised of local residents who are pretty much split.

New Yorkers, even years after leaving the city, always profess to being New Yorkers...

[Rich Lee]

Wow...what a game! The e*trade commercials were especially funny.

[bibit612]

Originally Posted by Rich Lee

Wow...what a game! The e*trade commercials were especially funny.

Yes it was the best 51 seconds of any superbowl I have seen over the years! And yes to the e-trade commercials...that baby will creep me more than the clown creeped the baby. Overall, the commercials were a disappointment. At LEAST the game was not! Great game even without the wardrobe accidents at half-time!

[ctman1987]

Umm yeah I going to have to chime in here as a proud New Yorker.

I grew up in New England and have spend considerable time in New York City and Boston but now I am a New Yorker (you get a totally differant sense of a city when you actually live in it - not in the suburbs). New York City and Boston are not comparable at all - the only thing they have in common is that they are located in the northeast.

Also desertsun ...your observations sure seem to reveal that you have only visited midtown...there is so much more to New York City then midtown from the Manhattan's Upper East Side and SoHo neighborhoods to Park Slope in Brooklyn and Riverdale in the Bronx.
New York City has a significant amount of history and its place as a major trading port allowed it to grow over the years to become larger then Boston and Philadelphia.

Today New York City is an international city like London and Paris. New York City is the center of business, the arts, theater, culture and education ( yes Boston may be called the center of education but come on NYC has NYU, Columbia, Fordham, CUNY, etc)...to name a few.

Finally the fact that real estate is still in high demand in New York City and retailers and businesses are still competiting to enter the New York City market in an economic slump shows just how great a city New York is...at a time when Boston continues to attract the amount of retail that New York has.

[reason180]

Originally Posted by desertsun41

NYC is a dump. Nothing but human filing cabinets to house people.

Take a drive through most residential areas of Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, or Staten Island and the landscape will be dominated by houses not apartment buildings.