The air is filled with the stench of weed all day long. The streets are fill with non civilians. That city is on the edge man. If you live there, get the hell out yesterday.
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Never been there. Used to want to visit. Not anymore.
Me too, and it's pretty sad for me.
All of my heroes came from there. Doc Savage, Spiderman, Batman, Donald Trump, etc.
Maybe the fantasy of NYC was always better than the reality, I don't know.
I hear ya...there's probably something to that. I live in the Midwest but I grew up in Los Angeles...people who haven't been there seem to have a bipolar view of it....on one hand they think movie stars are on every street corner...on the other, their view is of trash, gangs, and hopelessness. Reality is somewhere in between. I imagine NYC is similar....somewhere in between. There are good people and fabulous scenes everywhere. One has only to look in the gaps.
Don't look in the gaps in NYC. The rats will fit in any gap.
It was a good thing. Growing up in NYC at least back in the day, meant that your character was shaped by certain dynamics that would force you to be scrappy, insistent, and proportionately confrontational. Those are all strengths when it comes to just getting things done in life.
The last time I was there was just a few days before 9/11. I had a bunch of customers in the WTC buildings including both towers and #7. I was working on a pen test on the 80th floor for a recurring investment bank customer that time, and staying in the Marriott World Trade. We finished our assessment and returned home to work on the report and exec briefing. The buildings were gone before we finished the report. So was the hotel. I've never been back.
I've always wanted to go there, never did. Now the dummies have ruined it.