I could never live in NYC

Look, she won the argument she created in her head!

It’s a common conversation though. I live in a big city and people who live in rural areas say this to me all the time. I just shrug my shoulders and say, “ya, good, live where makes you happy.”
- I totally believe the part about people commenting “I could never live in X place” unprompted and I’m all for people living wherever makes them happy!
  It’s the rest of the post that reads like someone trying to think of a clever comeback in their shower hours after the conversation already ended.
- Yep live where you like.
  . I hate living in the city. I walk. ALOT. I love walking in my rural area, fishing, camping, engaging with neigbors and meeting the lady downtown street who makes gluten free cupcakes ( amazing).
  Its what i like
  I know people who rave about the things they can do that I can't. And I love how happy they are living where they love
  People need nature, and they need each other. So live where your needs are met the. Most and stay happy.
  Your attitude is best. Let's all be happy for those who can live where they love. Because Many can't.
- Some of the rural people I know are extended family and if I take them at face value what they are essentially explaining sounds like some yet to be undefined personality disorder.
  They all circle around a set of claims that amount to an inability to adhere to basic social skills that even the most neurodivergent person manages to perform.
All of those shampoo bottles were WRONG!
Look, I found the losers who say shit like “I could never live in NYC”!
- Cool, I bet you blew their feeble little peasant minds with pictures of your special subway chair.

I wish my city had half the transportation of New York.

I would take half the restaurants.
- Ah, I see what you did there...
Wish granted, you have all the cars, but no trains or buses.

I do love the looks of bus drivers when you get on with a load of crap in your hands.

One time, I had to fetch two larger packages from the post office, so when I got onto the bus, I really had to aim to fit through the door and also prop up my ticket in my right hand, so I could still hold the packages with both hands. And the bus driver just looked at me like "ehm... okay... I guess, we doin package delivery then".

Another time, I went shopping in the next city over and after half an hour, I got back onto the bus with four packed shopping bags and saw that it was the same bus driver who brought me into the city. And he clearly saw that I had just been shopping and nothing else, so he gave me a look of "well, that's convenient, that you've got your personal chauffeur". 🙃

When you nutted but she still sucking
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- While I enjoy your use of reddit as a pejorative, ass will always be high prise for me, so thank you.

I guess I don't understand the reference. How else are you going to get something you bought back to your place? This doesn't seem weird. I'm not in or from, and have never been to, NYC though, so I'm probably missing something lol

Its an infrequent question you get if you dont own a car in the US. With mass transit generally being shit everywhere, but slightly less shit in cities, people who dont live in cities think moving things around is impossible, because a car is the only possibility that they are personally acquainted with.
Its not impossible, just vaguely awkward sometimes as this meme shows, which is a solid tradeoff for not having to deal with all the bullshit owning a car entails.
- Right. Think of all the few times you might need to buy something truly cumbersome and bulky that can’t realistically be brought home via mass transit. Now, think of how much it might cost to have that item delivered - a service readily available in cities.
  Calculate up how much a car costs, insurance, fuel, maintenance, and parking, and to be fair, subtract mass transit costs.
  Compare that to the rare delivery.
  See if you’re better off, saving money, not having a car.
  On the rare occasion you do want a car for long-distances not practical by air or other transit, rent one.
  Source: lived in a major metro area. Car was a real burden having the expense of it, parking it, and having to be on watch all the time for street sweeping or snow days where you couldn’t park on the street. The subway was cheap, accessible, and far quicker than driving the vast majority of the time.
- I mean it's awkward if you're moving a chair. Moving house though can be a real pain if you're not paying for movers.
  I think the association here is more "you barely even walk into Walmart, I carry my house with my own legs when move."
I think it's because... "rural" people who shit on NYC, yet have never set foot in a modern American city, will hear shit on Fox News and literally believe that the NYC subway is a warzone for rival vagrants to fight to the death, and there's no way you'd be able to transport something like that without it being stolen, or broken, etc.
I also don't get it.
Obviously they are not the same if one is comfortable in NYC, on the subway with a chair, and the other one is not.
Is this an idiom I don't understand? We are not the same? Is it like Kendrick Lamar saying "they not like us"?

My ex made me carry a window unit air conditioner someone was throwing away to the subway, take two trains then carry it home. She was visiting from New Orleans and didn't believe me when I said people leave shit like that on the sidewalk all the time in New York. It was fall. I could very well find another one closer to home.

Says the guy who would get scared by the noise if a squirrel in the woods at night.
Point being. No.. You ain't one for not living in a city, and they ain't one for not wanting to

I live in NYC and never leave the house now what

Do you just...live chairless?
- Sometimes I take a break and catch a seat on the turlet.
- You can have chairs delivered
Boom, roasted.

My apologies to everyone the one time I needed to get a coffee table to my new apartment on 179st. I was a really broke student and it was too heavy to lug.

One day some lady brought her full grocery store cart she took from No Frills on the bus. I think the driver was just too tired to argue.
- Truth be told I think they just let the passengers work it out. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTGKti2-X0

Weirdest thing I've brought on public transit:

Agreed, but at least the two chairs you brought provided a nice table for that plant.

I'd love to work in NYC as a bartender, but it being in the US is a big turnoff

If you're referring to the anti-immigrant shit, then NYC is probably one of the safest places in the country you could stay in that regard. They value multiculturalism there.
- As long as you make it past immigration and customs at the airport.
Yes, I concur. Have been coming to the US since 1992, no more. The last time was 2023 and I don't forsee anytime soon I'll be returning.
Come to Toronto! It's like NYC lite

Okay so I saw someone yesterday also walking home with a chair, but my real question is who the fuck needs just one single dining room chair? Do y'all not have sets?

I mean, I don't even have a dining room so I guess who am I to talk but it was just confusing to me.

Unless you have an apartment worth a few million, you don’t have room for a whole ass dining set
Would you want to carry an entire dining room set while walking or taking the subway home?
It would be difficult to carry even just two non-folding chairs without inadvertently being an asshole to people around you, unless the sidewalks were dead.
- Could you imagine carrying home 3 chairs of a set one-at-a-time and finding out that they just stopped selling that style?
Who says she just has one? She might be taking one chair a day home.

There is a Czech saying "Kdo židli má, bydlí": Who has a chair, lives (in the reside sense).

dwells?

Does that chair have a hole in the center?

How else you going to poop on the subway?
- People will find a way.
That's the bottom of the chair, not a hole
Such a portable toilet might be great for shit posting whilst waiting for the train.
Unfortunately someone needs to photoshop a bit of the background platform colour in there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNfBF2xvhaE&list=PLD19BCF9D57320E03&index=4&pp=iAQB

It doubles as a weapon on the train once the cage match ensues. Most people use folding chairs, but this one isn't fucking around.

We're not the same. I like being able to go on a hike after taking 20 steps from my front door. I like hearing and seeing new birds regularly from my window. I like walking my dog without suffocating on the smog of the Manhattan streets.

It's funny how you can immediately tell when someone has never been to a big city
- I've been to New York 4 times and to new England many many times. Funny how YOU can't tell. Sometimes I like to say things that get people riled up. Like saying I like living in the city that I live in. I'm sorry I'm happy?
- It's funny how you can immediately tell when someone has never been outside of a big city
Not counting nice walks in prospect Park, I can get on the metro north train and go on a variety of hikes. It's not 20 steps, but I also get all the other benefits of a city.
Also Manhattan isn't known for smog, and there is a lot more to New York than Manhattan. Go look at like park slope or Astoria
- I had to go into CVS to escape the air in Manhattan. Granted I've only been to Manhattan and Brooklyn, those are "city" parts, which this post refers to.
I'm a little amused by the down votes.
Yes some cities have a lot of perks, no the air quality isn't as bad as the 60s, but pretending that taking the metro to the park is comparable to living in a forest is a little silly.
- I'm amused too. People are offended that I prefer living in nature compared to a concrete jungle. That's my preference. Live where you want folks. I'm not your mommy.
I'm from the country side and I very much like easy access to nature, but New York is a great city, especially with all the parks! The subway is bomb
Yeah, I think you're being a bit hyperbolic, but I generally agree. I live about an hour from Manhattan (from the Holland, and then another hour to get through lololol), but I'm fifteen minutes from a reservoir that you can hike and boat, fifteen minutes from farms. My town is walkable, and I can walk to a hospital, grocery store, and library in, you guessed it, fifteen minutes. I'm an hour and change from the shore, about the same from the Poconos. I like having access to all the places, but I like to live in suburbia.
Smog hasn't been a problem in US cities since like the 60s...
- More like the '90s and the Montreal protocol, but yeah. It ain't what it was. Now it's wildfire smoke from Canada!
- Bad air quality still exists. Sorry I'm just not used to that quality of air. My bad?
- I live about sixty miles east, and a mile above, Los Angeles. There’s a few spots on the road to my house that have a direct line of sight to the DTLA skyscrapers. Which I can actually see approximately 5 days a year, when specific wind conditions blow away all the smog.
  The sky’s certainly less brown than it used to be, but it’s still brown.

She put that thing down a tramp will immediately come sleep on it.

I could never live in NYC… the homelessness problem is too widespread in pretty much all of US cities.

I'm confident whatever you are imagining is not the daily lived experience of new york city. People picture like times square in 1973 on new years eve and also classic film the warriors. Go look at like park slope on google street view (or another similar service of your choosing).
- I went through Penn Station more times than I would have wanted. Arriving and leaving from there twisted my stomach in a knot, I wouldn’t be able to handle it every day.
The homelessness epidemic is a problem everywhere in the US. You just notice it in cities because of the population density.
Cape Cod, the famous summer vacation hotspot south of Boston, has the highest rates of drug addiction and homelessness in the entire state. The same is largely true of any vacation area, actually. They often have the highest rates in their state due to high CoL and poor job opportunities outside of low wage jobs in the tourism industry (all of which are seasonal jobs as well, meaning they close when the tourists leave).
But out of sight, out of mind.