Is NYC "the Realest" City in America? (Russia: neighborhoods, gated)

[deportallofthem]

The people, weather, environment, attitude, architecture all seem so real. It's just incredible what a LACK of a facade this huge city has! Go visit Dallas, SF, or LA if you want to see fakeness. NYC is so real, so comforting. the people are so geniune. I seem to be at peace with what the meaning of life is. So is NYC "The Realest" city in america?

[BXGEAR]

Originally Posted by deportallofthem

The people, weather, environment, attitude, architecture all seem so real. It's just incredible what a LACK of a facade this huge city has! Go visit Dallas, SF, or LA if you want to see fakeness. NYC is so real, so comforting. the people are so geniune. I seem to be at peace with what the meaning of life is. So is NYC "The Realest" city in america?

I dont know about you but NYC has the biggest facade in this country. Everyone is a character. You have to be, in order to get by

[BXGEAR]

I think you're just new here

[ogplife]

Agree with both of Bx Gears posts.

[ogplife]

i agree with both of BXGEARS post. Interesting post considering your name. Immigrants make up a lot of the character of the city. I guess you don't want them deported after all.

[Elvira Black]

Well, IMO, based on what I have read and seen, NYC may become much less "diverse" sooner than many people think. It's already happened in Manhattan. So the OP may indeed be very happy here...though curious as to whether he is actually living here right now, and if so, where....

[StuyTownRefugee]

Originally Posted by Elvira Black

Well, IMO, based on what I have read and seen, NYC may become much less "diverse" sooner than many people think. It's already happened in Manhattan. So the OP may indeed be very happy here...though curious as to whether he is actually living here right now, and if so, where....

Interesting, but not quite sure how you mean that. In what way "less diverse" as you define it??

[Elvira Black]

In a word, more white, less minority/Latin American immigrants/poor/working or lower middle class.

NYC is already--and has virtually always been--a city of little neighborhoods (or often, even blocks) where territories are defended or lost. It is a very segregated city.

Seems as if the tide has turned, and the more moneyed upper and middle class will again have their "day in the sun" in the five boroughs. Not to say there will not be plenty of people from all over the country and the world still coming, but I think NYC will become whiter, younger, and more affluent overall. It's already happened in many areas of the city already.

[StuyTownRefugee]

Originally Posted by Elvira Black

In a word, more white, less minority/Latin American immigrants/poor/working or lower middle class.

NYC is already--and has virtually always been--a city of little neighborhoods (or often, even blocks) where territories are defended or lost. It is a very segregated city.

Seems as if the tide has turned, and the more moneyed upper and middle class will again have their "day in the sun" in the five boroughs. Not to say there will not be plenty of people from all over the country and the world still coming, but I think NYC will become whiter, younger, and more affluent overall. It's already happened in many areas of the city already.

OKay, I'd say that's true in some parts of Manhattan, but it sure wasn't or isn't that way in most of Brooklyn, only some sections, and also not much beyond after Long Island City in Queens, the vast burrough stretching to Flushing and JFK is so Asian and other. Harlem in Manh has changed on the West Side but still there is Washington Hts, but East Harlem doesn't seem to progress the way the city has hoped.

I don't think that's the case, in fact I read recently many white NYers are shrinking and American blacks too are leaving the city, leaving mostly to non-whites, or probably very mixed groups. However, there is a lot of Russian speaking whites inbound.

i know very little about the Bronx but know there are some nice parts, I've been few times, hilly and treesy which other burroughs have little of. SHame it had such a rep on the news nightly like N. Jersey.

[jmlicb]

Cleveland is the Realest City on the planet, I will admit NYC is better and it is hard to compare the two at all because of the size differences but for being a major city Cleveland has the realest people on earth.