Chuck Rangel: stand-up comic
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I'm a native New Yorker. I don't live there anymore, but I love it, think it's the greatest city on earth.
Even I could come up with ten reasons in five seconds as to why most of the USA wouldn't want to live there!
Yes, we suave, sophisticated New Yorkers can be a bit out of touch sometimes (look at our voting record
).
Even I could come up with ten reasons in five seconds as to why most of the USA wouldn't want to live there!
Yes, we suave, sophisticated New Yorkers can be a bit out of touch sometimes (look at our voting record
).
Wildalaska
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Agreed with mthalo.....
Living in NYC, especially when you are young, gives you a cultural experience that you cannot get anywhere else, especially in wannabe places like LA and Chicago
Of course there is the traffic, congestion, politics etc that suck
WildurbaneAlaska
Living in NYC, especially when you are young, gives you a cultural experience that you cannot get anywhere else, especially in wannabe places like LA and Chicago
Of course there is the traffic, congestion, politics etc that suck
WildurbaneAlaska
UH1-D Rotorhead
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I love New York..........
....I really do want to go back.....but what do I do with my 1911 collection?
....I really do want to go back.....but what do I do with my 1911 collection?
Mister_Dinky
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I'm a native New Yorker. I don't live there anymore, but I love it, think it's the greatest city on earth.
Sorry sport, it's a crap hole.
Sorry sport, it's a crap hole.
Wildalaska
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Ah sport, you have lived there then to make that judgement?
WildcarnegiehallandtheguggenheimAlaska
Mister Dinky,
You'll have to let me know which of the 50 you're in so I can properly formulate an insult
New York has some of the finest restaurants, shopping, cultural attractions, an efficient public transportation system, and people who are much friendlier and polite than they are given credit for.
How does that song by Frank Sinatra go? "If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere, It's up to you Cedar Rapids"
You'll have to let me know which of the 50 you're in so I can properly formulate an insult
New York has some of the finest restaurants, shopping, cultural attractions, an efficient public transportation system, and people who are much friendlier and polite than they are given credit for.
What made your visit unpleasant?
How does that song by Frank Sinatra go? "If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere, It's up to you Cedar Rapids"
10 MickeyMouse
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Exactly how I feel. I can have a lot of fun over a couple weeks, but it doesn't take long before I start to miss home.
Everyone should go to NY, NY once in their life to catch a Broadway show and enjoy the vast dining experience, among other things. But for me, the pace is too stacatto, people are too uptight and self absorbed, and there is definitely a lack of praire.
I like my Eastern plains with rocky mountain skyline. The gun laws are a bit better here, too
I'm with RH. I love living in the Cedar Rapids/ Iowa City area. There are a few downsides (the Quaker plant, the insane winters, train tracks that run right through the center of town...), but I'll tell you the difference:
You go to a convenience store in New York (and mind you, this was a decade ago) and you have to pre-pay. You don't look the guy behind the counter in the eyes and if you say anything beyond "gimme my change (insert expletive here)" he looks at you from behind his lexan fortress like you're about to rob the place.
In contrast, you go to a convenience store here and you pump your gas, everyone there knows you by name, what brand of cigarettes you smoke, how your favorite sports team did, and they take the time to share a joke with you.
As I said, it was a decade ago. Things may have changed by now.
You go to a convenience store in New York (and mind you, this was a decade ago) and you have to pre-pay. You don't look the guy behind the counter in the eyes and if you say anything beyond "gimme my change (insert expletive here)" he looks at you from behind his lexan fortress like you're about to rob the place.
In contrast, you go to a convenience store here and you pump your gas, everyone there knows you by name, what brand of cigarettes you smoke, how your favorite sports team did, and they take the time to share a joke with you.
As I said, it was a decade ago. Things may have changed by now.
NYC is for tourists
As an overall 'amusement park' and tourist attraction, NYC was interesting and fun (IF you can afford the exorbitant prices). The Metropolitan Museum was great.
I, however, wouldn't live there for anything. I can see the attraction for the youthful mind.
I took the afternoon one day and hiked on Broadway from Battery Park up to 52nd street and there were moments I thought I would be assaulted by the hundreds of sidewalk vendors hawking their crap. I only saw one Cop during that whole excursion. I recommend the subway (once you learn it) or a taxi.
The food and lodging is astronomically expensive.
As an overall 'amusement park' and tourist attraction, NYC was interesting and fun (IF you can afford the exorbitant prices). The Metropolitan Museum was great.
I, however, wouldn't live there for anything. I can see the attraction for the youthful mind.
I took the afternoon one day and hiked on Broadway from Battery Park up to 52nd street and there were moments I thought I would be assaulted by the hundreds of sidewalk vendors hawking their crap. I only saw one Cop during that whole excursion. I recommend the subway (once you learn it) or a taxi.
The food and lodging is astronomically expensive.
You guys need to distinguish between Manhattan, where it is great to be 25 and have a high paying job, and the rest of NY City where most people live in ghettoes of one ethnic group or another and exist like rats in holes.
The efficient transportation system is basically your feet, I walked more when I worked there than I did in the Army!
It costs money to breathe there, everything is outrageously expensive.
Go in the wrong area at the wrong time and you will have problems, you have to know your place there.
New York is a third world country, with a few folks living it up and the rest working like rats in a police state.
I understand how much fun it is when you are young and have no responsibility, but it gets old quickly unless you make a lot of money.
Charles Rangel represents a certain community, not the glitter of Manhattan.
The efficient transportation system is basically your feet, I walked more when I worked there than I did in the Army!
It costs money to breathe there, everything is outrageously expensive.
Go in the wrong area at the wrong time and you will have problems, you have to know your place there.
New York is a third world country, with a few folks living it up and the rest working like rats in a police state.
I understand how much fun it is when you are young and have no responsibility, but it gets old quickly unless you make a lot of money.
Charles Rangel represents a certain community, not the glitter of Manhattan.
Enh. The one time I was in New York, it took pulling a knife to convince a feller that I really didn't want to give him my dead brother's possessions, and that I really didn't want him crowding right up into me demanding I give him stuff.
I really don't have any desire to go back to that cesspit.
The problem of folks thinking they have a right to your stuff isn't confined the street punks.
I really don't have any desire to go back to that cesspit.
The problem of folks thinking they have a right to your stuff isn't confined the street punks.
FirstFreedom
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more of a sit-down comic
look at the belly & chin.
look at the belly & chin.
UH1-D Rotorhead
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If you never lived in New York City.....
....then you never have really lived....yes....it's expensive, crowded, lacks a prarie and mountains, has gun control like nowhere else, but being raised in such a great city as New York gives one an extremely flexible view on the world in general...and if you want praries, mountains, beaches, dairy farms, etc....a short drive up the New York Thruway or east on the LIE will get you to places that are so un-like NYC...New York State, as a whole, has it all....enuff said.
....then you never have really lived....yes....it's expensive, crowded, lacks a prarie and mountains, has gun control like nowhere else, but being raised in such a great city as New York gives one an extremely flexible view on the world in general...and if you want praries, mountains, beaches, dairy farms, etc....a short drive up the New York Thruway or east on the LIE will get you to places that are so un-like NYC...New York State, as a whole, has it all....enuff said.
You guys are so off the mark it's amazing!!!
I can only assume you all spent the entire time either in Manhattan, the Bronx or Brooklyn.
Somehow, I doubt you got out of Manhattan.
Unless maybe you found cheaper lodging in Queen's.
NY is NOT just Manhattan.
It's a VERY tough town to say the least.
And if you come from a slow paced rural area, not only will it overwhelm you, but you'll no doubt LOOK like you're uncomfortable, making yourself an obvious target for trouble makers.
There are crowds, dirt, rudeness, etc, etc, etc.
But it has some of the most beautiful coastline you'll ever see.
The upstate scenery is outstanding.
Some of the finest Striped Bass fishing can be had in Long Island Sound.
Have any of you even been to Long Island?
The nightlife, restaurants and cultural offerings are next to none anywhere in the world.
Unfortunately, most people only go for a frew days and concentrate all of their time in Manhattan for shows and whatnot.
And if you don't have someone to help you out, you'll never experience the "other" NY.
I lived there for 48yrs.
At one time or another, I frequented every little nook and cranny available.
From posh Manhattan clubs/restaurants and drug infested areas of the South Bronx to cabins in the Adirondack/Catskill Mtns with breathtaking views and fantastic fishing.
If you think NY is a cess pool, you don't know NY.