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You dont have to be rich to enjoy the ameneties of the city. I always go to chinatown, soho, village, LEs m williamsburg and enjoy the food and but doesnt mean i have to live in these areas.
I take the train and dont make 6 figures. If you wanna live te champagne and caviar lifestyle then yes,... Move to minnesota
Even if you're not rich, NYC still has concerts, good cheap food, public parks, museums, etc. What good is a bigass house in the middle of Fumbuck PA if you're forced to eat Pizza Hut and the local bars are full of creepy middle aged dudes and soccer moms in sweatpants
I'm one of the most adamant people on this forum on the topic of "leaving", but even I have to dispute your claims. Literally millions of people survive here without being anywhere near rich. My family wants for almost nothing, including our own home, yearly vacations, savings, brand new cars, weekly restaurant visits, etc, and I'm barely touching the upper middle class salary range.
The whole idea that you have to make big bucks just to live anywhere in the 5 boroughs is wildly overblown and sensationalized. This isn't Monaco for christsakes. It really depends on what your expectations and needs are.
Surviving and Living are two different things. If you haven't been out of NYC in a while you haven't lived. What we do here is good for one or two weeks for most people.
NYC is not the center of the universe anymore.
It's not about big bucks it's about having a decent quality of life which many don't have here anymore. You can be programmed to believe anything you want but the golden era is gone. You are being spoon fed somebody else's idea of what amazing should be.
This weekend I took long walks in both midtown and downtown. It was disgusting...people on top of each other...couldn't walk a straight line without running into somebody or having snide comments hurled at you...and in the midst of it are the idiots glued to their cell phone not giving a damn what kind of congestion they are causing.
I paid $10 for a salad at a health food restaurant and they fill it with white iceberg lettuce. What's wrong with this picture ? You can't tell me this is living.
Surviving and Living are two different things. If you haven't been out of NYC in a while you haven't lived. What we do here is good for one or two weeks for most people.
NYC is not the center of the universe anymore.
It's not about big bucks it's about having a decent quality of life which many don't have here anymore. You can be programmed to believe anything you want but the golden era is gone. You are being spoon fed somebody else's idea of what amazing should be.
This weekend I took long walks in both midtown and downtown. It was disgusting...people on top of each other...couldn't walk a straight line without running into somebody or having snide comments hurled at you...and in the midst of it are the idiots glued to their cell phone not giving a damn what kind of congestion they are causing.
I paid $10 for a salad at a health food restaurant and they fill it with white iceberg lettuce. What's wrong with this picture ? You can't tell me this is living.
Wow... someone sounds a little bitter! People on top of one another? Lol, it's called being in a busy part of the city. Wow. Someone was busy on their cell instead of bowing down to you! $10 for iceberg? No one is putting a gun to your head and telling you to go back.
I don't know how you were able to generate results with both "New York is a "and "nyc is a" by typing nyc...
Anyway, just another showing of London's inferiority complex. I don't know why their city-data users are so obsessed with New York and silly rankings.
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