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post 1673682123 12-28-2022, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted By notbadnotbrad
Also when I go out in east village, soho, west village etc I barely see homeless people and it’s literally just hot girls and cool restaurants and bars
But you can do that just about anywhere without paying $10 for coffee.
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post 1673683493 12-28-2022, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted By notbadnotbrad
I don’t get it?

When you guys go to nyc do you interact with homeless people and drug addicts?

They are there but I barely notice them and they just sit there minding their own business or yelling none sense

They barely register in my mind

Also when I go out in east village, soho, west village etc I barely see homeless people and it’s literally just hot girls and cool restaurants and bars
OK. But don't you want to live in and visit places where you don't have to deal with homeless people and drug addicts and people yelling nonsense?

I grew up in the midwest. White as can be. I moved to CA 12 years ago and now live about 30 miles north of LA in a mainly white and Asian city.

I visited NYC 6 years ago for what was supposed to be 5 days. I literally paid extra money to change my plane ticket home because I COULD NOT STAND THE PLACE.

I felt very unsafe. There were tons and tons of homeless....poor....and crazy people. I didn't at all feel as if I was in the USA unless I was at a wealthy bar or restaurant. If you were walking down the street you could have told me I was almost any city in the world and I would have believed you. Lots and lots of different nationalities. And everything was dirty. Just plain dirty.

I hated everything about NYC and it is by far the worst city I have ever seen and this is coming from someone who can't stand Los Angeles for many of the same reasons.
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post 1673683523 12-28-2022, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted By notbadnotbrad
I don’t get it?

When you guys go to nyc do you interact with homeless people and drug addicts?

They are there but I barely notice them and they just sit there minding their own business or yelling none sense

They barely register in my mind

Also when I go out in east village, soho, west village etc I barely see homeless people and it’s literally just hot girls and cool restaurants and bars
Believe me I had no intention of interacting with them

But it's kinda hard when they follow you round the subway calling out your name (overheard me and daughter talking) or come up to you begging for money and just keep bugging you even though you're ignoring them..

In most countries that would practically never happen in the first place, let alone multiple times in one evening.

Maybe it's different for you, you're male after all and look strong etc. Is terrifying for a female tho. By the time we got to our hotel I was just grateful we hadn't been actually robbed or worse.

To be fair, we haven't had as many issues walking round in the daytime. It is mostly at night.
post 1673683793 12-28-2022, 01:16 PM
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My GF keeps banging on about visiting NY as she still thinks it's that fairy tale city from 20 years ago. Same with Paris and London. These places have gon to chit due to cultural enrichment.
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The flyover states are where it's at. Best kept secret ever.

The only reason people seem to stick in major cities is for the nightlife, easy sex and drugs. There's not much else worth staying for.

Is homeless, needles, mental health issues, high cost of living really worth all that?
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What are you doing over there OP?? You're missing the NZ summer time!

Must be a marathon or triathlon or something?
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Not sure if srs. I fukkin love NYC and would live there every spring & summer if I had the $.

- anything you need is within walking distance
- so many people yet you're still anonymous because no one notices you due to such large crowds
- 10/10 food everywhere (chitty restaurants go out of business quick)
- endless amounts of entertainment, awesome gyms, attractions, areas of the city to explore. Everyday is a new adventure
- tons of sloots
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Originally Posted By OrbOddLaw
Wow lol
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Originally Posted By Caldef
Believe me I had no intention of interacting with them

But it's kinda hard when they follow you round the subway calling out your name (overheard me and daughter talking) or come up to you begging for money and just keep bugging you even though you're ignoring them..

In most countries that would practically never happen in the first place, let alone multiple times in one evening.

Maybe it's different for you, you're male after all and look strong etc. Is terrifying for a female tho. By the time we got to our hotel I was just grateful we hadn't been actually robbed or worse.

To be fair, we haven't had as many issues walking round in the daytime. It is mostly at night.
I live and work in NYC and it isn't that you're overstating it, but perhaps those of us who live there get used to it. Outside Petee's Pie (Allen/Delancey location) I was there on a Sunday morning when a woman in 'cheekless' tights walked past. One of the degenerate looking brahs looked at her and went 'hey, my god lady ummm' like that. I was outside the place waiting for my order, and the guy came to me and went 'she's a wild one huh' and I went kind of like 'yup, that's NYC' and we spoke for a few minutes about 'the good days'.

There are guys on public transport who will do the 'I'll off myself unless you give me money' and even jump onto the tracks - this happens. Many of the posters on this forum LARP about living in NYC - maybe they did once, or had a friend who did, but pretending like NYC is worse today than it was say in 2004 is just lulzy. Park Slope in 2002 anyone? Look at it today.

Most of my friends/colleagues hate it. I know a couple that make around 370k (gross) each, who moved to CT back during the riots when NYC's idiotic mayor ordered the police to stand down. The price of their apartment in midtown bought them a nice house in a great school area in CT. So the folks ITT crying about 'the USA' are dumb. They just don't get NYC.

I love NYC. But now that we are going to have a kid, I'm also thinking of just selling (at my convenience and advantage) NYC assets and moving somewhere else too. My '26 year old clubbing and smashing a girl in her parents' apartment on the balcony while it is still under construction' are gone. Time for security, and for my kid to not grow up in a place like this.

But my kid can come later and feast on NYC, as I feasted here, and get a lot out of the city too. It isn't 'all bad'.
post 1673693533 12-28-2022, 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted By Jandels
What are you doing over there OP?? You're missing the NZ summer time!

Must be a marathon or triathlon or something?
Tell me about it!!! My boyfriend keeps sending me pics of the beach and I'm fully wishing I was back home with him. Next week we're off to his brother's place in Tauranga so really looking forward to it. Missing him so much too.

And actually yeah, I'm doing the NYRR midnight run on new years eve lol. They've promised me that it'll be perfectly safe, apparently they lock the whole park up for registered runners only. Will hopefully be a highlight of the trip, doing a run with them!

But real reason I'm here is I promised my daughter I'd take her to New York as a reward for passing university, and couldn't break my promises.

To be fair, it's not so bad the last couple of days, am avoiding the subway now and that seems to eliminate most of the safety concerns. It's still dirty and busy and overpriced.

Gives me a whole new appreciation for how nice NZ really is. We don't know how lucky we are kiwi brah
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Originally Posted By Caldef
Tell me about it!!! My boyfriend keeps sending me pics of the beach and I'm fully wishing I was back home with him. Next week we're off to his brother's place in Tauranga so really looking forward to it. Missing him so much too.

And actually yeah, I'm doing the NYRR midnight run on new years eve lol. They've promised me that it'll be perfectly safe, apparently they lock the whole park up for registered runners only. Will hopefully be a highlight of the trip, doing a run with them!

But real reason I'm here is I promised my daughter I'd take her to New York as a reward for passing university, and couldn't break my promises.

To be fair, it's not so bad the last couple of days, am avoiding the subway now and that seems to eliminate most of the safety concerns. It's still dirty and busy and overpriced.

Gives me a whole new appreciation for how nice NZ really is. We don't know how lucky we are kiwi brah
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Originally Posted By Caldef
And actually yeah, I'm doing the NYRR midnight run on new years eve lol.
Aha I knew it! Have a great run.
But real reason I'm here is I promised my daughter I'd take her to New York as a reward for passing university, and couldn't break my promises.
Wow thats awesome, hope you two have a great time together.


My fam is staying north of the bridge these holidays, but one of these years I'm sure we will bump into each other. We go down to Papamoa in the summertime a fair bit
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Always love these threads seeing miscers from Nowhereville, USA crap on NYC

"Omg drug addicts/homeless/dingers/astronauts/libtards/AOC/"you people voted for this!!"/etc etc etc etc ad infinitum
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Originally Posted By Caldef
Yep exactly

Right from the time we arrived. Some water pipes had flooded the airport terminal and so they wouldn't let any planes disembark til they'd cleared it up. 90 minutes later we finally got off the tarmac and managed to join the queues, but even then it was just sitting in the arrival chutes for another hour cos they had such a backlog.

Seriously, have visited third world countries that don't even use computers, which had more efficient airports.

So since it was so late by the time we got through, we walk outside and use the airtrain and there's a bunch of homeless people sleeping in the train station. Welcome to America.
It wasn't this bad 5-6 years ago. Blame the retarded prior mayor and governor. The current ones aren't any better either, they made the city go to sh!t literally overnight. (Ded fkn Srs)
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Even Clive Barker wrote about the Dystopian Gotham like environment that is NYC in his short story, The Midnight Meat Train from the Books of Blood Volume 1 and that was in the 80s

"Leon Kaufman is a New York resident who has grown disillusioned with the city he dreamt of living in for so long. After a few months, the glamour of the Big Apple has faded, replaced by a disappointing reality of drudgery, crime and pollution. To make matters worse, a mysterious serial killer is stalking the New York subway after dark. Little does Kaufman know that the murders are simply a symptom of the true horrors of New York City..."
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Originally Posted By poolshark472
Always love these threads seeing miscers from Nowhereville, USA crap on NYC

"Omg drug addicts/homeless/dingers/astronauts/libtards/AOC/"you people voted for this!!"/etc etc etc etc ad infinitum
Its only good to live in if youre loaded. Otherwise its a chithole

Brb paying 3x more as the rest of the country for cost of living lmao. Hope the pizzas and bagels are worth it lmaoo
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Originally Posted By OrbOddLaw
Even Clive Barker wrote about the Dystopian Gotham like environment that is NYC in his short story, The Midnight Meat Train from the Books of Blood Volume 1 and that was in the 80s

"Leon Kaufman is a New York resident who has grown disillusioned with the city he dreamt of living in for so long. After a few months, the glamour of the Big Apple has faded, replaced by a disappointing reality of drudgery, crime and pollution. To make matters worse, a mysterious serial killer is stalking the New York subway after dark. Little does Kaufman know that the murders are simply a symptom of the true horrors of New York City..."
Exactly. I remember seeing Batman '89 thinking our society would never revert back to something like that. I thought it was far fetched. Then after the Joker, thought the same thing, but here we are. NYC and LA are living in something worse imo. All the political corruption, homeless, drug use, rampant crime that isn't even prosecuted.

I recall a video during COVID where a Dad was walking his daughter cross the street, knew he was about to be hit, probably drug dealers, he knew it was coming, and they blew his brains out right in front of his daughter.
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Originally Posted By Caldef
Compared to UK, Europe, Australia, NZ, Singapore and Hong Kong this place is so backwards, run down and degenerate

It's dirty and unsafe

Full of homeless people and beggars and mentally ill.

Tbh really wish I hadn't come here, it's much nicer at home.
This place is a liberal cesspool - if I wasn't stuck to this disgusting chithole bc of work, I would gtfo in a heart beat. The only decent thing about the city is the food.
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Originally Posted By Caldef
Yep exactly

Right from the time we arrived. Some water pipes had flooded the airport terminal and so they wouldn't let any planes disembark til they'd cleared it up. 90 minutes later we finally got off the tarmac and managed to join the queues, but even then it was just sitting in the arrival chutes for another hour cos they had such a backlog.

Seriously, have visited third world countries that don't even use computers, which had more efficient airports.

So since it was so late by the time we got through, we walk outside and use the airtrain and there's a bunch of homeless people sleeping in the train station. Welcome to America.
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Originally Posted By poolshark472
Always love these threads seeing miscers from Nowhereville, USA crap on NYC

"Omg drug addicts/homeless/dingers/astronauts/libtards/AOC/"you people voted for this!!"/etc etc etc etc ad infinitum
I'm not from "nowhereville USA"

I'm from New Zealand.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...says-economist
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Originally Posted By LogicalLifts
I live and work in NYC and it isn't that you're overstating it, but perhaps those of us who live there get used to it. Outside Petee's Pie (Allen/Delancey location) I was there on a Sunday morning when a woman in 'cheekless' tights walked past. One of the degenerate looking brahs looked at her and went 'hey, my god lady ummm' like that. I was outside the place waiting for my order, and the guy came to me and went 'she's a wild one huh' and I went kind of like 'yup, that's NYC' and we spoke for a few minutes about 'the good days'.

There are guys on public transport who will do the 'I'll off myself unless you give me money' and even jump onto the tracks - this happens. Many of the posters on this forum LARP about living in NYC - maybe they did once, or had a friend who did, but pretending like NYC is worse today than it was say in 2004 is just lulzy. Park Slope in 2002 anyone? Look at it today.

Most of my friends/colleagues hate it. I know a couple that make around 370k (gross) each, who moved to CT back during the riots when NYC's idiotic mayor ordered the police to stand down. The price of their apartment in midtown bought them a nice house in a great school area in CT. So the folks ITT crying about 'the USA' are dumb. They just don't get NYC.

I love NYC. But now that we are going to have a kid, I'm also thinking of just selling (at my convenience and advantage) NYC assets and moving somewhere else too. My '26 year old clubbing and smashing a girl in her parents' apartment on the balcony while it is still under construction' are gone. Time for security, and for my kid to not grow up in a place like this.

But my kid can come later and feast on NYC, as I feasted here, and get a lot out of the city too. It isn't 'all bad'.
Reps for the feels. Lived there 15 years starting in the late 90s. Best place in the world to be in your 20s. Everybody working hard, then everybody going ballz out until it is time to clock back in. Everybody hustles.
The biggest mistake people in NYC made was trying to raise families there, people buying 3 apartments to combine. We moved out after our second kid, but having one baby in NYC is actually a lot of fun. My wife and I are absolutely thinking about moving back once the kids move out.
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Originally Posted By Caldef
I'm not from "nowhereville USA"

I'm from New Zealand.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...says-economist
That's worse than nowhereville USA
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What a terrible decision. Do a lick of research next time.
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Glad, you returned safely with your daughter, Caldef, and didn't get made into a statistic, memorial, and/or news article.
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I left New York early into Covid after 8 years glad it appears it was the right decision.

I miss the good times I had. Especielly from
2012 to 2016/2018 but around that time
Before Covid the writing was on the wall.
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