Re: God how i hate NYC - Rant viewer discretion is advised
NYC is one of the hardest places in the US to live and work if you are not at least upper-middle or lower-upper class. If you're not in those classes and if you work in Manhattan, chances are you don't live there (Matsui is the exception). In Staten Island, you get up at 5:00 in the morning, catch a bus to the ferry, ferry across to Manhattan, and take a subway to work. If you only work a 9 to 5 shift, you reverse the process and get home around 8:00 at night. Now you make and eat dinner and probably have an hour or two to digest and watch TV. Go to bed and start again. Basically, you live 5 days of every week simply to work. That's tough and tiring.
It's no way to live if you ask me. It's a wonder to me how every single person in NYC is not perpetually grouchy and mean living like that.
Given the amount of traffic in Manhattan, you've got to be nuts to expect a bus to run on time in accordance with a schedule. They start out every morning on time and just keep moving along their preordained path in conformity with what the traffic flow permits.
What is amazing is that NYC moves at all rather than being in complete and total gridlock. Yet, it is the financial capital of the world and still has all the incredible things Matsui identifies. I'm glad I'm not a New Yorker but God Bless them all.
It never ceases to startle me that so many people who are essentially short-term visitors to a place focus on all the negatives of that place. When I visit a foreign country or a foreign city, regardless of how smelly, grungy and dank it appears, I always try to discover and experience that country's or city's own unique motion and culture.