Why would you want to come here at all? Everything is too expensive, the people that drive are terrible at it, and the people in general are jerks. I’ve lived in Brooklyn for most of my life, I know these things.
My last trip to NYC was a couple of days after 9/11.
There won’t be another.
Because my wife, who is from India, has only ever seen NYC as it is presented in the Movies, and therefore thinks that’s how it’ll be in real life. It’s her idea to go, and to be fair, there are plenty of interesting things to see/do there: the Natural History Museum, the “safe” parts of Central Park, the ethnic quarters, the Statue of Liberty etc.
Absolutely true. I’ve lived in, first, Manhattan, then Queens, all of my life. You can quickly and easily see how dumb many if not most here are by simply watching them cross the street. Many don’t even bother to look. They cross busy Manhattan streets while texting. Most of the time it’s young women doing this, but guys do it too. Then again, liberal guys are similar in many ways to typically dopey NYC girls. And doing something as dumb as this when your life is on the line is a true test of a person’s intelligence, at least IMO.
Since you live in Brooklyn, it would be interesting to hear you accounts of how hipsters react to the coming neo-Soviet rule of Comrade deBlasio.