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I think I've backed myself up very well already, thanks. I'm not dismissing architecture as irrelevant, I'm dismissing it as a reason to call a city exciting. "Quaintess" and "character" are very irrelevant when you fill those buildings up with Starbucks and Urban Outfitters. All the things that gave New York an image, the culture of the city itself has been all but entirely wiped out. The New York of Do The Right Thing or Seinfeld has been replaced by the New York of Sex and the City and 2 Broke Girls. I'm no expert on New York, but you go on and on about this sentimental attachment people have to the city. What of that is left? Nothing, besides the buildings. When you go to Rome now do you feel like you're in ancient Rome? When I go to New York now I don't feel like I'm in New York. I feel like I'm in an outdoor shopping mall or something. You can twist my words as much as you wish to, but if you think for one second that I'm going to bow down, act like architectural urbanity is the sole reason that makes a place exciting and be an opinionless clone just because I may not have the opinion of the majority of people, you're mistaken. Time is ticking, my friend. You can either read the posts I have made previously which have throughly backed up my side of this debate, or you can continue to label me as an uncredible, misinformed twit pushing his political agenda. The choice is yours.
Time is ticking, my friend. You can either read the posts I have made previously which have throughly backed up my side of this debate, or you can continue to label me as an uncredible, misinformed twit pushing his political agenda. The choice is yours.
You haven't backed up anything. Toronto simply does not have the entertainment options that New York does by any stretch of the imagination. I don't even know why you are even trying to debate such nonsense. You may as well be trying to convince me a chevette has better performance than a corvette.
Go back and read my Toronto v. New York comparison, then read it again a couple more times until it starts to sink past your anti-American blinders. That there is the reality of a comparison between the two cities, and an accurate reflection of why the vast majority of potential tourists would choose to visit one or the other.
Why don't you post reasons why you think Toronto is better by showcasing the city's merits, rather than trying to improve it's profile by tearing down New York's? I can assure you, the latter approach that you are using isn't fooling anybody.
I didn't bring up Toronto. I don't even live in Toronto. Toronto is getting there, but it's still not nearly as bad as New York when it comes to being a McCity. I'm sick and tired of these Canada vs USA arguments. You can go back and read my posts a few pages back or judge me by what a bunch of other pro-gentrification fanatics have to say about me. Either way, you need to accept that not everyone thinks that New York is the greatest city in the world. I think it may have been somewhere special at one point, but not anymore. I have made it very clear why I think this, but you feel the need to try and convince me to repeat it. Use your mouse and click "previous" and go back a few pages to read what I initially wrote, otherwise quit trying to label me.
I don't understand why people can't possibly fathom that someone doesn't think New York is the greatest city in the world. I don't know if some people were being sarcastic (sarcasm is impossible to detect in writing), but this is getting childish.
You're right. Don't come here if you want to paint the town red and rock all night.
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