Gawd what an awefull place. Everyone is always pissed off, mumbling to themselves, yelling the F'bomb, bumping, pushing, beeping.....

I spent 5 hours walking the streets of downtown (mostly a radius of time square...rockerfeller, empire state building)....

I got stuck at that MTV thing with everyone gridlocked... one guys yells "point blank...please get the fxxk moving" right in front of all of these kids...

I gave away about $4 in change to some of the sickest looking people I have ever seen in my life....

I am back in normal/clean/innocent PA.

Scot

 

What do you mean, that stuff builds character. I wouldn't have it any other way. I love when people complain about profanity in front of children. Let's be real, kids now a days are more vulgar than any adult. Sure everything is normal/clean/innocent when you live with all those Amish people and their horse driven carriages. By the way you're suppose to ignore the panhandlers.

 

hehe.. i never swear around my kids... people were just mumbling the f-bomb as they walked. and why the hell do they let MTV have that horrible studio right there with all of those Fuxxing kids blocking everyone just to see NOTHING.

by the way... are you allowed to do a Right on Red in Manhattan??? some cop asked me what I was doing? I said.. right on red... he said not in Manhattan???

Scot

 

Hehe...no rights on red in nyc, unless explicitly stated. I'd say there are a handful of "Right Turn on Red Permitted" here and there.

Now, about the profanity... well, there's more than a f*cking mouthful of that all over here... <VBG!>

What pisses me off the *most* is driving my stook in manhattan with all the potholes! :-)

 

i love the pushyness the rudeness the vulgarness. i'v e grown accustom to it and when i travel anywhere else i wonder how people could be so nice. those people wouldn't last a week in NYC. my fav part is people are honking at you to move even before the light turns green.

 

I'm with Scot on this one. I was there last summer visiting my brother, and while it's a fun place to be in, I would never live there. I honestly can't think of a worse place to raise a kid than downtown New York, IMO.

 

Hmm...let's see, raise kids in Tribeca where people live like kings within 1 mile of one of the best public high schools in the country and under the shadow of buildings that house the brilliant minds that drive our world's economy, or...in podunk, USA, where kids learn the nuances of cat torture and demon worship under the shade of the lynch-mob's tree?

It's funny how so many people are scared of New York, but I get jumpy in places like Utah, Idaho, Colorado, etc.

(Don't worry, I've been to all those states (hell, I grew up running around in the forests and farms of Washington State) -- I've had good times and bad times all over and I love to see new places, but I wouldn't subject my kids to the culture in any of them).

Oh, yeah. And Scot, you should appreciate the fact that my collegue from work and I were walking from Grand Central to the Javits Center to see the auto show (again), and as we passed through the area you mentioned we were struck by how utterly destitute that part of NYC is. And we both live about fifty blocks south of there. That's the beauty of New York -- it's the entire human spectrum packed onto a tiny island and sped up for your viewing pleasure!

 

I have to agree with Sunchild. . . NYC isn't the worst place on ewarth to raise a family to live.

Scot, you spent most of your day in midtown, which is (IMO) a stark contrast to the East side or downtown (below Canal Street). . . While I wouldn't give up owning my own pool, three car garage, and backyard, (the +'s of living in the burbs), I can honestly say that I have many friends that have raised families in manhattan and do quite well. . .


Now, in terms of driving my S into the city. . . That's a COMPLETELY different story. . .

 

Interesting post....I grew up in the middle east (for 5 years) where we had to carry an Uzi to the beach (no, I'm not kidding) and the rest in Baltimore. Which, unfortunatley held the title for #1 death by firearms in the country for many years. Although, thankfully I lived in the burbs which were very nice! I recently moved to L.A. county. I've never really been fond of cities in general and never wanted to hang out in L.A. However, my girlfriend and I visited NYC last month and man...you guys make L.A. look like a walk in the park. People drive like Sh1T there, no one follows crossing signs, people are very obnoxious (kind of used to that). Hell we even saw a UPS man punch out another guy in Manhattan!! NYC is nice to visit but I would NEVER live there, not even if you paid me $1,000,000 a year! It's way to busy, crowded and finally I would NEVER EVER EVER drive my Stook in that crap!! This is just MHO and again, there are many nice things in NYC just not for me.....

 

Scot - I agree to some extent. Although I've never lived there, I first visited NYC last Oct. Interesting experience, walking around. A few impressions after talking to some people who didn't seem to want my money -

- NYC is an 'indoors' city, everything happens indoors, not outside walking the streets
- Everything is so busy and overwhelming you have to shut some senses down or else it becomes so much of an overload - which might be why some people appear to be rude and ignoring to you (and me)
- The brake pedal in cabs do two things: slow down the car and honk the horn! (I loved riding in cabs - too much fun!)

It was a relief to return to Texas once my venture was over. A great place to visit, indeed, but I like watching the sunsets, the horizon, and most of all, the open roads lined with bluebonnets where I can open the stook up.