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Many of those restaurants serve exceedingly unhealthy food. Not quite sure what to say about the assertion that a little free booze == good life. But I'm bias

Many of those restaurants serve exceedingly unhealthy food. Not quite sure what to say about the assertion that a little free booze == good life. But I'm biased, because New York City is not for me ... there are so many ads you feel like there was some NASCAR pileup they never got to. They even put ads on the stairs in the subway stations (!)

dllthomas 14y ago
If you were going to be spending money on booze to make your life, in your estimation, better then free booze == cheaper route to good life than paying for that same booze. If you aren't interested in drinking booze, then that's obviously of no benefit to you.
- oinksoft 14y ago
  It is true that I am not a liquor drinker, but if you replace this with free beer or wine, it still is just a perk, and not something that I'd cite as improving my quality of living.
  - dllthomas 14y ago
    I would say that a "perk" - if it's one I actually appreciate - does improve my quality of living (albeit not dramatically, or it's more than a "perk"). Having said that, if you are spending money on beer or wine (or anything else, really), and it is not improving your quality of living, maybe you should stop spending money on beer and wine and instead spend it on something that will improve your quality of living. If you, for some reason, can't (then maybe you have a problem that needs to be addressed, but otherwise...) then a "perk" of getting these things for free does mean you have more money available for things that will increase your quality of living (perhaps by freeing up other resources like time that can be more directly invested in quality of living, however you experience that).
rayiner 14y ago
> Many of those restaurants serve exceedingly unhealthy food. I haven't found this to be the case at all. Most of the cheap good food in the city is ethnic food. I don't think there is anything particularly unhealthy about the grilled chicken skewers I get at the local halal cart.
- oinksoft 14y ago
  I must've been unlucky in my visits then. I definitely found some tasty Afghan places and such around town, but the low prices seemed to be linked to poor ingredients -- cheap canned vegetables, fatty meat and such, overly seasoned to mask this. And apart from those, when it comes to inexpensive eats it seemed to be pizza/calzone/spanakopita /salad places everywhere. That being said, for a little more, you can find some really good eats, but that goes for most cities. http://mandoobarnyc.com/ http://mandoobarnyc.com/ is terrific. It's gotten worse over the years but their kimchi mandoo is still great.

dllthomas 14y ago

If you were going to be spending money on booze to make your life, in your estimation, better then free booze == cheaper route to good life than paying for that same booze. If you aren't interested in drinking booze, then that's obviously of no benefit to you.

oinksoft 14y ago
It is true that I am not a liquor drinker, but if you replace this with free beer or wine, it still is just a perk, and not something that I'd cite as improving my quality of living.
- dllthomas 14y ago
  I would say that a "perk" - if it's one I actually appreciate - does improve my quality of living (albeit not dramatically, or it's more than a "perk"). Having said that, if you are spending money on beer or wine (or anything else, really), and it is not improving your quality of living, maybe you should stop spending money on beer and wine and instead spend it on something that will improve your quality of living. If you, for some reason, can't (then maybe you have a problem that needs to be addressed, but otherwise...) then a "perk" of getting these things for free does mean you have more money available for things that will increase your quality of living (perhaps by freeing up other resources like time that can be more directly invested in quality of living, however you experience that).

rayiner 14y ago

> Many of those restaurants serve exceedingly unhealthy food. I haven't found this to be the case at all. Most of the cheap good food in the city is ethnic food. I don't think there is anything particularly unhealthy about the grilled chicken skewers I get at the local halal cart.

oinksoft 14y ago
I must've been unlucky in my visits then. I definitely found some tasty Afghan places and such around town, but the low prices seemed to be linked to poor ingredients -- cheap canned vegetables, fatty meat and such, overly seasoned to mask this. And apart from those, when it comes to inexpensive eats it seemed to be pizza/calzone/spanakopita /salad places everywhere. That being said, for a little more, you can find some really good eats, but that goes for most cities. http://mandoobarnyc.com/ http://mandoobarnyc.com/ is terrific. It's gotten worse over the years but their kimchi mandoo is still great.