I grew up in the South, and I think NYC is great - 11/10/2021

I'm from the South and the perception I had was that New York was a filthy slum full of sketchy people and crime. I visited it, and it's actually on the other end of the spectrum. I visited for a week on the subway, out all day, and not once did I feel threatened. Compared to Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio, NYC feels super safe! There's so many more sketchy people elsewhere. I found out that NYC nowadays homes 95% of their homeless people (literally 95% -- look on Wikipedia). There's no trash and you can feel the money flowing everywhere

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Charlotte Nc vs NYC , New York - 9/11/2021

New York City is crazy Great there are to many things to do and see in NYC for anyone to ever complain about the city other than most Of the population with stacked on each other, Price’s of everything there is high that’s fact . But we get what we pay for right— I cannt lie my first Experience of the city I couldn’t wait to leave Being from Charlotte , North Carolina , NYC and Charlotte or like night and day both cities have an advantages of living in them but hands down NYC has so much more to Experience year round NYC is on a different scale all together one with a southern charm and one with a bold in your face feel. Rude people in booth cites anyone says different Just haven’t been to either city . Crime in Charlotte is higher with only a 2 million Population and NYC with its 8.8 Million population that Just crazy , Pollution of all forms greater in New York City compared to Charlotte Roads New York City is by far worse than Charlotte In my view I love New York City but there’s no place like home!!!

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new york still sucks - 8/3/2021

filthy. deplorable. weak character. the people of new york aren't classy, they're not even decent. rude, obnoxious, arrogant, and smug, and to make it all worse there's so many of them. there/s just so many ****ing people, you're up to your eyeballs in people. plus everything is way too expensive and the police and government are completely corrupt. new york is a chaotic hell hole, its a portrait of modern american dystopia. but the people here have been told this is the best place in the world and thats why their all there, and they believe it. they eat that **** up. which is cute, but its wrong, its crazy, they're prisoners in hell and they dont know it. you should go to new york to see it, but just look around and then quickly get the **** out.

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Should i move soon? - 7/21/2021

I might move here when i get older because of its culture and size

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Overly ugly city, way too expensive, AND BORING! - 4/29/2021

I lived here my whole life, ugly city, rude people, even rude neighbors! Everyone is overly worked and there is NOTHING fun to do! I couldn't even find an arcade or nice place on my birthday! ABSOLUTELY NOT child friendly! They think all kids need is a crappy overcrowded playground! Real city of sin! My daughter is 10 years old and I can see the depression in her from living here! Go move to a nice vacation spot or something with all your money and don't listen to the hype, New Jersey is way better, more fun to do! If you only love bars, this is your place because that's the ONLY thing they offer for you to do here, drink! And not even have fun while you're doing it! Miserable people, miserable city, I'm going to Jersey to buy my house! No thanks NYC!

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Don't Fight The Last War by Moving to NYC - 3/3/2021

As our culture becomes more atomized, NYC - the singles capital of the world - is the showroom for the rest of the US of what's to come. It USED to be a great city... back when there was such a thing as culture in this country, true friendship existed, and romance was a real possibility. Now that social media has removed any possibility for a counterculture to exist and form new trends, the only culture phenomena that form are created by corporate committees with a profit motive. Friendships are useless in NYC unless they can be documented for social media. And, romantic entanglements are as meaningful as the swipe of one's thumb. Consequently, it's no surprise that NYC has become a cultural and spiritual wasteland - unless you think seeing the Broadway version of The Lion King is culture. Friendships are fleeting and dating is a total nightmare. I've lived in NYC for nearly 20 years. I'm rich. I moved here broke and made it in NYC. I have nothing to complain about. It's been good to me. But, it has ZERO to offer at this point. The restaurants suck, are overcrowded and overpriced even by NYC standards, the people hate each other, and there's nothing to do other than sit in your apartment and brag to your friends back in Springfield that you're in NYC. What's the point? If you're young and want to start your career, you can do that anywhere now and you don't have to give up your entire paycheck for a crappy apartment as the price of entry. Start your life elsewhere. I'm off to Miami (Feb 2021).

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Don't Move Here...and Here's Why...... - 2/17/2021

I've lived here my entire life and in the last year, since the moronic mayor partially defunded the police by $1,000,000,000.00, and his wife stole $850,000,000.00 to allegedly do something about the homeless/mentally ill problem we have, CRIME HAS NEVER BEEN DO AWFUL. Broad daylight gun point robberies in good neighborhoods - in fact, there have been at least 3 bank robberies in Flatiron/Union Square/Chelsea in the last 6 months alone - you can be assaulted on any street in Manhattan....it is no longer the well known "bad neighborhoods" that you seek to stay out of...the crime has now spread across the entire city. And, the homeless population has grown and many of these are clinically insane - and, they are violent, as well. The streets are not safe, even during the day. Just yesterday, gun point robbery for bike and another one for a cell phone. The other problem is TRASH...New York is DIRTY AND DANGEROUS...oh, and the genius that is the mayor took 100,000,000 from the budge of our sanitation force...so go figure.....don't come here, it's not worth it. We are leaving by April, 2021. This place is not what it used to be....THE CRIMINALS OWN THIS TOWN NOW....sad, very sad.

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The land of opportunity not quality - 12/14/2020

Born and raised in queens. if you don’t know how to hustle and aren’t prepared to work multiple jobs/multiple incomes you won’t do well in NY. Unless you’re a doctor or something, This is a dog eat dog city. As awful as that sounds that’s what makes NYC so great. The natural average resident understands that. Frank Sinatra saying if you can make it here you can make it anywhere is absolutely fact. The food options are amazing as it’s one of the most diverse places on earth. I want to move as I’m done with it to be honest. I want a nice house, vegetables and other things that come with quality of life. Quality of life in NY is based on how smooth your commute time is and if you can avoid paying tolls. Too expensive for young people like me even on a good salary. I would have left years ago if it wasn’t for my family. It gets a 2 for food and family for me.

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NYC Both Good & Bad - 2/22/2020

I was born & raised in NYC. During the time I grew up there is was a GREAT place to live & grow up. However, over the years it changed. It is expensive to live, but so are a lot of other places with far less to offer. NYC has so much to do it is nearly impossible to be bored unless you are broke. There is seemingly nothing that you can't get there. Transportation is plentiful and affordable. If you don't think so, try living some place like NC or Baltimore. While Baltimore has a train & bus system it is not comprehensive at all. NYC is quite crowded, but for some that is the attraction. People draw energy from other people so this is what makes NYC so electric!! If you are not a people person or you have a phobia of crowds then I suppose NYC is not for you. The NYC public school system sucked out loud as I can recall which is why in 1997 my ex-husband and I decided to leave with our 3 kids. That was 23 years ago, so I am uncertain what it is like now, but I can't imagine that it is any better today. So I guess what I am saying is that like any place else NYC has its good and bad. From what I am to understand there is a lot of gentrification that is going on there now. So certain areas that weren't the best back when I still lived there are now better. While some areas that I remember being pretty good are now considered bad. I still rate NYC a 3 because all in all NYC still has a lot more going for it than a lot of other places (and I am solely basing this off the other 2 places that I have lived). On the other side, what contributes to giving NYC a 3 is the fact that I would not move back there today. One of the reasons is because while some of the changes I mentioned above can be considered good, I am older now and having to start over learning the City that I once knew very well would be considered a set-back for me. OH and yes the prices for where I would want to live today is probably out of my price range, although if you think Maryland doesn't have $8.5 gazillion dollar homes without the view or land etc you would be wrong. Other states can be just as pricey or pricier without any reason or cause.

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NYC Both Good & Bad - 2/22/2020

I was born & raised in NYC. During the time I grew up there is was a GREAT place to live & grow up. However, over the years it changed. It is expensive to live, but so are a lot of other places with far less to offer. NYC has so much to do it is nearly impossible to be bored unless you are broke. There is seemingly nothing that you can't get there. Transportation is plentiful and affordable. If you don't think so, try living some place like NC or Baltimore. While Baltimore has a train & bus system it is not comprehensive at all. NYC is quite crowded, but for some that is the attraction. People draw energy from other people so this is what makes NYC so electric!! If you are not a people person or you have a phobia of crowds then I suppose NYC is not for you. The NYC public school system sucked out loud as I can recall which is why in 1997 my ex-husband and I decided to leave with our 3 kids. That was 23 years ago, so I am uncertain what it is like now, but I can't imagine that it is any better today. So I guess what I am saying is that like any place else NYC has its good and bad. From what I am to understand there is a lot of gentrification that is going on there now. So certain areas that weren't the best back when I still lived there are now better. While some areas that I remember being pretty good are now considered bad. I still rate NYC a 3 because all in all NYC still has a lot more going for it than a lot of other places (and I am solely basing this off the other 2 places that I have lived). On the other side, what contributes to giving NYC a 3 is the fact that I would not move back there today. One of the reasons is because while some of the changes I mentioned above can be considered good, I am older now and having to start over learning the City that I once knew very well would be considered a set-back for me. OH and yes the prices for where I would want to live today is probably out of my price range, although if you think Maryland doesn't have $8.5 gazillion dollar homes without the view or land etc you would be wrong. Other states can be just as pricey or pricier without any reason or cause.

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Save yourself, visit maybe but don't live. - 1/19/2020

I've lived here for the past 20 years, NY has not changed, the minor changes are things for attractions for tourists nothing has been done for the people living here. Crime is still crazy, Housing/living is a major scam, New York is a dream killer, not a maker.

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new pork city - 12/21/2019

NY's always been rubbish. It was rubbish 30 years ago, and it;s rubbish now. I am not a huge fan of NY or it's surrounding suburbs. It's where being mean is the norm. If someone's nice to you, you start asking yourself, why's this person being nice. Does he have an alterior motive? It;s like the worst people from all over the world all decided they would move to NY. The people of NY are what makes the area so bad. New Yorkers are a bunch of savages. I injured my foot once, and took the elevator in the subway, and a crazed New Yorker with a heavy New York accent was harasing me about not being old or in a wheel chair. Aparently to them, only permanently disabled, or seniors can take the elevator. Another crazed New Yorker kept banging on the door of the bathroom in a medical building. And when I didn't open the door for him, he became very triggered. My first impression of New Yorkers is that they are greedy, and selfish. Not all, but that's the impression they give me when compared with other states (outside of the northeast). The entire northeast gives me bad vibes. I include the tristate area because alot of the people who live there are actually former residents of NYC, so they're basically the same crowd of people. You got all these people around you but so what? No one trusts each other. You meet more people in 1 week in Alabama than you do in a year in NY. A lot of these people who like NY actually have very strange priorities. Many of them think that because they can make a lot of money in NY, they can tolerate, or accept all the bad people, but that's something I can't overlook. Making money in exchange for a bad environment is not worth it. NY drivers there are amongst the worst. You try to signal for a lane change. Instead of slowing down, they speed up so you can't get into the lane. There's alot of traffic in NY. If you try traveling on the 278 in Brooklyn, you can forget about it. There's traffic jams there even on Sunday! You;re looking at 1hr travel time for under 10 miles at any given time during the weekdays. The race relations are bad. The tristate area is very segregated. If you go into some of the malls like Queens center, you;ll notice that whites are with whites, spanish with spanish, etc. NY also seems much more racist than the south. NY is too expensive. You're looking at living at only the ghettos of Queens if you have a million dollars. That;s right. $1.3 mil in some dodgy neighborhood in Queens. Another thing I noticed about NY is that you wouldn't necesarily want to raise your kids there. There's limited space for kids to do things, and honestly, New Yorkers do not seem to trust each other. Who would want their kids to grow up in that kind of environment? I don;t know what it;s like now, but back in the 90s, kids were carrying weapons to protect themselves, even in the NY burbs. Another problem I have with NY is that many people don't speak English, which creates a bit of distance between people because they don't share a common language, or culture. It seems like there are more foreigners than anything else. I can't remember the last time I saw an American in most NY suburbs. The ones who are American are usually short term residents. A lot of people talk about NY's multiculturalism as a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing. When you got people speaking their languages, it creates divisions, and barriers. You can live in many parts of NY and never know your neighbor. People keep to themselves. Worst of all, people are scared of each other. In Manhattan, you got a lot of vultures from all around the world and country, so these people are really suspicious of each other because they are scammers, and scammers are careful with who they talk to, that's why you see New Yorkers usually keep to themselves. People move to NY for several reasons. 1) you're a scammer, and you want to hustle people. 2) you're a foreigner and want to be close to your countrymen. 3) some fools see NY on tv and think it's cool, or read about it in a magazine. If you're not a scammer, or foreigner, then there's very little reason to be in NY. It's no wonder so many NYers are moving to Florida. For most people, there's just no point being there. The weather is garbage too, especially in the winter, but summers suck too. It's hot, humid, and wet. Transportation is also garbage. It takes nearly an hour just to travel a couple of miles, something that would take 10 minutes if you were in South Carolina. Honestly, the only good thing about NY is that the cops don't really hassle you for little things, but then that also becomes a problem because people just break the law constantly, and you can see that by how people are always double parked. It's also a very noisy city. People honking their horns all the time. Drunk people coming home at night, yelling on the street. Dogs barking. It;'s true what some people say about NY benefits. They are good, but is it worth it to live in NY just for the benefits? I would live just about anywhere except NY. I will even settle for 3 world countries, at least the people there are nice, and things are cheap. For all the people who talk about there being a lot to do. While that may be true, sometimes, it just doesn't work out. Take for example the Halloween parade, and Thanksgiving day parade. Looks great on paper right? Wrong. All streets are sealed off, so you are stuck in 1 place the whole time, whereas in other states, you can walk around most parades freely. In other words, you can find a better viewing position, whereas you can't in NY. If you go to the Thanksgiving day parade, you better show up early, real early, otherwise you won't get a good position. Compare this to other states, and you can show up at any time, and get a good position. You want good seats for a show, try paying $350 for decent seats at the radio city xmas spectacular. What you get in TX for $10 tacos, spageti, apple pie, apple cobbler, banana peach pie, mash potatos gravy, salad, pizza, etc. All you can eat buffet. What you get in NY for $10, a steak sandwich. Some people say that NY is only good for a vacation. I'd say it's not even good for that. For $100, you get a real nice hotel suite in Texas. For $100 in NY, you can't even get a motel 6. Whether you're a tourist, renter, or home owner, it aint going to work, it just aint. 1 bedrooms in midtown are going for over $3000. A lot of people say that NY is great for culture, and the arts, so before you even think about moving to NY, ask yourself this, do you even go to museums in your hometown, if the answer is no, then why move to NY? If you didn't go to museums back home, then you probably aint going to in NY, and if arts, and culture is NYs main attraction, then it's pointless. Parking is a problem, you're looking at parking in the ghetto for $8.50 for 2hrs. In the city, $13 for 2hrs, and that's only after 6pm. You can't even park there during business hours even if you wanted to pay $13. Can you imagine going to see your doctor, and paying $8.50 each time. That's what you got to deal with in NY.

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Biggest wasted opportunity in the USA - 8/9/2019

I moved to new york when I came to the USA from Dominican republic, and it took for my parents and me to move to FL to see how bad NYC is. I unfortunately find myself here again because in my line of work, it's a lot easier to find work in NYC and then transfer to a better place. 1. prohibitively expensive: obviously any city is gonna be more expensive than the surrounding area, but oh my god living here is expensive. housing is the biggest part of that, no doubt in big part to all the gov't regulations on rent control making it very risky to build here, which leads to my second problem: 2. oppressive, bloated ineffective government: NYC has to have the biggest, most overreaching state and local government in the country, besides maaaaaybe San Francisco. the burden of regulation is a big reason living here is so expensive, and it makes opening up a business unnecessarily difficult. basic american rights like firearm ownership are effectively nonexistent, and conveniences everyone else enjoys like making a right on a red light are also gone, in government's futile attempt to make life "safe" while forgetting that the best way to make people safe it to let them be free. 3. too many people: I know that the big city, and the big crowds of times square are something everyone wants to see about NYC, but it's not worth the headaches such insane population density causes. congestion is a daily problem, making getting to work unless you leave extremely early very difficult, and since so few have the money to have a house, nearly everyone parks on the street. finding parking can take a considerable amount of time. 4. weather: this one is kind of subjective. I personally really dislike cold weather, and everything it brings along with it. my job has me work outside every day, so you can imagine how much I dread winter. Aside from personal preferences though, snow is actually a big economic, and logistic, convenience, and safety burden for everyone. My mother hurt herself slipping on some black ice, and it's not like my mom doesn't know how to walk carefully. If you're already super-rich, a lot of the problems listed above are something you might not have to really deal with, unlike the rest of us plebeians. and the fact that sooo many people live here makes NYC a place of huge potential opportunity; it's just held back by the out of control left-wing politics, and its geography. I will say though, the water here is amazing; it's the secret ingredient in New York Pizza

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New York Rocks - 12/4/2018

Love New York City

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New York has many issues very expensive - 6/15/2018

New York has always been expensive but I think even the least expensive areas are around $1800 in Manhattan just for a studio apartment. City is very safe for a city this size but not safe like a small city or town. Public transportation is great but not cheap. Need a good paying job to live here..

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Compare with Minneapolis - 10/9/2016

I am lacking sunshine and am depressed w the gloom and long length of winter. Should I move to NYC?

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Hard to Find Affordable Housing - 2/25/2016

The New York City housing market is pricey and competitive. It is nearly impossible to find an apartment that rents for less than $1000 per month. As a result, many people share an apartment or rent a room. Room rental is a very common solution for the housing problem. Craigslist is widely used to bring tenants and landlords together.

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Manhattan is its own city now let's save the plane - 12/5/2015

You are misleading your readers by including Manhattan, New York in with New York City, in which you state that 8 counties are included with that one city ... Ummmm NO and the population for Manhattan is definitely not over 8 million people with a median household size of 2.6 or whatever. But they have done the same thing in Los Angeles (taken most but not all of the cities within the County of Los Angeles calling it one city (including the San Fernando Valley starting in Woodland Hills which now has matching signs to prove we are indeed Los Angeles with 4 million plus residents and bringing changing the median income, household size, etc ... Bringing the middle and rich down and the poor up. How can u compare for example a million dollar brownstone (owned apartment or townhouse in CA) in Manhattam to anything not in Manhattan or even to rent a place in the "city" costs 4K or more for a one bedroom. That's like in California grouping my 289k condo to whatever u would find in say Watts then taking the average ... Cities r city's for a reason as they have their own zip codes (sometimes 2 or more), post office, library etc, people live where they live because of the area or the weather ... Prime example the weather in Woodland Hills is approximately 10 degrees hotter that the city of Los Angeles itself so how can you group cities into one with such different definitions of hot. You can't. Los Angeles like Manhatten is its own a city but so is Brooklyn, Woodland Hills. You need to stop grouping cities together b/c the climate change is your fault. Cities like people move at different speeds and by putting someone super slow with someone stuck on super sonic is going to have deadly concequences for the world as a whole b/c it can't be pulled in every direction and eventually like tendon it's going to snap.

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NYC - 11/16/2015

I've worked in NYC for just over 17 years.

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NYC.. It has it all - 7/11/2015

Living in Manhattan my whole life and having traveled the wide world, i consider NYC to be the center of my universe. East to west, from lower Manhattan to half up the island at about 110th St, everything a person wants and needs in life can be found here, except a beach. Culture, restaurants, parks and recreation, shopping, hospitals and health care, the 4 seasons, public transport , craziness and solitude, and a train , bus or ferry ride away from the other 4 boroughs that comprise the whole of NYC. It takes a lifetime or two just to see all of Manhatta ( as the Native Indians called it), referring to this "island of hills". Home of the knish, pizza slices, the pastrami on rye sandiwich, burgers, hot dogs, NY Yankees, NY Mets, NY Knicks, Brooklyn Nets, NY Rangers, NY Islanders, NY Giants and NY Jets...what else did i miss? 24/7 ..the city never sleeps but when you need to escape you eventually come home to #1.

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