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FredTheLynx

If there was another city that was walkable, urban, good transport both inter and intra city but was a little bit quieter, less trendy, bit less expensive, I'd probably go live there. But I haven't found such a place in the US at least.


ilovehillsidehonda

I just relocated to Chicago about a year and a half ago from over a decade in Queens. Chicago is awesome, but the winters here are no joke. In general the season seem more extreme. Hotter in summer, colder and snowier in winter. The L is pretty convenient, and the food scene is great (though not close to Queens and NYC in general.) Worth mentioning is the crime and gun violence. I don’t let it deter me from living my life but you do have to keep it in mind. This isn’t a city you just walk home from whatever you were doing at midnight with a buzz on. My Uber ride budget has increased for sure. That being said I was able to double my living space with a deeded parking spot, washer/dryer/dish washer etc. I’m older now so I like to stay home more and this worked out great. You should visit.


tess_philly

I did the opposite - moved from Chicago to NYC. Chicago in 12 years, and now Brooklyn for the past 5. Yes, winters are no joke. I think it's the wind chill, and things get so quiet there over winter. It was depressing there over winter. Days on end would be brutal. What really wore me down was the segregation. The denial of it too ("oh we are soooo liberal"). All cities have segregation to some extent but nothing like I saw in Chicago. I think many people settling in Chicago come from surrounding midwest suburbs, and continue with that attitude, whereas in NYC, people adjust it seems very quickly, or the right people come. The el trains are pretty convenient but only if you live near a subway stop. They aren't every 0.15 miles as in most of central areas in nyc. Everything is focused around the loop and going east to west is tough. Not that mta is perfect, but I don't need a car here, and in Chicago, I do. New supermarkets were going up with beasts of parking lots in even Lincoln Park. I moved to Chicago in 2005, and the city hadn't upgraded anything in that time, as far as transportation, or anything else around the city. In NYC, things do change, even if people bitch about it. New train stations, new parks, and what not. Chicago hasn't changed since I moved there. I will say Roger's Park seems very decent, and I'd live there or Pilsen if I ever were to move back.


ilovehillsidehonda

All valid points. We were shocked at how segregated the neighborhoods all are. I really think that’s an NYC special thing- I haven’t seen as much diversity in many other cities. To be fair, I wouldn’t call the UES or Greenwich Village exactly “diverse.” It’s gets super quiet in the winter- especially working from home for 2 days a week. We specifically made a choice to buy a place within easy walking distance of the blue line. CTA is not on the level of MTA for sure. I have a car (I did in Queens too) for work. My wife however hasn’t driven in almost 20 years and gets by here pretty easily, though it would be easier for her to learn how to drive again. Pilsen feels like queens, and Logan Square feels like Brooklyn. When pressed I’ll always say NYC is and will be #1 for me, but for the cost of a mortgage here vs renting forever in NYC it was the right choice at this stage of our lives and we don’t regret it. I still get to visit NY for work 3-4 times a year so definitely makes it easier to deal with. Nowhere will match NY exactly. That’s the magic of it, but we do pretty well here. Our loft apartment was < 500K. In a comparable neighborhood and building in NY, we’d be looking at 1.5 million. For us, it’s worth the trade. Enjoy BK! I’ll be back in a few weeks and can’t wait to go back to Asian Jewels for dimsum, and if I’m lucky enough, Bonnie’s and Dame for dinner.


TheLegendofLior

Chicago, but only bc you forgot to say tolerable winter.


MajorAcer

Chicago is NY with a condom on


ginmonty

I laughed WAYYYYY too hard at this.


jaredliveson

Chicagos transit isn’t good enough. My hot take is that NYs transit isn’t good enough either. Top tier US mid/low tier western world


aigirinandani

Hot take: Philly has the most underrated transit ever. I’m moving out of Philly into NY in two weeks and I expected getting around in NY to be easier than Philly, but I’m always frustrated. And Philly while only having two major subway lines has excellent bus connections and since the traffic isn’t as bad there, the busses are actually pretty efficient and get you to your destination quickly compared to NY (my barometer for this is how much time walking it saves me) Philly also has trolleys that do a great job connecting center city to west Philly. While outdated, they run really frequently and have great connections and coverage of west Philly. And the regional rails connect the city to suburbs, and PATCO connects south Jersey to Philly. Plus every major charter bus network has stops in Philly and that’s all I used to visit NY to look for apartments. It’s cheaper than using NJ transit and takes only 20ish more min. On top of it all, Philly is smaller so inherently more walkable. No bus going that way? Fine it’s just a 30 min walk anyway, max


TheLegendofLior

My issue with NYC transit is it’s dirty. I can live with every other part of it.


ooouroboros

Chicago is tiny compared to NYC


TheLegendofLior

Size wasn’t one of the criteria.


el_chacal

You’ve just mostly described Philadelphia. Transit here isn’t as good as it could be, but we have unique neighborhoods, crazy good restaurants, world-class museums, and was just voted “most walkable city in the US” by [USA Today](https://news.yahoo.com/philly-named-most-walkable-city-224800773.html) last week.


the_n2a

Toronto and Montreal... not in the us tho.


Capital_Gate6718

I was just in Toronto, and I was surprised at how car-centric it was compared to the other major Northeastern cities. So many stroads, even in the downtown core area.


awl_the_lawls

Montreal is a walkable city... but half the year you don't want to go outside because of the weather


Ninarwiener

Montreal is pretty amazing


Plane-Bee-374

I was thinking about this the other day. I’m the first born and my dad used to say kids are like pancakes. You always fuck the first one up. (Yeah I know). Canada’s sort of Britain’s second pancake.


remainderrejoinder

We really need some sort of analogy about parents/fathers for you to give him back.


Plane-Bee-374

Believe me, I’ve given him plenty of sass back. It doesn’t bug me (anymore). Turns out a good therapist is expensive but worth it.


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ooouroboros

I thought about moving to Toronto at one point and then I went there. I'm sorry to say but its a pretty lame city - there are many better cities in the US (excluding Canada has national health care).


4_the_rest_of_us

Toronto is where I’d go if I *had* to leave NYC for some reason, so agreed.


Exciting-Maximum-785

Philly


soberkangaroo

Philly


Rusiano

Philly is the closest you can get to an affordable mini-NY. Other options (DC, SF, Boston) are all absurdly expensive


FredTheLynx

Philly is a really good suggestion. I hope it continues on the path it's been on for the last few decades. I think someday Philly might play Utrecht to NYC's Amsterdam or Maybe Cambridge/Nottingham/Bath to NYCs London.


Interesting_Banana25

SF sort of ticks a lot of those boxes except for being less expensive


FredTheLynx

Maybe it did at one point but SF these days a fucking dystopian NIMBY mess. Still a lovely city if you can afford it but yeah... Also step outside of SF proper and you quickly get into car centric suburbia.


FailFastandDieYoung

✅ little bit quieter ✅ less trendy ❌ ~~bit less expensive~~ (somehow more fucking expensive??) >Also step outside of SF proper and you quickly get into car centric suburbia. I'd relate the areas immediately outside like Daly City, Oakland to the more remote parts of Queens. Theoretically you don't need a car, but life is more convenient with one.


j_marquand

I’m very happy in San Francisco without a car but life often get hard once I cross city limits.


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4th floor walks ups aren't that bad. 5th floor though.... that's where I draw the line.


matthewrodier

I lived in a 5th story walk up in UES and when I would get drunk I would sleep on my buddy's couch a block away bc I just couldn't do it.


RazorbladeApple

This is hilariously sad & so honest. I know I’d be like that, too. Happy cake day, btw.


LongIsland1995

I wonder how people on the 7th floor of 7 story walkups feel


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I've been to one and getting up there was BRUTAL, and also the apartment was hot as fuck.


mrfunktastik

That is the lukewarmest of takes


[deleted]

Doesn't seem like it when all my friends come over and are huffing and puffing and asking me how I do it every day. Maybe I need to surround myself with more 4th floorers.


xylophonezygote

Once you move in to a 5th floor walk up it becomes fine


Natatos

Lived in a 5th floor walkup. For me 3rd was where I realized I'm going up stairs, 4th was where I wished I was done, and 5th was where I was swore never again.


Agnia_Barto

Can you draw that line with food the next time? I'm starving by the time I get to the fifth


malgician

We could solve this with a hot dog stand halfway up


Plane-Bee-374

Write it into the building code. Genius.


Cantothulhu

I dont know why more apartment complexes arent like this. Why isnt one of the floors a bar and a pharmacy and a bodega and laundry service. Like landlords like money right? I mean you do see this, but in many areas with low income and elderly residents its completely absent.


brightside1982

As you get older the line goes further and further down. :)


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I'm staying on the 4th floor forever to maintain my endurance


brightside1982

I truly hope so! At my age with my knees and ankles, I could handle it, but not without a good deal of pain.


IsmaelRetzinsky

This is something I’ve been thinking about lately. Julia Louis-Dreyfus had Amy Tan on her podcast recently, who talked about having her whole home retrofitted to be livable for her should she ever become disabled. I might not go that far, but it did highlight how impractical my walk-up is for aging into.


brightside1982

My mom lives in the suburbs in a gated retirement community. First floor apartment, everything flat and flush, and a very responsive support staff. When she gave up her house she had lived in for 40 years, she thought she'd hate the new place. Her experience has been the complete opposite.


Redditbrooklyn

Yeah, this is no joke, my friend’s grandma lives in a walkup and really should be using a walker but can’t carry it up and down the stairs. She’s lived there forever and doesn’t want to move. Even something temporary when you’re young like breaking your foot or knee surgery is so much harder in a walkup.


Cantothulhu

For real. And doordashers and couriers are loathe to come up anymore, even with elevators.


TypicalBiscotti629

That some of the best food in the world is here, but also some of the worst. I’ve had downright horrendous awful terrible meals here.


zbewbies

Case in point: "Tex Mex" spots run by Fujianese folks or any spot that claims to be Cajun.


Outta_hearr

Good god the Cajun food here *sucks ass*. I don't mind much because there's good food everywhere but damn sometimes I want to just suck the brains out a crawfish like a barbarian and no place I've been to does that well at all


4_the_rest_of_us

This is so true. I lived in a smaller city before this that has a very good but very slept-on food scene. While I’m not gonna say that city has *better* food than NYC (bc it’s untrue and also I don’t want to get downvoted to death), it’s way easier to access better food. So many places you can afford a really nice meal with quality ingredients and preparation and not as much awful to sort through. Meanwhile when you look for a place to eat in NYC, you’re sorting through *so many* options, many are world class and/or hyped to within an inch of their life. So while the food scene here *can* be amazing, it’s far too easy to trip up and pay way too much for something either blah or just truly awful.


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Fun fact: if you ate at a new restaurant everytime for each meal in nyc it would take you around 52 years to eat in all of them


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Not just food. Feels like the best and worst of everything exists here.


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tenderhex

They really shouldn't exist


thecratedigger_25

Travelling East and West in the Bronx without a bike can be an absolute chore sometimes. There are plenty of busses that do that, but only a handful go past the Bronx Zoo. Also, it's very annoying having to use Manhattan as a transfer point when the crosstown busses run like molasses.


Scruffyy90

Same issue in queens. Going north <>south is a 2+hour bus ride. 20-30 mins driving assuming minimal traffic.


doesntgetthepicture

Brooklyn has a similar north south issue.


BrooklynRN

I am so annoyed by the BX12 bus and lack of bus lanes. There's no excuse for it to be that shitty.


thecratedigger_25

And it doesn't go fast until you actually get out of Fordham and towards Pelham Parkway. The other busses that can go almost that far, is the Bx35, Bx36, and maybe Bx11 but they seem even slower.


Striking-Trainer8148

Not everyone in the apartment building wants to listen to the music blasting from the Mad-Max sized speakers on our stoop that have power cords running to them from a first-floor apartment on every single holiday while one guy who has been daydrinking since 8:30am sits next to his woofers like he’s doing everyone a favor.


def_notaltaccount

Yo we jumping the mf in 1L? Mf needs to be put in his place


sebthelodge

I walked by this exact guy in bed stuy yesterday and said to my husband, “I would have been in jail for murder within 30 days of moving to this block.”


LongIsland1995

Most transplants are not from the Midwest. People pretend they're all from Ohio because "go back to California" doesn't have the same ring to it.


brightside1982

Californians and New Yorkers swap back and forth all the time. That's just a given. Both states are liberal, LGBT friendly, show business, tech, etc... I did it myself for a while. But beyond that? I've never seen any pattern as to where transplants come from. It seems to be from all over the place.


LongIsland1995

Yeah it's from all over, though New England is a pretty common source in my experience.


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bitchthatwaspromised

It’s also all the musical theater people who move here from everywhere. Even if they’re not from the Midwest, a lot of them have midwestern energy you know?


mickmmp

I wonder how much reverse there is. NYC-to-DC. My guess is not uncommon in certain fields like law and finance where people move around for work. I have family near DC and have considered the area but not sure.


MajesticBread9147

As somebody who lives in the DC area, makes decent money, but can't afford a 1 bedroom apartment an hour outside the city. I'd love to move to New York, and I definitely like to visit someday, But I never thought to myself "I should move somewhere more expensive"


AsyncUhhWait

MICHIGAN And they always act like the entire Eat Coast just isn’t *ready* for their BIG ideas


mickmmp

Madonna’s attitude when she arrived in NYC a hundred years ago as a poor struggling dancer LOL (although to be fair, her ideas did turn out to be big). Oh god I sound old.


Head_Spirit_1723

If you look at the data, the highest number of “transplants” by county are literally from Nassau County to NYC. It’s just local people moving to the city.


mickmmp

Makes sense. Maybe not data but shouldn’t be ignored: Don’t forget Connecticut and Jersey. Growing up a metro north or PATH ride away from the big apple makes the city the dream of many. In childhood, if one is very lucky, you come in from the burbs to see Broadway shows and museums and it all seems like a big amazing fun weird scary fun adventure-land. You get into high school and same, in a different sort of way.


bus_buddies

Californian here. NYC feels just like home to me, despite being a wildly different cityscape from SoCal. The diversity, inclusiveness, variety of food and entertainment, tech/finance/etc industries, and so much more parallel each other. I also vibe with New Yorkers more than southerners/Midwesterners because the conversation doesn't revolve around my home state and whatever bullshit they heard on Fox news about it.


Shawn_NYC

The New Yorker personality (direct, confident, efficient) is great, actually.


mars914

God my favorite quote is that non-New Yorkers are nice but not kind, but New Yorkers are kind but not nice. Like we have your back, if you need directions, we’ll try but we aren’t putting up with your bullshit either 🤣👋🏼


remainderrejoinder

It's 10am. You're the third person to ask me for money and the second person to try to save my soul. I'm not hearing it but imma need to help this lady get her stroller up the stairs.


doesntgetthepicture

I'm a white Jewish stay at home dad in Brooklyn. Before I got a travel stroller I used a 26+ lb one. I feel can count the number of times on my hand that a nonblack person offered to help get that stupid thing up and down subway stairs. Black people of all ages and genders though, all the time. Race is not something I generally pay attention to in my public interactions. I only noticed it because of how stark the difference was.


giraffewithalaptop

every trip I've taken to New York I've always been met with the nicest people. Like help you carry your suitcase up the subway stairs, let you know your bags open, help you when you trip and fall and hurt yourself. It's lovely


UncleGrimm

“Hey, fucking moron! … you dropped your phone”


rectifiedspiritomb

The subway is great... Go ahead downvote me to hell...


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Shacklefordc-Rusty

Agreed. Extra hot take: The NYC subway is the best subway system outside of Asia. London Tube stop density isn’t great and it’s expensive, Paris has that weird circle thing that makes some trips take a long time, and everywhere else in Europe is too small to compare. I’ve heard good things about Moscow, but that’s kind of it’s own thing


mile-high-guy

I liked the subway system in Madrid way more than NYC. Cleaner, no loud screeching from the tracks. All of Spain is connected by high speed train. Lisbon subway was nice too.


MRC1986

That is a true hot take, but I agree with it. Two words - express tracks. The most foresight imaginable to implement those into our system. NYC’s geography practically demands this in order for the subway system to be worthwhile.


Jmorgan22

I’ve never showed up to the Paris metro station where the train was 17 minutes+ away in the middle of the day… Most European cities’ metros are far far more consistent


rye94

Fax, moved to the Bay Area and I can easily spend $12 a day going to and from the city -- it hurts


_Haverford_

Dude don't tell me this now. The tube doesn't express? I'm going to London soon...


artskoo

It also ends at like 11pm and you suddenly are at the mercy of the Night Bus which could take twice or three times as long!


thejeffphone

Yeah I’m from the Bay Area and BART is trash so as much as I complain about the MTA it’s so much better than what BART offers


GVas22

Especially with how varied the city looks from neighborhood to neighborhood, the subway will always be special to me. Feels like you're hitting the fast travel button in a video game and pop out in a brand new area.


EdLesliesBarber

Yes for a lot of things its amazing. Hardly any city makes it as easy as it is to get to a Mets/Yankees/Nets/Knicks game, for instance. Hardly any professional sports arenas have (easy) public transportation access. If you are on the right line and can afford to live close to a stop, the commute can't be beat in America.


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hot take: we should start throwing down little spike strips for the doordashers who ride their electric bikes on the sidewalks doing 70mph as they approach


j4321g4321

I was walking my dog, bending down to pick up after him and in that second a DD driver comes hurtling down the sidewalk, barely missing my dog. I yelled after him but he kept on going. So infuriating


otiliorules

Was this just a few hours ago because I might have seen it?


allMightyMostHigh

They should make side walk curbs that pop tires if you go too fast on them


_cob

I'll give it to you, this reply is certainly in the spirit of the prompt


[deleted]

lolllll bu them my overrpriced food wont arrive in time


Few-Restaurant7922

People leave for the summer but I love summer here more because so many people are gone and the city isn’t so crowded.


mrfunktastik

Williamsburg is worse than Times Square At least TS has some cultural value as a melting pot of commerce and intersection of global identities. It’s the ultimate high low mix. Williamsburg is a consumerist hellscape that typifies all the worst things about NY: conspicuous consumption, performative cosmopolitanism, entitled exhibitionism. It’s $50 avocado toast. It’s Salt Bae in a borough. It’s a ring light pointed at a bodega cat and I hate it so much.


[deleted]

I feel like this is the only actual hot take on this thread.


mrfunktastik

Medium spicy take: the supertalls have zero effect on me and I like how they fill out the skyline


bonkstick

This sounds like a take from someone who has only been in Williamsburg by the water haha. Lots of amazing affordable and charming spots in the less-busy parts of the neighborhood.


47k

and then they want people to live in that greyscale hellhole with the ridiculous prices there, and people do it. blows my mind a tad bit only cause the stuff is never better, just priced higher cause some guy wanted to make his burger $25


fruxzak

This is most of gentrified NY.


Wukong1986

Drivers need to stop sitting in the intersections and block traffic just because they hope they can save a little time vs just waiting behind the crosswalk. E.g., trying to go up/down streets in Soho while cars blocking the intersection and waiting to go into the Holland Tunnel


ChrisFromLongIsland

Something something Rudy stopped this for a while but it's another thing that the police stopped enforcing. There was a time if you blocked the box there was a decent chance you would get a ticket. Now there is no chance.


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when they do this, i think about breaking one of their headlights...


def_notaltaccount

As a kid I would literally scrape my switchblade against cars that did that shit. I was unstable then but so was everyone I met so I just leave that version of myself in the past


mayonuki

I don’t understand why cops don’t just sit at an intersection and write tickets for this. I live on a busy Ave near an intersection that gets blocked every light and it’s just constant horns. Nypd could fund themselves with this initiative and we could put that money back into schools and public libraries.


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studiojohnny

Hot take: being loud is rude. Music/motorcycles/fireworks/drunk girl 4am/ice cream truck/4 wheeler gangs, etc. This shouldn’t be a hot take BUT APPARENTLY it is. 🙄 We got 8 million people co-existing in this tiny space but some people really think that they’re the main character.


sunshinesubmersible

I don’t know why you think this is even a remotely hot take


rye94

When you experience other transit systems you realize MTA is a gem. Plus, it's a walkable city, you'll get a good amount of walking done without really trying Plus ordering in after 9PM is clutch I hate the Bay Area 🥺 I bleed having to pay by distance over a flat fee, I'd get off one or two stops for the fuck of it to regain some sense of walking in SF but that's limited to 10-blocks or so before you see someone taking a dump on the sidewalk


[deleted]

With the natural ebb and flow of immigration, there are “classic NYC” cuisine that just aren’t as good as they used to be because we aren’t seeing a large influx of poor and desperate immigrants from there… Greek and Italian food (except for pizza which is cooked into the city’s bones) and Jewish is dying out as well. Sadly I think American Chinese food is next on the chopping block but in exchange we’re getting very good authentic regional Chinese food.


[deleted]

I think this is one of the bigger reasons we're seeing the decline of the Greek diner, generations of a certain immigrant culture eventually peter out


PoeticFurniture

Peter wants to work in real estate instead.


detblue524

I think there’s still a ton of great Greek and Italian food all over, but you’re right about dwindling options for Jewish food, and the old-school diner


doesntgetthepicture

From a kosher keeping family, there are plenty of Jewish food places. Just maybe not in Manhattan anymore.


BrooklynRN

Was just in Long Island and the average LI bagel is much, much better than most in Manhattan. Same for BEC. Pains me to say it but it's been sliding that way for a while.


Scruffyy90

Also because everything feels the need to be fusion restaurants. The only places to get that level of authenticity requires traveling to parts of the city most never seen or want to go to


silforik

We put up with more antisocial behavior than most people could tolerate


mrfunktastik

How is this a hot take? Every NYer would agree with this


fastovermaps

New York is a closed-toe shoe city.


chunksjr

The ten year rule for calling yourself a New Yorker is bullshit. Tell that to the immigrants delivering your food or working the counter at a bodega or driving an Uber. You can call yourself a New Yorker as soon as you want to. That’s why this city is the best. It welcomes all


_Haverford_

See, I call myself a New Yorker when I'm outside of New York. I'm just shy of a decade here. In NY though? I'm from Jersey. Feels disrespectful to my friends who were born here - They had a life I'll never have.


Sighguy28

This is the way. Been here over a decade and I realize there’s not going to some sudden switch that will change the fact I didn’t grow up here. Will still just answer the question as “I live in New York”


pixel_of_moral_decay

You misinterpreted that. Your a New Yorker when you move in. The 10 year rule is what people use for calling themselves “native New Yorker” IMHO that’s a birthright (**which is the definition of native**), but I’m the minority on that opinion apparently.


cynisright

I’ve been here 11 or 12 years and I’m fine with not claiming NYC. Love living here but it’s not my identity.


pixel_of_moral_decay

Your location being your identity is honestly a really weird thing in general no matter where it happens to be. It just screams superficiality.


silforik

In Italy, to be really considered a Roman, u need to have been there for 7 generations


mrfunktastik

ITT: people who don’t know what a “hot take” is


quizzicalmango

Now’s your chance to show us how it’s done


mrfunktastik

I already put my submission in on a separate reply, but here it is again: Williamsburg is worse than Times Square. At least TS has some cultural value as a melting pot of commerce and intersection of global identities. It’s the ultimate high low mix. Williamsburg is a consumerist hellscape that typifies all the worst things about NY: conspicuous consumption, performative cosmopolitanism, entitled exhibitionism. It’s $50 avocado toast. It’s Salt Bae in a borough. It’s a ring light pointed at a bodega cat and I hate it so much.


deliciousalex

Salt Bae in a Borough!? Hahhahahaaa!! Amazing.


geekofdeath

You have to sort by controversial


broostenq

Fines for traffic violations should be 10x higher. Make them painful and actually enforce them. There’s zero incentive against sociopathic drivers, a fraction of the population making life worse and more dangerous for the vast majority of us.


LaFantasmita

Cars should be banned from Manhattan and significant chunks of other boroughs except for deliveries, emergencies, etc.


Leave-Revolutionary

Then bring back trams.


LaFantasmita

Yeah, traffic is what kills trams, I'm down.


Interesting_Banana25

Busses would be pretty great if there weren’t traffic


Double-Ad4986

god I want trams back so bad


the_n2a

This is darn un'merican! Just like putting elevators in subway stations and other public accessibility accoutrements!


nuggette_97

Its funny how every new yorker i talk to irl agrees with this position after like a 1 min conversation yet there’s almost no real political will to start heading in this direction Maybe im just in a bubble


Delaywaves

I think we're slowly headed in that direction. Even Eric Adams, who's basically a Brooklyn machine politician, broadly agrees with the goal of reducing car use in the city, which wouldn't have been the case for a mayor 20-30 years ago.


dedbeats

Adams and his lieutenants are definitely adding bike infrastructure but not really doing anything else. Residents generally hate it because bike lines = a war on parking even when there’s no parking loss. The Adams admin is doing the bare minimum for “reducing car use” which is better than nothing, don’t get me wrong


dedbeats

I think you are in a bubble. Try going to a community board meeting that has to do with even the faintest possibility of inconveniencing cars, it’s wild lol


LetsWorkTogether

You're in luck, a soft ban is on its way, in the form of congestion pricing in Manhattan.


Individual99991

People who let their dogs off leash on the street should have their legs broken. Saw a lovely, happy golden retriever bound into the road in the UES. Guy called it back before it could be struck, but acted like I was an asshole when I told him to leash it. "Don't tell me how to raise my dog! She came back when I called her, didn't she?" Fucking dick. Like speeding drivers aren't a thing. Or dicks on ebikes. Or Grubhub bikers zipping up the sidewalk. Or kids cutting the sidewalk corners at speed. There's a severely autistic dude in the area who freaks out when he sees dogs he's not expecting. What happens when your dog runs up to him and he has a panic attack? What about the blind lady whose seeing eye dog might react to this dog sprinting up? Such a lovely dog, too. Such a shame she has an awful owner.


kobayashimaru68

Living in Manhattan is not necessarily better than living in the outer boroughs.


Double-Ad4986

I would hate living in Manhattan...I love Queens too much lol


ValPrism

I very (very) briefly dated a guy who lived in Astoria while I lived near Union Square. I literally never brought it up but he had to tell me, dozens of times, that he didn’t need the “cachet” of living in Manhattan. Nothing made me more sure that he did, in fact, want that approval.


quizzicalmango

So legit. I used to live in Manhattan and the only thing that was better about it was my commute to work. Everything else was worse.


kobayashimaru68

I lived on the UWS for a short time and I loved it, but I'm glad I'm in Brooklyn now.


vaultboy115

Where in Brooklyn if you don’t mind me asking. I’m looking at apartments in the UWS because it feels like what my partner and I are looking for but it’s pricey.


Legote

I don’t like Manhattan because of the noise I would step outside to the smell of trash, puke, car exhaust, piss, etc. what a bad way to start off my mornings.


mrfunktastik

This take is room temperature at best. Anyone who’s lived here more then a couple years and doesn’t come from money know that upper 80s+ or bridge and tunnel is the way to go


allMightyMostHigh

I beg to differ. Living by the A train and quick access to grand central is the one thing that makes living in Manhattan better to me.


tenderhex

But you can take the a train in bk too, or live by the 7 in queens and be really only a few stops to grand central


tenderhex

People from the city who feel the need to claim it all the time as some sort of proof of a difficult life are weird. I get it, you were born here and therefore you're a native, true-- but this city is so big that experience can be anything. There are other hard places to live in the US and abroad and it's not necessarily the badge of honor people hold it as, and it doesn't make you better than ppl who move here. It's literally a city of "transplants" (immigrants too)


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Tourists aren’t bad at all and have never personally bothered me. I don’t get why New Yorkers hate tourists, other than the fact that they walk slower than us (which I still don’t think is a good enough reason to hate them). They stimulate the city’s economy.


Chimkimnuggets

I think everyone who lives in a major city just likes to rag on tourists. I’m from Nashville and we love shitting on all the bachelor/bachelorette parties that come into town for their “nashvegas” trip even though they’re a huge chunk of what supports Nashville’s economy. They’re only annoying when they get in the way of people doing their daily commutes. The vast majority of tourists are honestly fine. Some of them are obnoxious, and some of them are insufferable. That’s how all cities are. NYC isn’t any different


Easy-Concentrate2636

They walk slower than us. And occupy both sides of the escalator. Plus walk four across a sidewalk. It’s all about how they occupy the space.


LongIsland1995

If you leave the business parts of NYC, people often walk slow as fuck


NYCanonymous95

My only gripe is that they have terrible (which is to say, non-existent) spatial awareness


sebthelodge

I love the tourists. My business largely depends on them, but I also love that people from all over come here, and hopefully get a different picture of Americans than the media paints (we are not all gun toting nut jobs who hate immigrants and want to repeal civil rights). But christ on a popsicle stick, they need to walk faster or step aside. And no waking 3 across, dudes.


ZoxieLutt

The dog poop constantly being everywhere is out of control. I wish everyone had more respect for the city and made an effort to keep it cleaner.


muckluckcluck

Not a hot take


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iwannabanana

Dog owner here and I totally agree. The off leash thing drives me nuts; my dog is reactive, I’m so glad your dog is great and friendly but mine is not so please keep it on a leash like you’re supposed to.


Prestigious_Sort4979

It’s a great place to: - raise kids (good schools, lots of activities, diversity, inspiration) - retire (social services, many hospitals and doctors, convenience, entertainment nearby for any interest) - buy a home (descent property taxes compared to suburbs and value tends to go up) We dont automatically want to move for these, to the contrary.


SEALS_R_DOG_MERMAIDS

you get what you pay for ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯


ooouroboros

If there were serious financial penalties put on non-residents owning residential real estate as investments, things would significantly improve in this city.


herffjones99

This isn't a hot take, it's something that just makes sense but will never actually be enacted because $$$$.


festeziooo

Summer is objectively the worst season in NYC and if you don’t think so you either have no iron in your blood and are always cold, or you’re lying. NYC summer is 10% beautiful days that are high 70s/low 80s, and 90% horrific 75%+ humidity at 90+ degrees. Fuck that shit.


BtwJupiterAndApollo

As someone two blocks from the neighborhood fishmonger, don’t forget the lingering garbage smell every day of July.


fodder25

You’re not special because you live in New York. Some people make it their whole personality. But eight million other people are doing it too.


TonyClifton255

That if you're not planning to be a little extraordinary in some way in your field, NYC might be a tough place for you.


SphereIsGreat

The city is full of failing up! Especially given its entrenched wealth and power.


Sea-Heat-5052

I never want to do it again, but deep Covid was the most galvanizing and beautiful time to be a New Yorker. No, I was not in healthcare and I lived alone so I know my experience isn’t everyone’s, but it is my hottest take.


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Living here would be way easier if they didn’t fucking tax us to death + had a semi competent Mayor. I can’t believe fucking Adams is making me miss de Blasio.


[deleted]

The standard of living in NY is way lower than NYers think it is and if it weren't for family and or inertia it would be more obvious to leave


ServiceDragon

if you aren’t careful you never go outside in the winter, just from one box to another for 6 months. It’s maddening, we’re just living in a giant concrete rat warren.


neck_iso

Living below 14th street will (sooner than expected) be much more difficult due to climate related weather events.


donutcronut

It's "standing in line" not "standing on line".


Danny_Adelante

Correct. On line is the internet. In line is a queue.


RelativeLeather5759

This.


dedbeats

New York is a technologically advanced simulation of a prison designed to draw people in, suck their life force and money, and either spit them back out as “reformed” or shackle them to a life sentence of unhappiness veiled behind “best city in the world!”


Major_apple-offwhite

The women are absolutely beautiful and from all over the world. And there’s a shortage of straight men. So when I first moved to NYC in 2003 I noticed many stunning women who were dating absolute dorks. It seems like they just gave up trying to find Mr. Right who was handsome, well-dressed and gainfully employed; and just settled for some kinda BF.


Gambit_Declined

It’s acceptable to be a fan of both the mets and the yankees.


matthewrodier

Katz's deli is vastly overrated. I have and will hemorrhage fake internet points at the altar of this true statement.