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You can escape from New York but you can never get away from New Yorkers. We are everywhere.
There used to be a TV commercial with a young couple dying to get away from NYC and they show the couple taking planes, trains, boats to some remote beach where they go on a horseback tour. A guy in a Yankee cap comes right up behind them: "Heyyy, You live in my building!"
One night years ago I was driving in ATL and there's so many streets named Peachtree I thought I wasn't going the right way, so I pulled down my window and asked the guy next to me for directions. He said "you're right up the block, follow me." I asked him, "you don't have a southern accent, where are you from?"
His response, "The Bronx."
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Omg. I spent a few weeks in the Northern VA burbs to “get out of the city”. They have the same damn issues, but with garbage restaurants. There is literally nothing to do plus you eat crappy food from chain restaurants.
Came back to upper Manhattan and at least have some nice food options to eat out under heat lamps. The city is more alive even now than any ****ty suburb.
Enjoy “eating inside” at Olive Garden in the burbs. I’ll stick to eating outside under a heat lamp at a real restaurant. TYVM.
Don't speed on the Interstates in VA.
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"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
Omg. I spent a few weeks in the Northern VA burbs to “get out of the city”. They have the same damn issues, but with garbage restaurants. There is literally nothing to do plus you eat crappy food from chain restaurants.
Came back to upper Manhattan and at least have some nice food options to eat out under heat lamps. The city is more alive even now than any ****ty suburb.
Enjoy “eating inside” at Olive Garden in the burbs. I’ll stick to eating outside under a heat lamp at a real restaurant. TYVM.
There is suburb and suburb. You were in a not-so-outstanding part of VA, trust me you can dine indoors and eat good food right across the Hudson River, or past the Bronx’s northern border, and it’s the suburbs as well.
Also I remember D.C’s suburbs in Maryland and it was not like what you are describing.
Not in terms of black folks or ethnic whites but it's actually respectable when it comes to Asians (namely Koreans, Vietnamese, Indians) and Latinos (mainly centros but also Peruvians and Bolivians). There is *some* decent food there but the problem is everything is spread all over hell in far-flung stripmalls that often don't seem worth the effort to get to.
NYC no longer stands far above and beyond when it comes to food. Especially not now with our restaurant industry in shambles.
Have to disagree, good luck finding good Indian or Thai food in like Connecticut, it's all ****
I went to Bangkok and when I got back people from out of NYC asked me, "wasn't it the most delicious Thai food you've ever had while there?". I was just like, umm, it was excellent but the same as the places I go to in NYC. That's how good the quality is here
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