New York! New York!...Not again.
Okay, here's where I get crucified. Bring it on.
I hate New York. Well, not really hate it. I know it's a wonderful place, a cultural mecca, etc. But it's also a human sewer. It's over done, not for me. At any given time, half the state is on I-95 South, anyway, heading for Myrtle Beach or Florida, so there are New Yorkers who also feel that way.
My only experience with the Big Apple is changing planes once at LaGuardia and getting stuck in a 5-hour traffic jam in the Bronx the same day, driving down from Boston. But I would never go there, except to pick up money. Somebody has to go to the other places.
I have long stopped reading any novel or viewing any t.v. or movie that is set in New York City, either in whole or in part. I won't even go back to great novels I've missed and read them if set there.(I think I'm probably an idiot for that one). I refuse to patronize Manhattan.
It might be more my aversion to the cold influencing me here, because I love L.A.-set stories, Florida-set ones, anything in the warmer climes. Well, you can have Phoenix, though hot as hell in summer, the way I like it. And I would never read a book set in Wyoming, another cold place in winter. Mostly because Wyoming doesn't really exist. It's an old Indian word meaning "The Place Doesn't Exist." And I don't think this would bother the Wyoming crowd, either, a people who live on rock farms with their horses.
Anybody have any pros or cons on this New York thing?
I hate New York. Well, not really hate it. I know it's a wonderful place, a cultural mecca, etc. But it's also a human sewer. It's over done, not for me. At any given time, half the state is on I-95 South, anyway, heading for Myrtle Beach or Florida, so there are New Yorkers who also feel that way.
My only experience with the Big Apple is changing planes once at LaGuardia and getting stuck in a 5-hour traffic jam in the Bronx the same day, driving down from Boston. But I would never go there, except to pick up money. Somebody has to go to the other places.
I have long stopped reading any novel or viewing any t.v. or movie that is set in New York City, either in whole or in part. I won't even go back to great novels I've missed and read them if set there.(I think I'm probably an idiot for that one). I refuse to patronize Manhattan.
It might be more my aversion to the cold influencing me here, because I love L.A.-set stories, Florida-set ones, anything in the warmer climes. Well, you can have Phoenix, though hot as hell in summer, the way I like it. And I would never read a book set in Wyoming, another cold place in winter. Mostly because Wyoming doesn't really exist. It's an old Indian word meaning "The Place Doesn't Exist." And I don't think this would bother the Wyoming crowd, either, a people who live on rock farms with their horses.
Anybody have any pros or cons on this New York thing?
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Permalink Reply by p-squared on -
I guess I was conditioned by my upbringing to say "New York City? Get a rope!" However, I found myself going there (in total dread) on a Navy ship as part of Fleet Week (pre-9/11).
What a great town. We got Chinese food delivered to the ship at 5 a.m. You can't get Chinese food delivered to you at 5 a.m. in Hong Kong, even if you're sober!
I am still in awe of just how BIG everything was, from our vantage point in Hell's Kitchen.
I realize a great deal of the warmth and friendliness we received from New Yorkers was due to being on liberty in our sailor uniforms (I never got her name, but her breasts were magnificent), but I'm looking forward to getting back there again some day.
Kind of like my stepmother's house, nice to visit but I don't think I could live there.
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Permalink Reply by JackBludis on
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I love New York. It is a lot safer than many another city. It is a clean city as well.
if you like Theater? How can you miss a weekend in New York.
The city has changed over the years. I visit two or three times a year and fall in love with it again every time I come up the Jersey Turnpike and see the skyline.
I even look forward the usually jammed circular ramp into the Lincoln Tunnel, and trying to figure out how I get up town from where the tunnel empties.
There are great small restaurants, and interesting people, locals as well as tourists.
I haven't had the experience of the no-vehicle Times Square yet. I'm not sure I'll like it, but at least I'll give it a a chance.
The truth is that I prefer stories about New York and Los Angeles than other places.
Explaining New York though is like a soccer fan trying to explain to me what a great game it is or like me trying to explain the attraction of golf to a non-golfer.
Hell, we all have opinions, and yours is as good as anyone's about New York or anyplace or anything else. We don't have to agree about things.
When I was a boy of ten, I didn't believe Chicago existed ... but I digress.
Jack Bludis
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