Where to live?

[-Jrabbit]

Painting with a pretty broad brush there.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Asher

I didn't. The city smells, the people are bland and anonymous and clinical. They also have awful, stupid-sounding accents.

thats too bad...I loved NY and plan to go there for christmas.

[Drake Tungsten]

Painting with a pretty broad brush there.

I don't see how I am...

[Asher]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Painting with a pretty broad brush there.

Broad -- that's another good point.

People are really fat there. Like GePap.

Go out for a run, lose some weight! OH WAIT YOU CAN'T WITHOUT BEING STABBED AND MUGGED LOLOLOL.

:|

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher

No, to everyone.

It's a cold, anonymous city filled with self-righteous self-proclaimed "cosmopolitans" that are into the "scene" -- hollow shells of people.

Boo Hoo.

But you proved me right, since you were obviously trying to fit into that "scene" yourself.

So now I get it, you tried to get into the "scene" (whatever "scene" it was), and failed miserably, probably turned down as some country bumpkin. See what you get Asher, for hanging out with people who are just like you, only better trained at being asses?

not pretty.

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
Boo Hoo.

But you proved me right, since you were obviously trying to fit into that "scene" yourself.

So now I get it, you tried to get into the "scene" (whatever "scene" it was), and failed miserably, probably turned down as some country bumpkin. See what you get Asher, for hanging out with people who are just like you, only better trained at being asses?

WTF are you talking about? I don't live in NYC, nor have I ever?

I don't belong to any scene, because I don't feel the need to bend over to conform like you do. I don't need to feel accepted by strangers to make my life worth living.

People in NYC tend to be of the hive mind mentality, they're all so weak they group together for strength in numbers. You're not worldly and cosmopolitan just because you live in some slums in the lower east side, GePap.

[Drake Tungsten]

Asher

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Asher

People in NYC tend to be of the hive mind mentality, they're all so weak they group together for strength in numbers. You're not worldly and cosmopolitan just because you live in some slums in the lower east side, GePap.

Asher 1 Gepap 0

Despite that, I still like NY a lot.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
You're still limited to "what one country can provide"; having French people or Japanese people living in New York doesn't make NYC anything like France or Japan. Instead of accepting this and reveling in the distinct national characters that make the world so grand, you instead choose to toss your national identity aside and replace it with a sterile and souless "international" cosmopolitan culture that is shared with every other "world-class" city on the planet. This culture is admittedly attractive to people fresh in from the sticks, but it seems quite pedestrian and boring once you've seen a bit of the world...

"National identity" is a bunch of crap. I share more in common with someone living any any city in the world than I do with any farmer in the world, even one in my own "nation". As for people who have "seen the world", I would probably make a safe bet that most of those people settle in cosmopolitan cities, because having seen what the world has to offer, they know that one single form of human expression and culture is simply not enough anymore. What's more, this "international culture" is simply more enticing because it is universal. It revels in our shared humanity, not in temporary and trivial differences.

The simplest proof of this is that great cities outlive the "nations" around them. What makes the City great is universal and timeless, beyond these temporary and imaginary distinctions you seem to crave.

[Drake Tungsten]

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It wasn't really a fair fight. GePap is the epitome of the poser New Yorker.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher

WTF are you talking about? I don't live in NYC, nor have I ever?

Thankfully. But you have visited.

I don't belong to any scene, because I don't feel the need to bend over to conform like you do. I don't need to feel accepted by strangers to make my life worth living.

Which is why you spend so much time here in Poly, post pictures, talk about your inane day. Yup, you surely don't crave attention......

People in NYC tend to be of the hive mind mentality, they're all so weak they group together for strength in numbers. You're not worldly and cosmopolitan just because you live in some slums in the lower east side, GePap.

Hmm, lower east side..so that is the scene that rejected your sad ass. Not that I am surprised.

[Asher]

What makes the City great is universal and timeless, beyond these temporary and imaginary distinctions you seem to crave.

The only difference between a city and a country is the distance from one side to the other.

With modern transportation and modern technology, one does not need to live in squalor in high-crime areas to get "culture" and take in the "cosmopolitan nature" of cities that park their rotting garbage on their front steps and cram people like sardines into crowded tin cans moving under ground. Do you ever get to leave your little city? Or do you think going to Little Italy is just like going to Rome?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Asher 1 Gepap 0

It wasn't really a fair fight. GePap is the epitome of the poser New Yorker.

Itf funny because it is 100% wrong. not that I would want to ever meet you or Asher and prove how wrong you are.

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
Which is why you spend so much time here in Poly, post pictures, talk about your inane day. Yup, you surely don't crave attention......

You really think my postings on Apolyton are me "craving for acceptance"? If I were craving for acceptance I'd be more pedestrian and bland and nonconfrontational in everything I do, like you.

Hmm, lower east side..so that is the scene that rejected your sad ass. Not that I am surprised.

This continuing insult doesn't even make any sense on any level. I'm not going to ask you to stop, because it makes you look like a complete fool with no other ammunition.

"YeAH! WELL! NEW YORK REJECTED YOU!! TAKE THAT ASHER!!!"

I am heartbroken.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher
With modern transportation and modern technology, one does not need to live in squalor in high-crime areas to get "culture" and take in the "cosmopolitan nature" of cities that park their rotting garbage on their front steps and cram people like sardines into crowded tin cans moving under ground. Do you ever get to leave your little city? Or do you think going to Little Italy is just like going to Rome?

your complainst about NY are a bad rehash of some 1970's article. Keep up with the times.

As for leaving NYC, I do, and go to other nice cities, ignoring all the crap in between. I loved the atmosphere in Vienna, and Chicago is a nice town.