> It’s one of the oldest cities with modern amenities. That feels kinda arbitrary, what's considered a modern amenity, good Internet access? Public transport?

> It’s one of the oldest cities with modern amenities. That feels kinda arbitrary, what's considered a modern amenity, good Internet access? Public transport? Having no clue what's below a city is really not that unique to NYC. If Rome can dig past it, why can't NYC? > This isn’t meant to be a dick measuring contest, just that it’s a city that wasn’t really planned and so progress is painfully slow. Which is, again, not unique to NYC. Urban planing as the proper academic field, we know it today, only emerged in the early 1900s. That's not to deny that every place has its own unique challenges and issues, but that doesn't mean they are inherently unsolvable.