New York Culture

[jack]

...is interesting. The hotel (!) I stayed at was very interesting. (hotel 31) I can appreciate how levels have really changed there, just the very simple aspect of procuring an apartment at a ridiculously inflated price is a "relief" for many of these folks.

It seems "getting a job" is effortless. Even the street people make a decent living, and they have no rent. If you figured it right (and WEREN'T mentally ill, and actually had no family) you could live very comfortably (and quite cheaply) using facilities that had the services you required for daily societal functioning, without an apartment. I don't know what level of homelessness that actually is?

But it's interesting, watching that kind of morphed activity. Looks like the homeless have been actually reduced to the ones that are really mentally ill. Everyone else seems pretty comfortable in their shoes, and it's a 24 hour city. I understand my "perspective" may be skewed to those that actually live in and around that area, still it was interesting. Everything's getting really small, except for the food portions at restaurants.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Sounds about accurate.

Bloomberg is going to have to pull a Giuliani soon on the homeless, there are just too many of them everywhere. It's as bad as I've ever seen it in the past 15 years.

Either come up with more programs or quietly bus them out of town, like Rudy did.

 

[Tyrant]

I encountered two of them holding signs saying "I'm homeless" and walking up to cars on the highway during traffic on my way to work.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I see them on corners in Midtown and in business districts where I never used to see them before.

I won't even go into the 5 or so regulars I encounter just leaving my apartment building. Several years and they are still out there, living hand to mouth, doing odd jobs for supers and store owners...

 

[Elrod]

I hit six of them with my car on the way to work where I work. They want my MONEY!

 

[Cacophony]

Chaaaaaaange???

South Park, ftw!

 

[jack]

I just remember a more classic "homelessness", if you will allow me that turn of phrase.

 

[Laker_Girl]

Not a fan of NYC. My summation was, it's just like Tiajauna only it doesn't smell as bad.

I'm from CA, everything is new and shiny and though the history is hella interesting, I just don't get why New Yorkers have such a passion for the place.

 

[jack]

Yeah I don't get that shit either. It's filthy, crowded and a whole lot of people get marginalized.

The restaurants and theatres and shops are excellent. They've got the city "cleaned up" in the sense that you no longer take your life in your hands getting from one place to the other, unless you're a complete idiot.

It's all lit up like a big piece of candy, but it's filthy.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

That's because real people live in it, take mass transit together, and have little time for one-dimensional bullshit.

It doesn't care as much how it looks because it's too busy being THE MOST IMPORTANT FREAKIN CITY IN THE UNIVERSE.

LA is for being seen in your convertible, waving to your friends in their convertibles so that you can both feel good about being in your convertibles.

New York is for people who have something to do with their lives.

BAM!

 

[SaintLucifer]

New York has a culture? The place is a shithole, with the largest crater one has ever seen in the centre, where once stood America's beacon of economic might, the World Trade Center. Bwaaaaaaahhhhaaaaaaaaa!! New York is the very proof the entire USA has been PWNed by dumbass Muslim fucks.

 

[SaintLucifer]

That's because real people live in it, take mass transit together, and have little time for one-dimensional bullshit.

It doesn't care as much how it looks because it's too busy being THE MOST IMPORTANT FREAKIN CITY IN THE UNIVERSE.

LA is for being seen in your convertible, waving to your friends in their convertibles so that you can both feel good about being in your convertibles.

New York is for people who have something to do with their lives.

BAM!

London is the most-important city in the universe you dumb shit, as it has been since time immemorial. It was the center of the greatest Empire the world has ever seen, and it is today the financial and economic capital of the planet. Live with it you piece of shit.