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This guy sounds like he can't stand diversity or anyone who is not like him. He's just not used to what we have here in NY. You know what? I live on an extremely diverse slightly upper middle class street in Queens. People are from Hong Kong, Columbia, Argentina, Greece, Trinidad, and America - are Irish American, Italian American, etc. within about a 15 house spread!
Is my point that I like this? No, as a matter of fact I wish to death I could finally live around mostly people from my background. We would be able to have conversations based on familiar experiences.
So, I do not condemn the poster. He just misses where he came from. He's being honest.
I still remember how the city looked the first time I took a cab from the airport to my new conapt in what was a major open air heroin market on the upper, upper west side. The cold December night, steel shutters down over all the storefronts, trash in the street. NYC looked like the place you go to die. Now when I get back to the city after time away, I feel like dropping down to my knees in front of Penn Station and kissing the asphalt of 7th Avenue. The rest of this benighted nation is a vast warren of freeways and Walmarts.
"The rest of this benighted nation is a vast warren of freeways and Walmarts.[/quote]
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It most certainly is NOT. Hrumph! <g> Seriously, I have lived in absolutely LOVELY sections of New England and it is still quaint, gorgeous, charming and not filled with freeways and Walmarts.
You just have not been to the right places.
And I am a native New Yorker, talking here! I do NOT love NYC like you do and if I leave someday I will never visit again.
This guy sounds like he can't stand diversity or anyone who is not like him. He's just not used to what we have here in NY. You know what? I live on an extremely diverse slightly upper middle class street in Queens. People are from Hong Kong, Columbia, Argentina, Greece, Trinidad, and America - are Irish American, Italian American, etc. within about a 15 house spread!
Is my point that I like this? No, as a matter of fact I wish to death I could finally live around mostly people from my background. We would be able to have conversations based on familiar experiences.
So, I do not condemn the poster. He just misses where he came from. He's being honest.
I don't condemn him either, but he needs to move to a state that doesn't attract immigrants. NYC and the east coast in general have always been magnets for them historically. Once established they move to other parts of the country (usually first or second generation).
I sympathize with most of your post, but, my friend, you think that HUNTING!!!! IS ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR?
To go and out and hunt down a defenseless animal for the sport (and don't tell me you use the meat - it's all a rationalization for the FUN of KILLING a defenseless animal) is truly sick behavior, very immoral and cruel...and you get the point.
I don't condemn him either, but he needs to move to a state that doesn't attract immigrants. NYC and the east coast in general have always been magnets for them historically. Once established they move to other parts of the country (usually first or second generation).
Yes. Maybe he's just venting his shock that NY is nothing like where he came from. He doesn't sound like he f fits in, does he?
Thank you! I am not a member of PETA (don't like them), but I am a member of several animal protection organizations that are trying, against the meanies of this world, to protect wildlife from hunters and their cruel behavior.
(Humane Society of the United States, Defenders of Wildlife, The Fund for Animals, etc.)
NYC can be an adjustment for someone from a smaller, more laid back place. While people here are friendly, it does seem to take more time to establish a casual acquaintance type of rapport that leads to friendship.
OP, my suggestion would be to pursue fishing. As NYAnnie mentioned, there are places to fish in the NYC area. My dad did most of his in Queen & Brooklyn. He'd get up at 4am to get there early. Sometimes he'd go out on party boats from Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. See if there are any fishing clubs you can join. Also, having grown up in the outer boroughs, my experience has been that outer borough/suburban people can be a bit more approachable and friendly than people in Manhattan. You may be able to make some friends through fishing/fishing trips.
Another socializing avenue is to see if your college/university has an alumni club in NYC. Many do. They organize events like happy hours and tailgates at football games. You'll have the alma mater in common and the social culture may be more like what you're used to
If you still feel the same way after a year or so, then you may want to ask for a transfer to someplace you'll be happier or find a job in one of those cities/towns.
If your not supposed to eat animals then why are they made of meat?
Not eating animals, being a vegan, is not what I was talking about, although I deeply admire people who do not eat or use animal products.
What I was talking about was the sport of hunting. People can give me the long boring tired line all they want about how they kill to provide food but it is of course, nowadays, a big fat lie.
A lie.
They hunt because they feel they can justify the PLEASURE of going out and tracking down and killing a wild animal.
They love to kill animals and chase them down.
It is a low life "sport". It is mean and nasty. It is not necessary. And it often involves horrific mental and physical suffering.
I won't mince words. These animals deserve better.
OK, off the soapbox - back to the topic at hand..Or I will have to start a new thread and don't want to.
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