Escape from NYC: Stories from Those Who Left

[wawaweewa]

Originally Posted by NyWriterdude

My dentist is at Columbia Dental School (affiliated with a major hospital). So for dental care alone, I go to the hospital twice a year. I had glacoma (sp?) in my family, so the specialists like to look at my eyes once a year. I had laser surgery last year on my eyes to get rid of my glasses, and I had to follow up with them quite frequently over a period of a couple of months. I prematurely have arthritis and have the occasional locked joint, so that was more SPECIALIST visits.

So as you can see I quite frequently go to major hospitals, and I therefore prefer living close to them. You get much better medical care there than you do from single practitioners.

Different people use different services dude, but for someone like me who does use SPECIALTY services within the medical sector frequently enough, I have no intention of driving long distances to go to a major hospital or a specialist.

I have no interest in driving 15 minutes even. I simply do not like driving. If I visit family who live in places with no mass transit, yes, I do drive. And hate every minute of it.

The condition of mass transit in Asia does not concern me, I am not Asian, nor am I European so what does on in those places that I will most likely never live in is entirely not important to my life. My life is in the USA, and more importantly in NYC. It is what it is and that is that.

Go to wherever if you want to, I wish you the best of luck. But stop pretending that your choice is the choice for everyone. Do I think that just because I love NY that is practical or viable for everyone to live here? No. But for a multitude of reasons, enough people chose to live here to make this the nation's most populous city.

And yes, everything in life is a trade off, a matter of weighing pros and cons.

How old are you? You frequent physicians more than my grandparents do. It seems to me that you're just neurotic. It's a common ailment in this city.

You can't on the one hand hail mass transit in NYC and then dismiss how ****ty it is. If crime reverted to what it was in the 80's, would you be OK with that too? The MTA can be fixed just like crime was.

Please put your neuroticism to the side; we're simply having a conversation here. No one way is the right way. I grew up here, am still here, and will be for another few years at least. I like this city just like the next guy or gal but I don't make it out to be what it isn't. My fellow Whities holed up in Manhattan can live in their little bubble and pretend that NYC solely consists of everything within a mile radius from their dwelling but that doesn't mean that they're correct.

[makossa]

Originally Posted by Henna

There were also moves from NY to Chicago and back to NY but didn't want to waste too much time digging for details

Great job Henna in your research. Do you remember the "Harlem Newbie" days before she became "EastBoundandDownChick"?....LOL Those were some good ones.

[EuroFresh]

Take it from me. I tried leaving new york recently after living here for over 10 years on and off. I went to Miami and planed to move there. After three days I realized living any place else would be a hollow and pointless existence at least for me. Other places are so boring. Its more exciting for me walking three blocks in midtown than the best activity any other city could offer. Im not sure what it is but no other city can compare to this. I was going to move for the beach, but realized every day living in a tropical place and it would no longer be special. I can just live in Manhattan and than travel to these places whenever I get fed up with the city.