> Do NYC residents look at the subway as something only poor people use? Honest question, I don’t live there. I don’t consider “associating with the poors” to b

> Do NYC residents look at the subway as something only poor people use? Honest question, I don’t live there. I don’t consider “associating with the poors” to be an impediment at all. It varies depending on the size of the city, in my experience. NYC might be the most egalitarian city in America regarding public transit use. Other large cities are similar or slightly less so. In small cities, it's very much considered a low-income thing.