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Native New Yorkers…do you like living in this city??
This question is for New Yorkers born & raised in NYC or at least have been here from early childhood…I’m curious to know how people who were brought up in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, or Manhattan(sorry SI) feel about living here & working in Manhattan. How about the constant mad rush embedded in many of us, the commute, the environment, the lights, the perma-background noise, etc? Do you love it here & can’t imagine being anywhere else? Is it a love-hate feeling? Can’t wait to get the heck outta here? Most people who are not from here look at this city with stars in their eyes, but we know the real deal. And even though this city has been my life, and has molded it in countless ways, there is a constant friction between my personality and the dynamics of this place(I enjoy unbroken quiet, for one) What’s your take on the big apple & do you plan on sticking around?
Hope I’m an acceptable answerer, born in San Francisco, but lived in NYC since the age of two. I lived in Manhattan 27 years, Queens 8 years, and Staten Island 30 years. Brooklyn is the only borough I’ved never lived in, worked in or gone to school in, so of course my wife is from there and works there.
I guess I’ll continue sticking around, despite having retired two years ago. I enjoy my community involvements, contacts with people I’ve known for many years. Yes, I hate the traffic, and parking is impossible in Manhattan and much of Brooklyn. But I make full use of the vast variety of restaurants. I managed to avoid the commute most of my working life by moving within walking distance of my job. This however followed years of either driving out to Long Island or taking subways (usually the A or the #1, since I lived near those in Manhattan).
My mother hates NYC, and moved out when she retired, landing in a retirement community in Arizona. She hated the subways, the climate, and the noise. Other than the L and long waits on the D I can tolerate the subways. I’m not happy when the temperature goes over 90 and the humidity follows, but everything these days is airconditioned, so I manage. I tune out the noise.
I’ve traveled extensively, and while Santa Barbara wins my prize for prettiest city, and a number of West Coast towns, such as Portland and Seattle, are very nice, I’m not thrilled by anything in Florida (love bugs and humidity), Chicago sucks, and D.C. is blah except for the Smithsonian. Boston has some nice points, but NYC is better.
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