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Wrong and wrong. You have serious trouble with reading comprehension.
You claimed that you didn't care about the relative size of a city, or the relative size of anything or anyplace. To you, everyplace was the same, as long as there are cars and houses and people. So why are you in Chicago? You would be just as happy in rural Mississippi, because it's all the same, according to you.
No, I claimed that I didn't care if NYC had 100x more water tanks than Chicago. Here's my statement:
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As for water tower tanks and garbage disposals, who honestly even notices such things when they're visiting? I know there are some in the neighborhood that I live in in Chicago, but I don't care about them, nor was I on the lookout for them in NYC. Whether New York has 100x more of them than Chicago makes little difference to me, and most likely to the vast majority of tourists.
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And you still lack reading comprehension, or logical reasoning. You claimed that NYC smelled unique (while strangely trying to argue NYC isn't unique), and that is obviously absurd
I said flat about bad. I never once talked about the "unique" smell of NYC
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The alley thing was honestly my biggest issue with NYC. Oh dear Lord does Manhattan smell awful in the middle of July.
Should I have prefaced it "not all of Manhattan, but parts?" Sure. But the fact is that it certainly smelled worse than what I'm used.
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Where in the world are there no "piles of garbage". Please name me one city, please. Chicago has the exact same piles of garbage as in NYC. It may even be worse, as Chicago tends to have more small buildings, so the garbage is thrown right outside, rather than enclosed like in major buildings in NYC.
Apparently you're unaware of this, but "dumpsters and cans" are used around the globe, including NYC. I have never heard of a city that doesn't use garbage cans.
I have been in NYC in the middle of winter with thrown out Christmas trees lining the streets in residential parts of Manhattan, and it was the same in July with piles of garbage bags. If you honestly haven't seen this then the only one blind here is you.
Chicago does not pile trash bags on its sidewalks by streets in nice parts of town like it's no big deal.
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Yet you now refuse to reveal the location of this mythical apartment with parking, you refuse to reveal the location of the alcohol-free bodega, and you claim there are no garbage cans in NYC. No, you're lying.
Let me go text my friend his cross street so I can post it on an internet while I argue with a troll. Yep, let me get right on that. He lived off the N and the Q about 2-3 stops before it goes into Manhattan. That's all you're getting.
Here's my quote on the bodega:
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As for the bodegas, my only experience with them was that I found it annoying that the ones in Harlem didn't bother to sell much alcohol, if any at all. If they did it was going to be beer, so you literally had to trek to find some place that sold hard alcohol.
Maybe I shouldn't have said if any at all, but all I was finding was beer, which I did not want. You haven't proven me wrong on that either, and that was off 125th not terribly far from that H&M. No idea what the cross was anymore, and I frankly don't care.
I also never said no one uses cans anywhere in NYC, but when there's bags of garbage on the sidewalks right off streets of Manhattan, they could use more of them.
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Your point is that you are personally ignorant about NYC, and personally completely ignorant about all cities on earth having cars and traffic, so NYC isn't different in terms of driving because you personally didn't know better? Pretty ridiculous argument.
I personally said my experience with NYC with limited, that I only stayed in 3 places, and spent most of my time in Manhattan. You went off the deep end because I didn't think NYC was un-American enough. My mind still isn't changed, even though you've been nothing but petulant and insufferable.
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The problem with this thread is that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants. Most people are picking cities with a lot of ethnic diversity, but IMO that's as American as you can get.
I'd pick cities that have areas that look like war zones...Detroit, St. Louis, and Camden are three good candidates.
I personally said my experience with NYC with limited, that I only stayed in 3 places, and spent most of my time in Manhattan. You went off the deep end because I didn't think NYC was un-American enough. My mind still isn't changed, even though you've been nothing but petulant and insufferable.
It's because you're dealing with someone that allows where they live to define who they are.
To not acknowledge that their city should be bowed down to and worshiped in every possible way is taken as a personal insult. They will never back down, and can't be reasoned with.
New Orleans
Honolulu
Miami
Does San Juan, PR count?
I've never been, but maybe Baltimore, especially in the older parts with the cobblestone streets and row homes?
The problem with this thread is that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants. Most people are picking cities with a lot of ethnic diversity, but IMO that's as American as you can get.
Bingo.
There is no U.S. city that feels even as foreign as Montreal. And even that has many typical North American aspects.
I'd like to see someone find a public university in the U.S. that has overall curricula not in English. Somewhere in Miami? San Diego? Hmm...
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Yeah, the people saying NYC...I don't get it. It's different than your typical Sunbelt city, but there's nothing un-American about it. In fact, NYC is probably the most American city there is. I mean, it's in tons of movies, TV shows, songs, etc.
Agreed 100%. People are seriously arguing that density and transit make NYC feel un-American? Pretty funny.
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