Posted on 01/20/2013 7:55:47 AM PST by proxy_user
DRIVE through almost any neighborhood around the country, and class divisions are as clear as the gate around one community or the grittiness of another. From the footprint of the house to the gleam on the car in the driveway, it is not hard to guess the economic status of the people who live there.
Even the landscape is carved up by class. From 15,000 feet up, you can stare down at subdivisions and tract houses, and America’s class lines will stare right back up at you.
Manhattan, however, is not like most places. Its 1.6 million residents hide in a forest of tall buildings, and even the city’s elite take the subway. Sure, there are obvious brand-name buildings and tony ZIP codes where the price of entry clearly demands a certain amount of wealth, but middle-class neighborhoods do not really exist in Manhattan — probably the only place in the United States where a $5.5 million condo with a teak closet and mother-of-pearl wall tile shares a block with a public housing project.
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I sincerely hope that your son enjoys the heck out of his time here, gets whatever it is out of his system and moves on to a more relaxed place to settle.
I can pretty much guarantee that he won't end up regretting the sojourn.
Thats sounds nice. What do the men not suffering from low-T do?
I don’t think he’ll regret it either. NYC would be okay in my book if it weren’t so Democrat.....I don’t even watch NY comedians any more on TV...it’s just one big ‘conservative-bash’ after another. It seems as if most of them and the NY’ers that yuk it up with them don’t even realize there is a whole other country out there.
In socialism there’s only two classes - the Inner Party (5-10% max) and the proletariat Outer Party (90-95%).
The Inner Party are the elite across all areas, they have all the power. The proles are the workers and are constantly kept in a state of fear and change.
Best working example is North Korea.
Or Law, or Medicine, or a million other things. If you work for the financial industry, ok. But even that is less true today than ever before.
There’s a lot of ego tied up in thinking NYC is the pinnacle of everything. But most people do not see it borne out in their results.
And several foreign places like China, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, etc are too busy laughing to take the claims on NY supremacy seriously.
It sounds ignorant to suggest that the only fields not done to perfection in NYC are things like lumberjacking and farming. So stereotypical.
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The do jobs like iron work, cop, firefighter, EMT, brickwork...and they are all native NYers. The low-T metro pussies almost always move here from fly-over country. You probably know a few.
The subway stop was only 3 stops away from Grand Central; we were in the heart of the city in 15 minutes.
I don't understand why places like Long Island City are not hot suburbs. It is a dingy, ugly place but given the proximity to Grand Central I would think it could be booming.
Sorry, but I do business in HK and Seoul and KL and Beijing and SG (not frankfurt though). I assure you that they do not take NYers lightly. But I’m certain that your vast personal experience in these areas will tell you different.
They bonk all those women while the Manhattan Metrosexuals go about their pathetic little lives and attend group therapy...../s
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