You are so right, I am a NY native & although I don't live there anymore that saying if you can make it there you can make it ANYWHERE is so true. NY has so much to offer that you don't necessarily find elsewhere. Even if you do it's still just not quite the same. For instance, where I live now you see signs everywhere advertising NY Pizza or NY Fried Chicken, ummmm that would be a resounding NO on both. I now know how people from Philly feel when they go somewhere & see signs advertising Philly cheese steak, again ummm NO. I don't know of anywhere else that has as many sports teams as we do either. Yeah NY is pricey and it always has been, but so are some other places. Where I live you find places that cost $8.5 gazillion dollars, and it offers no sights, no transportation (or at least not on NYC's level), and the city is closed between 12:00 & 2:00 am I mean dead as a door nail. While that part isn't as important to me anymore because I am no longer in my 20's, I still would like to know that if I needed to catch a bus or a train at that hour I could. Not to mention if you don't live in the City transportation is limited to owning a car, Lyft or Uber or not going at all. This limits your freedoms and movements which I didn't like being limited as a teenager (you know when your parents limit where and when you can go and when you need to be back) so you know I can't deal with being restricted in my adult years :). Anyway, I enjoyed your post.
Monique | Edgewood, MD | Report Abuse