I guess it depends on where you go. If you stay in Manhattan you get a very different perception than the rest of NYC.
there's actually a lot of low key fat and fashion shaming there.
This has not been my experience when I went into other sections of the city. It seems to be tied to how much wealth there is in the neighborhoods. Since you mention "fashion shaming" this causes me to think you restricted yourself to only the "nice neighborhoods" of NYC and surrounding areas. Most of NYC is not the nice neighborhoods, though to be fair, it is a higher percentage than most urban areas due to it's proximity to Manhattan, and higher than it used to be just a couple decades ago.
I have lived in several large cities in America and the same type of selection process happens there as well. People get an idea of what a city is like without actually going into most of the city.
For sure, and I don't wish to deny whatever you saw or experienced.
Sometimes you move just a mile or even a few blocks and it's a different world. Even in a small town there's usually two sides of the tracks and it's not strange that two people could view it completely differently.
The movie Widows has a fun scene demonstrating this.
I guess it depends on where you go. If you stay in Manhattan you get a very different perception than the rest of NYC.
This has not been my experience when I went into other sections of the city. It seems to be tied to how much wealth there is in the neighborhoods. Since you mention "fashion shaming" this causes me to think you restricted yourself to only the "nice neighborhoods" of NYC and surrounding areas. Most of NYC is not the nice neighborhoods, though to be fair, it is a higher percentage than most urban areas due to it's proximity to Manhattan, and higher than it used to be just a couple decades ago.
I have lived in several large cities in America and the same type of selection process happens there as well. People get an idea of what a city is like without actually going into most of the city.
For sure, and I don't wish to deny whatever you saw or experienced.
Sometimes you move just a mile or even a few blocks and it's a different world. Even in a small town there's usually two sides of the tracks and it's not strange that two people could view it completely differently.
The movie Widows has a fun scene demonstrating this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6NXtzAyjds