> I’ve never heard New Yorkers call New York the greatest city on earth in earnest. My Uber driver said that to me within the first ride of my landing, and I h

> I’ve never heard New Yorkers call New York the greatest city on earth in earnest. My Uber driver said that to me within the first ride of my landing, and I heard it again and again, from millenials, Gen X, Boomers, basically every type of person I met and from every walk of life, during the many years I lived there. You guys play this game where you don't say what you mean, and you don't mean what you say, in any context where it's marginally convenient/inconvenient to do so. It's eat or be eaten in NYC. I would hope longtime residents like yourself are just BS'ing the HN community, and not actually delusional about the waters you swim in.