The City, love it or hate it. (caution 7 pics)

The City, Love it or Hate it?

  • Love it and go when ever I can.

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  • Hate it and wouldn't miss it if it sank into the Atlantic, except for the ECCKS.

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T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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My 24 year old cousin is goin' home to Hungary after 40 days in the US, (he came out to study english) of all the places we went he loved the City enough to wanna go back a second time before goin' home and now a third time as we take him to JFK to go home Sunday.

Now I personally like the City, the food, the shows, the culture all bring me back.

Do ya like the City and if ya do where's your favorite part?

BTW here are a few shots from the other night, enjoy.

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NYC....it is one of my first memories....I have spent a LOT of time there.

I love the City itself, but it is not what it once was, imo, and I leave it to itself, and citizens....I will visit, I will enjoy...but it will never be MY city again..it has lost the patina of seediness, and everthing is now bright and shiny...the politicians and partisans have pulled out the teeth, and fashionable urbanites cannot appreciate what was lost....large chunks of Little Italy, the remaking of Times Square and the upscaling of Harlem, a freak, something that was never supposed to be, and isn't really....a shame.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
I grew up in the south, and am most at home living outside of mid-sized cities (suburbs of Augusta, St. Louis, Lincoln). Right now I'm living about 20 miles outside of downtown Chicago, can't stand the city itself, and still consider myself in a little too urban an environment.

New York, in my mind, is what the true definition of hell must be.
 
I love NYC. Like with Steven, some of my earliest memories are of NYC and it will always have a special place in my heart. I would actually like to visit again, badly. Especially to pay my respects at ground zero.

But I could not live there, or in any city for that matter. I'm a country boy and I just don't belong in an urban setting, it's just not for me. I feel very uncomfortable in big cities.

and if ya do where's your favorite part?
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Well, when I was living in north Jersey and my parents used to take me to NYC for one reason or another, I always begged them to first take me to Chinatown for martial arts equipment and other cool stuff. So I guess Chinatown is my favorite part of town.
 
Not a bad place to visit once in awhile,but sure as hell wouldn't want to live there.
 
Its one of the best places I've ever visited and one of the last places I'd ever want to live.



quit reading my mind JTR357!!!
 
I loathe cities, the bigger they are, the less I like them. I don't have a problem with other people liking them, if that's your thing good luck to you but I have no desire to visit them at all.
 
I live in the country, couldn't live in the City, (I grew up 20 minutes from the City), but I love to visit.

Last year we were out at the South Street Seaport and stumbled on a street fair, we ate and drank our way through half a dozen cultures, were entertained by magicians, singers and jugglers all day and we topped this off with a cruise around Manhattan on the Circle Line, it was a great day.
 
We love it and visit a couple times a year for the museums and art gallerys. Since I live on the outskirts of Washington D.C. I'm used to navigating our way around big citys, don't mind a bit. New york city is a facinating place. So much to see and do.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
Never seen it. Don't care to. Glad it's there, though.

I grew up in a midwestern suburb. I always hated going downtown. Didn't like the traffic, noise, smell, crowd or lack of vegetation. Did enjoy the zoo, museums, parks and stately government buildings. So, I wouldn't say the city was "a nice place to visit"- I would say certain things in the city were nice to visit. I can't imagine living there.

But, I am glad that there are large cities, and people who enjoy living in them. It opens up more countryside for me. :D
 
My favorite places to visit are little Italy for real italian food especially during the Sanjenaro Festival.In my youger years(late teens-early 20's),I would frequent the village a lot(almost every weekend) mostly for the freak watching:D & I used to go to this bar called the Slaugtered Lamb.It had a pool table area in the basement & was set up like a dungeon.Also used to go to Central Park very often.

Since my job takes me there at a weekly basis(at the least),all the hype that used to be is gone.Driving there is hell.If anyone decides to visit,I'd recommend always taking a train.

I don't think the poll was quite fair in it's choices.I voted "hate it",but wouldn't want to see it go anywhere.If I took this poll 20yrs ago,I would've voted "love it".
 
My daughter and I went into NYC yesterday. Didn't spend much time on the streets, we went to the Central Park Zoo. Too crowded. It took a long time on line to get overpriced and poor food at their cafeteria and we didn't even go into the zoo because the line was a block long.

Instead we walked around the park itself for hours. Ended up eating much better at the cafeteria by the rowboat lake. We had gone all around that part of the park years ago when I actually lived in NYC so it was a kind of memory lane day, even though there were some changes.

One thing I always liked about living there is that there's so much to do without having to plan for it, places just waiting for you to show up. South Street Seaport is a sort of a tourist trap but it has a few good shops and restaurants and a great view, too. On July Fourth I used to go there for just about the best street fair in the City.

It's easy to put down places you personally aren't inclined to understand. I like having access to open spaces but I can't imagine not having lots of near neighbors. We all tend to appreciate what we're used to, we know how to work around the problems and benefit from the rest of it.
 
I don't like cities. Its okay to visit one once in a while, do some shopping, then come home and apreciate what we have here.

I also see cities as a liability; they drive up taxes, consume resources and breeds liberalism.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
It's easy to put down places you personally aren't inclined to understand. I like having access to open spaces but I can't imagine not having lots of near neighbors. We all tend to appreciate what we're used to, we know how to work around the problems and benefit from the rest of it.
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I'm not sure it's necessarily putting it down because I don't understand it, I lived in Sydney for several years and I understand the place, I just don't like it. Call it personal preference. I put cities down only in the context that I hate many of the things that go with cities. I hate crowds and noise and pollution and all the things that go with living in a place where lots of people are constantly crowded in on top of one another.

I'm more than happy for people who like them to live there, means more room for me out in the country. I have friends who live in the city, I visit them occasionally, I enjoy visiting them but I don't enjoy driving there and I feel a great sense of relief when I'm driving back out.

I prefer to live where I can't see my neighbours. When I want to be sociable I'll go have a beer at the local village pub.

It's all to do with personal preference.
 
Arthur Washburn said:
I detest cities and avoid them whenever possible.
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Same for me.

I do live in a small city now, but before I retired from the FD, I worked and lived in a small rural community, and absolutely loved it.

That being said, I grew up in the Seattle suburbs, and enjoyed going into the city itself once in a while. Now, Seattle has gotten crazy, and I don't go very often, and when I do, it is only on a weekend, and I'm in full combat driving mode when I get 30 miles west of the city.

For those of you living in and around large cities, I tip my hat to you. The lifestyle is much different than what I experience, and I cannot even imagine living that lifestyle.

Oh, I've never been to NYC,and probably never will.
 
If I had never been there, I would definitely want to go. I lived on Governor's Island, a ferry ride away from South Street, for over 10 years. It was like living in a safe small town, with the ability to go to the greatest big city in the world at the drop of a hat. But I have seen it enough times that I don't ever go just for fun any more. I live in a very small town now and only go to NYC when my job requires it, or to take my kids to see the museums.
 
Never been to New York City, but have been to other cities. They're really all the same.
Congested, noisy, smelly, crowded, and lit up at night like prisons (appropriately enough).

Probably a nice place to live if you enjoy waiting in lines for every little thing...
 
New York and Toronto are two places I wouldn't miss if aliens zapped them.:thumbdn:
Both places are so arrogant as to think they're central to the whole damn nation; ick.
Too bad they cannot be shipped off to Antarctica, where they WOULD be the most important cities on the continent.:cool:
 
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