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New York is literally the greatest city in the history of world civilization and the planetary capital of finance, media, business, fashion and culture. It’s ea
by CPLX 8y ago
New York is literally the greatest city in the history of world civilization and the planetary capital of finance, media, business, fashion and culture. It’s easily the largest city in the country, and iconic globally.
But you’re finding it hard to understand why people might want to live here?
I’d post more but my New York life is veritable cornucopia of novel and enriching experiences and I’d better get back to it. Enjoy your stripmalls.
- dbeuwhf 8y agoHahaha. I'm from New Jersey. Go fuck yourself!
- draw_down 8y agoDang, veritable cornucopia eh? That sounds pretty good.
- cm2012 8y agoSaying things like, "Enjoy your stripmalls", actually hurts your argument by indicating a lot of insecurity.
- dmead 8y agoThe west has a lot of strip malls.
- c3534l 8y agoSo does the state of New York.
- rayiner 8y agoNew York doesn’t put Michelin star restaurants in strip malls.
- dmead 8y agoIt's really quite jarring just how many of them there are. sure the east has strip malls, but they just don't seem to take up that much space.
- c3534l 8y agoShow me a single Michelin Star restaurant in the entire United States located in a strip mall. And besides, if they put Michelin Star restaurants in strip malls, they probably wouldn't be the marker of not much going on that they currently are.
- tptacek 8y agoIt didn't even occur to you to simply Google "michelin star" "strip mall"? Of course there are starred restuarants in strip malls.
- c3534l 8y agoI searched Michelin Star restaurants in the US and looked through them and couldn't find any, then posed the challenge. So, yeah, no I didn't actually Google that and I should have.
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- tptacek 8y agoThere's even a three-star in a strip mall if you consider all of Los Gatos a strip mall. (Hey-o!)
- briandear 8y agoOne of the best restaurants in Silicon Valley, Alexander’s in Cupertino is effectively in a strip mall next to a Target and it’s far better than most of the good restaurants in “character-filled” San Francisco locations. It’s so snobby and inaccurate to suggest a strip mall restaurant is “bad.” With the economics of restaurants, a strip mall location is often a great idea.
- Aloha 8y agoSo does Queens.
- woolvalley 8y agoNo, it might be lived experience. I've been to NYC, I live in the bay area. The south bay is surprisingly run down and boring for what it is, it's redeeming qualities being tech, the weather and some nearby nature. The stripmalls exist there and it's a bit strange how shabby everything is compared to the rent. SF is nicer and worse in someways than san jose, and NYC is definitely better from a livability and interesting-ness perspective. Even LA has more culture :p
- ffumarola 8y agoI don't know why the person you're replying to thinks their viewpoint is representative of a wide swath of people? I love NYC, if I was looking for a job this would be a draw for me.
- lostlogin 8y ago> New York is literally the greatest city in the history of world civilization !
- sneak 8y agoSomeone (I forget who) once said that New York’s real specialty is convincing twentysomethings that it is the center of the universe. It certainly seemed that way to me for a long time.
- itronitron 8y agothat partially explains why young people that grow up in NYC don't have driver's licences.
- jsonne 8y agoThis is both arrogant and ignorant at the same time. New York, I'm sure, is a great city, but it is not the end all be all of everything. The next time you sit down at one of your fancy Manhattan restaurants I would encourage you to humbly thank the people from where there are "stripmalls" who made it and most other things in NYC possible. Food, the literal materials for the buildings, the energy renewable or otherwise, basically all the support resources and services that make cities like NYC even possible come from the parts of the world you seem to hold in contempt. No wonder middle America hates the "coastal elites" with an attitude like this.
- humanrebar 8y agoAlso the food in NYC is fine but not head and shoulders above other cities. Especially when you factor in the bill.
- RandallBrown 8y agoI think that food, on average, in NYC is worse than average. There is so much foot traffic in the city that mediocre and bad restaurants can survive, even with high rents. Don't get me wrong, NYC has some amazing food, but my experience has been pretty bad with most restaurants.
- simonebrunozzi 8y ago> "greatest city in the history of world civilization" Woah, hold on your horses. There are plenty of contestants there. Rome. Tenochtitlan. Cairo. Babylon. Etc.
- briandear 8y agoAlso London, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong for some modern contenders. Paris is a close runner up.
- cthalupa 8y ago>New York is literally the greatest city in the history of world civilization and the planetary capital of finance, media, business, fashion and culture. It’s easily the largest city in the country, and iconic globally. So, I mean, I generally agree with your point, and if you said the American, or maybe even Western, I might agree with you completely. But, uh, there's some pretty amazing cities out there. There's not much I like better in NYC to Tokyo, for example. And hell, with how much better the Tokyo metro and JR lines are than the NYC subway system, you can live cheaper and still get into the heart of the city faster.
- jordache 8y agohaha greatest city in the history of the world? You obviously don't get out much at all.
- wpietri 8y agoThe person you're talking to didn't say they were having trouble understanding "why people might want to live" there. They said they thought it was a bad choice on Amazon's part for cogent reasons, all of which you ignore in this reply.
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- Latteland 8y agoI don't think people get you are being sarcastic.
- CPLX 8y agoIndeed.
- typon 8y agoThis has to be a parody..
- syndacks 8y agoIt's the greatest city, currently, in the USA for sure. In the history of the world, that's impossible to say. Amsterdam is pretty dope for example.
- pducks32 8y agoLol someone’s defensive. I believe this is called being insecure.
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- dmode 8y agoYeah, it is greater than Ancient Rome, with a richer history than Paris, and more people than Tokyo
- CuriouslyC 8y agoI'd go into a long drawn out reply, but I'd rather relax on my deck with a cup of coffee in a bathrobe and enjoy the sights and sounds of nature. Enjoy being crammed into a loud, noxious sea of concrete and steel with 20 million other people.