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New York * most diverse and cosmopolitan English-speaking and relatively-free city in the world, by far * compact with good public transit, creating an incred
by wly_cdgr 5y ago
New York
* most diverse and cosmopolitan English-speaking and relatively-free city in the world, by far
* compact with good public transit, creating an incredibly high points of interest per commute hour ratio - the best metric for measuring urban qol
* not the BEST tech/entrepreneurial communities, but still has very good ones, and is better rounded than the very top tier tech hubs: high quality art, design, games, music, publishing, fashion, etc scenes
Hon. mentions: Tokyo, LA
- kgin 5y agoAll very true. The one thing that worn on me about NYC: most people leave after 5-7 years. If you stay longer than that, everyone you built relationships with early on will be gone and the ones from the middle will be planning their departure. You can keep meeting new people to fill up the leaky boat, but gradually as you get older, you lose access to the spaces where all these new, exciting (mostly young) people meet each other. I love it for so many reasons, but that one aspect does wear on me.
- throw_this_one 5y agoI don't get what would be so interesting about nyc after age 35 or so. Just people trying to make it, money to be made, tourists and visitors, etc. The young people you can kind of classify and thus they're not that interesting.
- wly_cdgr 5y ago....Kunal? Heh