Chuck Rangel: stand-up comic

[SIGSHR]

I wouldn't live in New York for one reason-its' gun laws. And I think Rangel's
foot in the mouth ala John Kerry is very typical of New Yorkers, they think they're so clever and sophisticated, but look at how badly that city has been
governed for the last 50 or so years-remember the NYC fiscal crisis of 1975-76. It's typical of New York politicians to blame their problems-crime, e.g. on
the fact that other states recognoze the RKBA when they do not.
I am a native of New York State, I lived in NYC 1959-1961, but more I think of New York of what they say about Boston:
"They should have kept the tea and thrown the city in the harbor."

 

[Jart]

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

Sometimes the similarities just jump out at one:

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

- Mark Twain

That'll be my gratuitous Twain quote of the day.

 

[GoSlash27]

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.

Well yeah....except I'm not from a slow-paced rural area, I'm from inner-city Pittsburgh.

 

[mthalo]

Finally, a non It's the end of the world, the Dems have the house debate!

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.

HE might have been from the tax department, was it near city hall? Maybe it was Charles Rangel.

rest of NY City where most people live in ghettoes of one ethnic group or another and exist like rats in holes.

I don't think that's a fair description. Yes, there are large concentrations of certain ethnic groups in certain neighborhoods, but they're not ghettos in the way we traditionally think of them.

I moved from New York to Minneapolis, and found it less safe overall.
The bums in Minneapolis don't ask for change, usually it's two or three dollars.
People were not very friendly, and there are certain neigborhoods that I would want to be in in the daytime. Maybe it was the familiarity, but I felt safer in New York.

I have been to Cedar Rapids a couple of times. While it is a charming town, I could never live there, just not enough to do there.

I certainly will not argue that you must have a well paying job, or be willing to share a small apartment with several people, if you want to live in Manhattan.

 

[K80Geoff]

You guys are absolutely correct! New York is a utopia and you should all move there.You will absolutely love it, all the culture, the restaurants, museums, broadway and all the friendly people.

Y'all need to take my place.

Really, go ahead and move there, you will love it!



PS: I'll keep your guns for a small monthly charge, even make sure they get exercise.

 

[buzz_knox]

I made my first visit to New York (Manhatten) this summer. I had a fantastic time except for encounter in which I got paid way too much for crappy food. The people were generally far nicer than I had been led to expect. I fully intend to go back.

That being said, getting back to TN and being able to strap on a Glock, look at my AR with fresh non-neutered mags, not have to listen to horns and morons at 2 a.m., able to drive in some semblance of safety and not have to dodge pigeons at every turn reminded me how better off I am than if I were in New York.

 

[Guy B. Meredith]

Seems like the good Mr. Rangel needs to get out more. Not that any of the other states would want his company.

Just to add one more opinion, I have very much enjoyed some upstate areas, but have not and WILL NOT visit NYC.

On the other hand, this is not a snub to NYC: I also avoid SF across the bay here unless business forces me to be there and the same for Los Angeles. I just generally have no use for large cities.

 

[mthalo]

Seems like the good Mr. Rangel needs to get out more.

Bad idea, he and Bloomberg (who I not so affectionately referred to as Mayor
S'Head when i lived there) would love to get out as see what gun-control laws they can get passed in your neck of the woods.

If you were to talk with Rangel's constituents, I think you would find that many of them have no concept of the legality of civilian firearms ownership.

I was once talking with a friend there, and mentioned that I wanted to buy a handgun. I could not convince her that I wanted simply because I wanted it, she assumed it was because I wanted to shoot somebody, and I could not convince her otherwise.

Yet, I also know that there are lots of illegal gun owners in NYC who are otherwise law abiding.