NYC Living
Monday, July 25, 2016
- Life in Manhattan is not like the TV show 'Sex and the City'.
- Life in New York City is like the TV show 'How I Met Your Mother', whether you live in Manhattan, Brooklyn or Queens. (
thanks ber andlyft
- It is perfectly normal for 22 years old to pay the equivalent of $1,500 to live in a shoebox apartment with 3 other people in an unfashionable part of Manhattan with no living room but Manhattan
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- It is perfectly normal for a family of 5 lives in a one bedroom apartment and receiving welfare with no desire to move.
- People rent their apartment based on the nearby train station, if there's an express train in the station, the rent will expect to be at least a couple hundred dollars more than those
area closer to Manhattan but located near to a local stop.
- Manhattan is no longer considered a prestigious neighborhood, check DUMBO, Clinton Hill, Greenpoint, Williamsburgh, Long Island City.
- People respond to, “You alright?”, with sincere answers.
- There's more educated, single women in New York City than the population of men in general.
- Catcalling is like seeing a homeless on the street or on the train, they are everywhere.
- Nobody ends a text message with ‘x’. ‘Bar snacks’ are a vast plate of chicken wings or mozzarella sticks, as opposed to a tiny bag of peanuts.
- You are never further than 3 feet away from a fashion model or any sort of celebs.
- People openly give you the look if you are from Jersey, Staten Island and the Bronx.
- People unabashedly stare on the subway. ‘Taking the bus’ is not a thing.
- People do drugs, but it is hush-hush and frowned upon to ever mention it.
- Williamsburgh and Bushwick can separate themselves from NYC completely, it's like Brooklyner
hipster can live in their own fairy land.
- You can’t buy wine or liquor in grocery stores or
news agents – all must be purchased at ‘wine and liquor’ stores.
- Everybody is busy doing things that seem way more exciting than what you are doing.
- Traveling somewhere that takes over 20 minutes to get to feel like a long journey that deserves acknowledgement.
- Which
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- You go to Central Park a lot less often than you think you will.
- People don’t really do picnics.
- Rather than asking, “Where did you get your shoes?” girls will often say, “Who makes your shoes?” (the assumption being that it’s a famous designer).
- A lot of men here do yoga and a lot of vegans too.
- New Yorkers hate Times Squares or anything ended with squares like Herald Squares.
- Seamless will change your life.
- If you don’t Soul Cycle or have a gym membership, you might as well move to Utah – you are not welcome here.
- It is assumed that if you are single, you are casually dating a handful of people.
- During the summer, everyone leaves the city on the weekends to go to
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- Everyone seems to be a lot richer than you are.
- Drunk food here is a pizza slice and halal food. Pizza comes with a million garnishes you would never have thought of, including garlic salt. YOU CAN GET A SLICE OF PIZZA FOR $1!
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