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A true New Yorker delights in $h*tting all over Chicago. I think in 2011 or 2012 when Chicago surpassed NYC in raw numbers of murders as opposed to per capita someone was like, Hey! We could have years of this! Chicago is the murder capital! Ef that place
I go to Chicago from 1 to 4 times a week and we were talking about the West Loop in particular. My housemate never goes and brings up crime a lot. We have great sociopolitical discussions, and I’m just like, bottom line, I go to the West Loop to hang out and it is always peaceful there. Without diminishing violence in safe areas, I maintain that it is peaceful most of the time
The worst thing is I think mainstream media has a bigger influence on those who did not grow up going to sleep to gun shots, and are actually frightened by the mere idea of witnessing that
A "true" New Yorker doesn't care about Chicago and doesn't even know where it's located. Anything west of the Hudson river might as well be Canada. Chicago is not mentioned anywhere for anything. The only rivalries NY has is with Philly and Boston, and those are sports related. The only other US city whose existence is acknowledged in conversation is LA. I wouldn't be surprised if London is mentioned more than Chicago.
A "true" New Yorker doesn't care about Chicago and doesn't even know where it's located. Anything west of the Hudson river might as well be Canada. Chicago is not mentioned anywhere for anything. The only rivalries NY has is with Philly and Boston, and those are sports related. The only other US city whose existence is acknowledged in conversation is LA. I wouldn't be surprised if London is mentioned more than Chicago.
So pretty much New Yorkers are pretty ignorant to anything outside NY
So pretty much New Yorkers are pretty ignorant to anything outside NY
Yes.
Outside of CA, FL, NJ, CT, PA, GA, and maybe MA I'd say the next most popular places would be international destinations, not other American cities/states. Remember, most New Yorkers don't even drive.
Yes.
Outside of CA, FL, NJ, CT, PA, GA, and maybe MA I'd say the next most popular places would be international destinations, not other American cities/states. Remember, most New Yorkers don't even drive.
So pretty much New Yorkers are pretty ignorant to anything outside NY
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Originally Posted by Gantz
Yes.
Outside of CA, FL, NJ, CT, PA, GA, and maybe MA I'd say the next most popular places would be international destinations, not other American cities/states. Remember, most New Yorkers don't even drive.
A "true" New Yorker doesn't care about Chicago and doesn't even know where it's located. Anything west of the Hudson river might as well be Canada. Chicago is not mentioned anywhere for anything. The only rivalries NY has is with Philly and Boston, and those are sports related. The only other US city whose existence is acknowledged in conversation is LA. I wouldn't be surprised if London is mentioned more than Chicago.
This is an extremely ignorant comment and so soooo untrue. This is like what the 23 y/o dirtbag from Brooklyn who has left the city twice (once to jersey and another to visit his aunt out in Long Island) in his whole life. In 1990.
While alot of New Yorkers are ignorant of places around them and can make that European stereotype of Americans not travelling come to life, New Yorkers are no outlier in this. New Yorkers travel/are wealthier than you think.
Tbh my NY friends travel almost as much as my Boston/Florida/Jersey friends.
A "true" New Yorker doesn't care about Chicago and doesn't even know where it's located. Anything west of the Hudson river might as well be Canada. Chicago is not mentioned anywhere for anything. The only rivalries NY has is with Philly and Boston, and those are sports related. The only other US city whose existence is acknowledged in conversation is LA. I wouldn't be surprised if London is mentioned more than Chicago.
You forget Miami, Atlanta, Orlando*
Chicago is rival to NYC it closest thing to Manhattan The Loop, Near North Side, River North, Lincoln Park and Grant Park is like Bryant and Central Park
Brooklyn areas like Wicker Park, Logan Sqaure
Chicago bad areas mostly south and west side their few pockets on north but not too bad. In NYC it mostly South Bronx, pockets in Brooklyn, pockets in Queens, East Harlem, Washington Heights, Harlem in Manhattan, pockets in Northern Staten Island.
This is an extremely ignorant comment and so soooo untrue. This is like what the 23 y/o dirtbag from Brooklyn who has left the city twice (once to jersey and another to visit his aunt out in Long Island) in his whole life. In 1990.
While alot of New Yorkers are ignorant of places around them and can make that European stereotype of Americans not travelling come to life, New Yorkers are no outlier in this. New Yorkers travel/are wealthier than you think.
Tbh my NY friends travel almost as much as my Boston/Florida/Jersey friends.
New Yorkers do travel a lot, probably more than average American actually, but outside the states I already mentioned before, a lot of the travel is international, not domestic (except transplants visiting their hometowns). I guarantee, if you poll residents of NYC, a lot more people visited Cancun or Toronto or Bahamas or Padua than St. Louis or whatever. A lot more NYers have visited Guangzhou than Kansas city. Most of these middle American cities are not exactly attractive enough to travel to for people without a car, nor most people have any idea where these cities are located. (I am talking about regular people here, not C-D nerds). In casual conversation, everything past NJ is referred to as "Ohio". Don't ask me why, I have no idea where it came from.
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