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I'll say for me #1 is the diversity & food. I've had the opportunity to travel to other states & nothing compares to variety of food we have in this city.
Also being able to meet people from all over the world and learn more about cultures that are different from my own.
Well, unless you mean diversity IN food options, those are two things.
I think the #1 best thing about NYC is the New Yorkers themselves, who overall display a level of energy, intelligence, and engagement beyond other cities.
You don't need to get into a car to do everything, and can skip the expense and hassle of having one. I like to walk outside and see people. In most of the US you just don't see many people outside, unless there's some special event or people are walking to and from their cars in the parking lot.
There's always things to do here, even if you don't have or want to spend money. Architecture is high on my list too.
…who overall display a level of energy, intelligence, and engagement beyond other cities.
The vast majority of 9+ million NYC residents are either under-educated or not educated at all. You’d have a very hard time trying to prove that NYC residents are more intelligent than those of other cities which have much smaller underclasses.
The best part about living in NYC is that when you leave, you appreciate what’s outside much, much more than those who’ve never had to experience living in such a teeming mass of piled dung.
Never knowing whether or not you'll be randomly attacked by a deranged lunatic while minding your busoness does add a sense of excitement to your life.
It's the easiest city in the US to get around in with a car being optional. The US part is because I'm familiar with it, speak the default language well, am a citizen so don't have to contend with immigration status things, and have lots of friends and family here (in the US) so it's easier to get to them. I also like that among US cities, NYC really does have a lot of fairly easy train trips to take which is otherwise extremely limited in most other parts of the US.
Now aside from that, for things somewhat more specific to NYC and in tandem with the above, I also like how different the various neighborhoods of the city and the surrounding areas are from each other. This goes from street layout, to architecture, to the history, and the community that currently lives in it. I think the mosaic is interesting and I really like looking at the different grocery stores and trying stuff I've never seen and trying to figure out what it could be good for.
Before getting hitched, I also really enjoyed dating a variety of people as NYC really has a lot of people from all over.
I have a strong preference for Mexican cuisine, Central Asian cuisine, and East Asian cuisines and there are only a few places in the world that has a large variety of both in restaurants and produce with NYC being one of them. The different subculturas that this population size and density allows for is also pretty interesting so whenever I pick up a niche interest, it becomes really easy and fulfilling to pick things up and really explore it. Of the niche interests I've had and continued with, sometimes as part of my job, I think it would be pretty difficult to have the variety and depth of work in other places as I do here.
Not specific to NYC, but pretty rare in conjunction with the rest that I've mentioned, I like also having both mountains (well, hills) and oceans to go to that are within pretty easy reach of the very dense and urban neighborhoods I've generally lived in.
Well, unless you mean diversity IN food options, those are two things.
I think the #1 best thing about NYC is the New Yorkers themselves, who overall display a level of energy, intelligence, and engagement beyond other cities.
The census had about 39% of NYC's population above 25 years of age having a bachelor's degree which is slightly higher than the US on average. I think a lot of this though is people from elsewhere. Going further, if we're talking about the sort of top echelon of industry or academia in NYC, it's generally going to be more non-New York natives which perhaps isn't what you mean by New Yorkers.
Native New Yorkers will in some sense be "over represented" compared to any other specific location in the world, but generally within New York City itself, the really more educated residents in terms of formal education and how prestigious the institutions where the degree came from are or amount of compensation or level they get in the higher tiers of their respective tiers are overwhelmingly going to be people who were not born and raised in NYC.
People from elsewhere and not NYC make up the majority of my friends here and the people I work closely with. It's not that I haven't met any native New Yorkers I like and respect, as that definitely exists, it's just that they're a minority.
Last edited by OyCrumbler; 09-16-2022 at 03:35 PM..
Maybe the best thing is that be generally have the best.
Great chefs, great doctors, great musicians, great professors, etc.
Yess agreed!
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