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New York became part of America. That's what happened. When you grow up here you don't realize what the rest of America is really like.
Just imagine what people are running from in other cities ! If NYC is ground zero for cultural liberty and freedom in 2014 then you know something is wrong.
I grew up here during the 70's and 80's. I am completely at a loss trying to make sense of this NYC.
It's all man made. People WANT it to be like this so there is no stopping it.
I have to say that NYC is a big cupcake and no longer the big apple like what it used to be. Thank goodness the cupcake fad starting with sex and the city is dying out. And to be honest I think the transplants who only make up probably about 10% of the cities population has brought so much cultural change into the city that the city is a polar opposite of what it used to be in terms of culture. People come to NYC for education, for culture, and so forth, but back in the day they left home, home and did not bring home to NYC, but these days transients bring middle picket white fence America with them changing the cities atmosphere like never before. NYC has always had a bohemian artist community, much of it grew in the East Village after WW2 which exploded from beatniks, hippies, punks, goth, grunge and so on with todays hipsters. Gentrification of the East Village forced artists to move to Brooklyn in Williamsburg and the processed rinsed and repeats like it did a generation ago. My thing is this that the back to the city movement seems to be a generational thing on millenials who come from some suburb who want to move to legacy cities.
I agree with the above, that NYC has become part of America. and NYC being ground zero of cultural liberty and freedom is a joke. If anything NYC is the capital of fakes, pretentiousness, shallowness, in your face snobbery and nannynism.
I understand the complaints about the changes, but anyone who can say "New York City is boring" with a straight face is either a shut-in or a boring person.
New York became part of America. That's what happened. When you grow up here you don't realize what the rest of America is really like.
Just imagine what people are running from in other cities ! If NYC is ground zero for cultural liberty and freedom in 2014 then you know something is wrong.
I grew up here during the 70's and 80's. I am completely at a loss trying to make sense of this NYC.
I agree and my experience as well. Growing up, I spent time here and there in other areas and therefore have a point of comparison.
New York is now very much like what the rest of America always was.
I agree and my experience as well. Growing up, I spent time here and there in other areas and therefore have a point of comparison.
New York is now very much like what the rest of America always was.
What baffles me is that just a small percentage of people who are not from NYC, and even those who are from NYC, go to some college far and away and become culturally Americanized, these folks come back or come to NYC and change the whole entire atmosphere from the ground up. I read an pdf about a report called the young and the restless on how college educated folks were able to change entire landscapes of many American cities.
Last edited by Bronxguyanese; 11-02-2014 at 06:08 PM..
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