I hate New York
After so many years of living here I am finally pulling the plug and leaving. I dont even know how did this happened. I used to love this city so much. Since I was a teenager I was literally obsessed with it. All throughout my 20s I was so happy here. Went to college here, took the subway everyday for years. Met so many awesome ppl, had fun, and now somehow it all makes me sick. The crowds, the dirty streets, the bad air, the junkies, the fucking 4 dollar croissants, the nasty subways. How did I ever love this place? How does it happen that you go from love to hate in few years. I just walked by a fancy restaurant and in front of it a pile of trash and right next to it in little nook was a junkie pissing in plain sight. I look around and I dont any anything beautiful anymore. I feel so sad and confused.
Your needs change as you get older
Yep, think I am just getting older
Any place seems worthwhile with great friends and relationships. Perhaps you are lacking those and it makes you notice the shitty parts of the city.
Its not that. I do have lot of great friends here. Like I said I been here long time. When I came here at 20 years old I knew no one and loved it here.
Yea, the thought that you might be inhaling some junkys piss whenever you turn a corner is enough to make you want to leave that place, great friends or no
NY stinks of marijuana. Young people love the stink, old people hate it
Among many other things! Its not just weed..
Is $4 krosan cheap or expensive?
Expensive!
From Seattle, and that seems like a good deal. 😅
Yea, come to California and enjoy 😏
Is that sarcastic? :) thats where I am going actually, in few months
So you’re going to the place that has 30% of all the country’s homeless people? New York is much cleaner than la or sf
NYC changed substantially in the last 3 years…saying this as someone who has lived in the city for 13 years now. The city is way different now than what it was pre-COVID.
In what way you feel that way? I been here for 15 and I feel like its been like this always. Except maybe the junkies
Junkies & homeless are definitely more prevalent. Subway feels much less safe than it used to. I’ve had multiple friends mugged in the last year whereas only knew a small handful that had been mugged in the previous 10 years. The smell of weed everywhere was def a change after they legalized it (not COVID related). About a third of all businesses that used to operate on the main street in my neighborhood have closed down and there have been few new businesses that have taken their place.
I used to want to move to California as a kid. I was obsessed with skateboarding and so living in a city like LA and skating everyday with reckless abandon was my goal. I never went, i stayed in North Carolina. But the city i live in, Charlotte, has had explosive growth. To the point that it’s getting to be a small DC, Atlanta, whatever big city is out there and i absolutely HATE it. I wish it was like how it was when i was younger. Where i could drive and see an actual field, where i wouldn’t see a luxury apartment on every corner, where there wouldn’t be traffic everywhere. I find myself wanting to go out to the country so i can have some fresh air and some space to be a human being and not an employee at X company. Long story short, your needs change as you get older. You may need a change of scenery yourself.
This is when you move to Florida
Not a good idea. Traffic is not worth it.
If you have a bunch of things going on, you might feel bored if you end up moving away. I travel a lot partly to scope out different cities to potentially move to. NY is hard (maybe impossible?) to beat in terms of variety and density of activities, restaurants, and event venues.
No place is perfect. Wherever you go you will find something that will make you want to leave. The trick is whether good is more than bad or not.
While true but pointless. You are ignoring the fact that some places are better than ever, and even if a place is comparatively better than other places you are also ignoring the fact that people can have dismayed feelings when a place has gotten objectively worse. Maybe satan can use your line to fresh arrivals in hell