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I just came back from visiting NYC for the 5th time since 2010. It feels so much like home even though I have never lived there, maybe because of the experiences I've had there in the past two years.
I'm moving elsewhere soon, but I really hope to be living in New York 3-5 years from now. It is just the perfect city for me, and I'm sure many others feel this way as well.
And for me the key to it's uniqueness is the hundreds of theatrical productions that are going on at any one time. The museums are world class and Lincoln Center alone could keep a music lover happy every night for 80 years.
Paris and London might compete worldwide, but certainly nothing else in the United States can begin to hold a candle to NYC.
Take them blinders off man.
Let's see how much you love it when you get there.
You need to spend some QUALITY time on the 14 street platform at 5pm in August waiting for a train that can't come fast enough.
The 3 pounds of water weight you loose sweating like a pig oughta be just enough to snap you out of the la-la land your in.
Take them blinders off man.
Let's see how much you love it when you get there.
You need to spend some QUALITY time on the 14 street platform at 5pm in August waiting for a train that can't come fast enough.
The 3 pounds of water weight you loose sweating like a pig oughta be just enough to snap you out of the la-la land your in.
That might be true for someone used to cooler climes, but if he happens to be from the southeast then that's probably not a big deal. Once you've moved in 113 degree weather in the middle of August, up and down outdoors stairs, standing around in summer heat doesn't seem so bad.
The general principle you're trying to get across is true, though. One's routines while visiting a city != one's routines while living and working in a city.
August is a rough month in NYC, especially when taking the subway. It really does just plain suck. Especially if you are going to a job dressed in a suit, or some other job that requires you to look polished and dressed up. You're practically soaking with sweat by the time you get there. I remember at my one job I'd bring all of my work clothes in a bag on the train and switch into them at work a half hour early, then reapply my makeup and redo my hair. It was a major pain in the ass. Then I'd go home with no central air conditioning, only a portable unit that never cooled some parts of the apartment just right. I literally had to drink like 2-3 gallons of water of day to keep from passing out. So, yeah, you see the glam parts of NYC, but there are other sides as well.
Gee, of course I know that living is different from visiting. I was trying to make a statement about the city itself, which some people here understood.
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