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[blacktoothgrin]

one of my dreams is to go to nyc

the city that never sleeps
(better slip you an ambien)

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

Every time I go to NYC it makes me sad that kids can't go play in their yards outside, or with their neighbors in the street.

what are you talking about

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR SON WAS AT HOME
CRYIN ALL ALONE ON THE BEDROOM FLOOR

[Z. S. Ghost]

Every time I go to NYC it makes me sad that kids can't go play in their yards outside, or with their neighbors in the street.

what are you talking about

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR SON WAS AT HOME
CRYIN ALL ALONE ON THE BEDROOM FLOOR

GIRL, YOU AIN'T THE ONLY ONE WITH A BABY! THAT'S NO EXCUSE TO BE LIVING ALL CRAZY...

[David]

I can't conceivably imagine anybody considering anything other than California to be the quintessential American state.

California seems like the quintessential state to people outside of the US. It's actually one of the least representative states of the rest of the country. From a midwestern perspective, a lot of people have the romanticized notions of California (and New York) but just as many people think it's a bunch of hippies.

[Z. S. Ghost]

I can't conceivably imagine anybody considering anything other than California to be the quintessential American state.

California seems like the quintessential state to people outside of the US. It's actually one of the least representative states of the rest of the country. From a midwestern perspective, a lot of people have the romanticized notions of California (and New York) but just as many people think it's a bunch of hippies.

I think whatever wins best state will almost certainly not be the quintessential state, which doesn't particularly exist.

[CH]

I voted for California much higher than New York



Just being up and down the Pacific Coast is awesome. I've been on business to San Diego and San Francisco, visited Monterey and driven through L.A and the whole time I was there I felt refreshed. 75 and sunny is a dream to me, and thats every say in San Diego.

Ive been to NYC often, to Buffalo, Niagara Falls and even though New York City is exciting, it isn't for me. And as a mid-westerner, my list didn't even have a midwest bias. I guess there must be some part of New York I haven't been to that would make me like it a lot more.

[Alicia]

Yeah, Niagara Falls is nice, but I could never live in Buffalo, or ever figure out why that "city" had its own football team. And NYC would be a lot more fun if it had CA's ocean breeze and wasn't 100 degrees + humidity in the summer. CA is nice because you can drive 2 or 3 hours in any direction and hit the ocean, a lake, a river, a cliff, a mountain, a desert, a valley, openness, anything you're searching for.

[B]

Every time I go to NYC it makes me sad that kids can't go play in their yards outside, or with their neighbors in the street.

what are you talking about

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR SON WAS AT HOME
CRYIN ALL ALONE ON THE BEDROOM FLOOR

GIRL, YOU AIN'T THE ONLY ONE WITH A BABY! THAT'S NO EXCUSE TO BE LIVING ALL CRAZY...

EVERY DAY HE WAKES UP HOPING TO DIE

[CH]

Every time I go to NYC it makes me sad that kids can't go play in their yards outside, or with their neighbors in the street.

what are you talking about

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR SON WAS AT HOME
CRYIN ALL ALONE ON THE BEDROOM FLOOR

GIRL, YOU AIN'T THE ONLY ONE WITH A BABY! THAT'S NO EXCUSE TO BE LIVING ALL CRAZY...

[EVERY DAY HE WAKES UP HOPING TO DIE

I would not have guessed this would be the thread that had both a chain posting of a City High song, as well as an argument about which family of pops is better. That just makes it all the better

[Nicholas]

I could never live in Buffalo, or ever figure out why that "city" had its own football team.

Buffalo is kind of like an inside joke for everyone on the east coast. They have a football for the same reason that Green Bay has one...because hell, why not?

[Greene]

Was discussing the virtues (or lack thereof) of the great (and by now completely forgotten) state of Connecticut, and she mentioned a metric I hadn't though of before: proximity. CT is where people live when they want to be close to NYC (I'm about an hour away by train, but was closer previously) but refuse to live in New Jersey and don't want to pay the super high Westchester property taxes. Living in NYC (even the outer burroughs) is extremely expensive (and ever more so as gentrification creeps further out and pushes generational residents out) and it is very difficult to have your own grass to lay on and space for a garden. So yeah, there's that. For the benefits of CA cities you have to live in CA, but for NYC you don't.

[Hirsby]

Honestly, New York is cool, but it's not all that. I mean, I live in Toronto. Once you've been in one world-class city, the novelty of another wears off kinda quickly. For example, an NYC native probably wouldn't be too impressed by coming to Toronto for the first time.