Anybody who cloaks themselves in the garb of "New Yorker" as their entire personality is a boring ass person. NYC is the best place to live in the United States since it's the only city where you can actually walk everywhere and that's why I love it but compared to any other city of similar or larger size it's embarrassing. We don't even have fucking glass on our metro platforms. Half of the island of Manhattan is a Disneyworld. A decent chunk of the iconic parts of NYC life have closed and are never coming back because landlords refuse to rent to businesses that aren't Starbucks or Planet Fitness. The roads are decaying, the parks are grassless wastelands, but fuck I don't know where else I could get a Tibetan momo, bomb ass al pastor tacos, xiao long bao, and fluffy bagels all on the same block.
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From a non American, this seems to be how all Americans talk about their local places lol
Yeah, Americans are bizarrely insulated. They really do think that the northeast quadrant of their town has a completely different culture from the northwest quadrant of their town, but of course those cultures are slightly more similar than the culture of those goddamn southwest quadrant motherfuckers.
The people in the next city over may as well be from Jupiter.
My favourite capitalism Murican brained thing is people saying how cool their area is for having x fast food chain
I've heard Americans unironically claim that American states are more different from one another than European countries.
Yeah buddy, some places call soda "pop" and that's more difference than between Poland and Portugal.
Some states are definitely more different than, like, Germany and Austria
The people in the next city over may as well be from Jupiter.
If you live in Florida this is pretty likely
I've been to several cities of global importance and size. Moreover, I've spoke to people from dozens of countries asking them to compare NYC to the principle city of their country.
Among them all and from my observation there is agreement: NYC is both the dirtiest major city globally and has the most outdated mass transit system.
It continues to blow my mind that New York managed to build one of the first functional metro systems in the world, and then decided that they shouldn't ever bother to maintain them beyond the absolute bare minimum, for like 80 years. Surely it can't all be the fault of city planning and Robert Moses, right?
As someone who lives in New York, let me just say Greatest city in the world only in NYC pizza pie go Mets
Classiest best greatest nicest cleanest city baybee.
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bodegas are hardly special. like, pretty much every 3rd or 4th street in London, even in the suburbs, has those too. in fact we have loads of specialist ones for different diasporas foods. as do like most British towns and cities, at least regular ones though maybe not afro or South Asian , and I would imagine is true for a lot of other places
Well according to CumTown you can get drugs in NY bodegas, here on terf island I have to go meet a guy in an alley behind the shop
You can also get cheaper cigarettes, smuggled from out of state, which is nice
Drug dealers often hang out at convenience stores in not-New York too
What.... What do they think a corner store is?
It’s a place where you can buy gatorade, toilet paper, AND eggs.”
So... any gas station in the USA?
If I have to read one more article about how some people in New York are really cool for doing ordinary culture stuff (like starting a magazine or writing a book) while in New York, I'm going to scream
I've had New Yorkers tell me they know my own culture better than I do because they lived in the Bronx. This one woman insisted I walk on the outside of a sidewalk because Latin men would hit on her. I had no idea what she was talking about because only old men do that where I live. But she insisted it was something we all did.
“For you non-new yorkers, let me explain: a bodega is not a corner store. It’s a place where you can buy gatorade, toilet paper, AND eggs.”
Dollar General has all of those things. I don't see what's so magical about them.
last time I was in NYC I met a guy who was slackjawed that other cities in America also have Chinatowns
Boy is he going to be surprised when he learns about China.
Everything in the store being dusty and expired is just culture, sweaty
The only cool bodegas are the ones in Cuba that give people free rations of food
Wait thats a thing? Gonna save this chestnut for the next time I'm in a conversation about bodegas
Yeah bodega just means warehouse or grocery store in Spanish
Couldn’t imagine living anywhere other than New York!
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: New Yorkers that need to tell strangers about their high standards and about how exceptional and unique and grounded and worldly and tough and cosmopolitan and sophisticated and cultured they are for being from New York are insufferably boorish.
If I watch a stand-up comedian and they mention New York within the first few minutes of their performance, I'm out. I don't want to hear it again.
What really bugs me is that they brag about their open-mindedness, but call anyone they deem a "dirty redneck" who moves in a gentrifier and thus not welcome in the city as if a good chunk of people living in Brooklyn at any given moment aren't "small town rednecks" themselves.
Not that they themselves are the problem, it's landlords, real estate "investors", and the "muh property values" types.
I've met way too many like this when I lived in Upstate New York. You'd get the transplants who lived in the city and then came back acting like they were above everybody else. The people actually born and raised in New York City almost never brought it up.
One of the most obnoxious people I ever dated in my college years spent one semester in the UK and came back with Standard Issue Posh British Accent Used By Generically Sexy Love Interest Scientist In Almost Every SyFy Channel Original Movie.
She'd drop it when distracted or off her guard but she insisted it was "natural" to her. :sus-deep:
Confession time? Confession time:
I used to be someone like her. I'm from a small town in the middle of nowhere in the Midwest but I claimed to be from Chicago (closest major city people give a damn about) only went there once every few years. Basically the stolen valor is about trying to feel like you're from an important place and to make one seem less "normal".
Eventually I grew up when I realized no one really cared either way. Where I grew up does not make me interesting, and there's a ton of racist people in the "cool" places in California and New York. Conversely, one really cool guy I met in college came from deep red Texas. Accent and everything. He understood where I was coming from but he helped a lot in getting me to just own it. Yeah, I say "ope" and call soda "pop", that doesn't make me a "dirty racist normie"
Yeah, my childhood was kinda boring. But that can't be helped.
This is kind of a tangent but everyone says "ope" I don't know why the Midwest acts like they're the only ones. Grew up in florida and heard it, heard it when I lived in Pittsburgh, heard it when I lived in Boston, haven't heard it with any greater frequency now that I'm in the Midwest myself
It's because the Midwestern oafs spread out
Huge wagon trains of Germanic folks heading in every direction with their smoked sausages and folksy wisdom
I'm starting to feel like thats just what happens when people move somewhere. Like something about being a transplant to a city suddenly makes you way more likely to talk about how thats the best city ever and how nowhere else is like it. Kinda like when people convert to a new religion and become really devout to it, compared to people who were born and raised in that religion.