NYC and SF (New York, Boston, Paris: school, college, organic)

[Spodi90]

Is New York slowly but surely becoming the San Francisco of the east? Or as smug franciscans like to call SF, the Paris of the west. Are we really becoming this douchey? For the yuppies and real éstate developers reading this, is NY the next up and coming Paris of the west?

[livingsinglenyc]

Right cause NYC was just settled and developed. Cause its a brand new place that hasn't been around for a few hundred years....

[steelers1523]

This is a really dumb thread

[Spodi90]

Originally Posted by steelers1523

This is a really dumb thread

Well obviously there is a lot of sarcasm in my question dummy but there is some truth.

[steelers1523]

Originally Posted by Spodi90

Well obviously there is a lot of sarcasm in my question dummy but there is some truth.

Dummy lol NYC is far too big and established to be the anywhere of anywhere.

[Spodi90]

But its getting smaller metaphorically, get it?

[funcrusher3000]

Originally Posted by Spodi90

Is New York slowly but surely becoming the San Francisco of the east? Or as smug franciscans like to call SF, the Paris of the west. Are we really becoming this douchey? For the yuppies and real éstate developers reading this, is NY the next up and coming Paris of the west?

WE, as in real New Yorkers, aren't. We've just been seeing a rapid influx of douchery, which is attempting to lay claim to the city.

[Spodi90]

That's the sad part though, they don't know what they're doing in the process. They claim to come for the diversity but its losing its diversity because of them. It's becoming one dimensional pretentious pricks pretending to be progressive. Hence the SF connection.

[Bronxguyanese]

Originally Posted by Spodi90

Is New York slowly but surely becoming the San Francisco of the east? Or as smug franciscans like to call SF, the Paris of the west. Are we really becoming this douchey? For the yuppies and real éstate developers reading this, is NY the next up and coming Paris of the west?

Historically like San Francisco, NYC politically has been liberal and progressive. NYC politics, openness and acceptance, and similar stuff such as gay rights movements, HIV pandemics were in both cities. Also both NYC and San Francisco were major hubs for immigrants entering the US. NYC is not the only place getting douchy. This can be in seen in other cities with large professional crowds who are suburban, college educated, pretentious, move to big cities and that their poop don't stink. These types of attitudes and peoples exist in DC, Boston and other legacy cities. There is nothing we can do about this. All I know is I cringe where summer roles around when hundreds of thousands of young folks eager to move to big cities after finishing school.

Thank goodness that NYC is a large city, and the 2nd largest city in geographic size after LA. Therefore much of the city wont be gentrified out compared to SF, DC, and Boston. Only Manhattan, and inner city areas that parallel Manhattan will succumb to displacement, high rents, trend setters, organic food shops, starbucks, apple store, artisanal crafts like boiled ostrich eggs from farm to table and etc.

[Spodi90]

Thanks Bronxguyanese. You've got some of the best responses on this forum and I'm not just saying that because of your response to my question.

I also want to let the people here that I offended know I don't hate yuppies, trust fund hipsters, the 1 percent etc. It's just becoming too much of one extreme. The opposite side of the coin of when NY was a pure **** hole in the late 70s. We need some sort of balance. That's my point when I mockingly say that NY is becoming San Francisco. I don't mean it literally.

Innovation comes from dynamism. That's what makes NY great but when everything becomes the same, it becomes stagnant and dull.