Posted on 11/17/2017 12:51:55 PM PST by Kaslin
Look...this is useless back & forth and BJ, the “old” shtick was dumb on your part; no, worse then dumb...uncalled for and stupid!
Because most of the guys posting here blame women for their problems without any self-reflection. It’s time to look within if one is divorced.
Ever think about that?
Yes, both sexes can do bad things, so only "blaming" one side or the other for the number of divorces is stupid; not to mention inaccurate.
Plus, some people get married too young when they’re too immature. I’ve seen that A LOT.
Somehow I have a problem believing a man on his fourth marriage is an expert on male-female relations.
The problem isn’t divorce...the problem is certainly many people marrying who shouldn’t have in the first place. Divorce rates attests to that and is the result of that.
Tourists are in Manhattan all year long and cause problems! I'll tell you about something in FRmail. :-)
A man on his 4th marriage just shows he’s not into marriage to begin with. Like changing shoes. But women now days are also doing just that.
That and/or for the WRONG reasons!
NYC would not be even remotely close to first choice if I were to move again to a city. Everything you listed is in most major cities throughout the US without having to be in NYC.
Boston? Yes, some good restaurants, some decent museums, but NOTHING like what's in NYC! And it's expensive too.
Chicago? Oh give me a break! Yes, the museums are good, as is the aquarium ( which along with the Science & Industry Museum are on the South Side in a ROTTEN neighborhood! ), some restaurants are good, many aren't and you can't get good pizza, Italian, deli, nor Chinese food there at all. And bread? Chicago has fewer bakeries than it once had and even back then, the bread & rolls were dreadful! Oh and forget about the old, great German and Hungarian restaurants...they're all gone! Theatre ? LOL...even Second City isn't any good anymore. The EL and buses? Pretty dangerous and not kept well. And it's VERY expensive and the taxes are nuts there too.
Dallas and its environs? No state tax, but high property taxes, some good restaurant, but again, NO edible pizza, maybe one okay-good Chinese restaurant,but it doesn't have spareribs, and you can't get decent rye bread, bagels, and you can't get apple cider doughnuts at all! Theatre? LOL Comparable museums? Nope. And you have to have a car!
Just as as "bad" as they've become, NYC, London, and Paris, to name but a few such, are unique, special places, which other cities can't hold a patch to.
L.A.? NO WAY!
Yeah, right.
Actually, it’s hard to find tourists in January! Maybe some intrepid, rich types shopping on Madison or 5th. But, happily, the idiotic ones who cluster around the Naked Cowboy are long gone.
Oh they’re there in the spring, summer, fall, and yes, at Christmas and they’re ALL idiots! They walk too slowly, don’t look where they are going, stand in the middle of the sidewalks and street, and I’ve even seen some who all hold hands and walk in a line across the entire sidewalk! YUCK! And that’s on Fifth!
What's MORE significant to you, may NOT be "significant" to me or any other poster on this thread. Yet what quibble do you have with my assertation that cities like NYC, London, and Paris are unique cites, that others can't compare to; even with all of the problems ( and nobody, least of all me, isn't claiming that those 3 cities have serious problems! ), other places just don't come near them.
So WHAT is "important" to you?
.....”So WHAT is “important” to you?”.....
Since I’ve lived in several major cities as well as smaller ones I’ll take smaller over major cities any day. Traffic matters because it’s time consuming if you don’t want public transportation.....’time’ is valuable to me..and Independence...as well as a city that doesn’t ‘stink’....the list could go on.
I’m currently in a smaller city and have everything here a major city has.....just a smaller scale and this without the crime, dirt, traffic and hectic pace. A major city is just under a couple hours if I really want it....but I have no desire of it’s glitter.
That could also just be people from New Jersey!
So owning a car is the most important thing to you if you have to live in a city. For me it is cultural things. And I’m sorry, you cannot get the greatest opera stars in the world to play in small cities like they do in NYC. Some of them live there! So, no, not every city in the US has what New York has. The ones that might (and I say ‘might’) are San Francisco or Chicago.
I don't know which cities you call "major" and which "small", nor where you were born and grew up; however, I have a feeling that we just may disagree what a "major" city is. So IF you do want to have a conversation with m e, about this, perhaps you would reply ( or ignore this whole post ), with just a couple of the names of the "MAJOR CITIES" you've lived in and perchance, the city/town/village you were born and/or raised in.
You may not care about any museums ( and there are many different kinds! ), the theatre, historical places, having a variety of good restaurants, bakeries, or even being able to get favorite food items, but many, probably most, re the latter, do.
Unless your list of "comfort food" ( foodstuff/s that one ate as a child, has very fond memories of, and go to, to eat, and then feel good ) is something like Skippy peanut butter, which you can get EVERYWHERE and your mother was/is a lousy cook ( I'm not saying that she was/is one, but people whose mothers, grandmothers, whomever, weren't good cooks, have a different view of food ), I find it surprising that you are so blase, to the point of disinterest, re food.
"STINK"? Major cities "stink"? Well, I can't think of a MAJOR city that isn't on a body/ies of water of some kind, so there's that. If you mean bus and car fumes...I MISS THAT SMELL! I also dearly miss sidewalks; some of us actually like all of that. :-)
And some of us don't want to have to drive everywhere!
Each to his or her own, but one's own taste isn't what this thread is about AND if one is fortunate enough to actually live in a major city, earn enough money to be able to enjoy, fully, everything one finds in one, then should that person NOT avail himself/herself of the delights and wonders of such a place then that person is a damned fool and an IDIOT; which IS what Rush was!
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