Let's Discuss Why New York City Sucks

[Q Classic]

#14. I do not live in NYC, therefore it sucks. Just like how Atlanta and Baghdad also suck.

(I'm sure that if I lived in NYC, it would suddenly not suck. But I don't, therefore it must. Indeed, the requirement for a location to not suck is my presence, which turns the area into a wondrous paradise, so...)

[Imran Siddiqui]

NYC didn't create the Stuffed Pizza

A point in its favor

[GePap]

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

Henry Miller

New York is an arrogant city; it has always wanted to be all things to all people, and a surprising amount of the time it has succeeded. It has always been a city of commerce, and the values of commerce have tended to supercede other values. There is no pretense here of excessive gentility, and the rush was always to the new, the large, the prosperous, the fashionable.

Paul Goldberger

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York . . . was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant . . . the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak-- and so very, very many.

Theodore Dreiser

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream.

Helen Keller

Most human beings are driven to seek security and comfort. But there is another group that can only thrive on change and the unexpected of New York.

Cathleen Nesbit

[Felch]

Originally posted by Naked Gents Rut
You've never lived here. And any place seems awesome in comparison to Baltimore.

What do you have against Charm City? Aside from the crime, the taxes, the corrupt government, the fact that streets are all one way and seem to inexorably pull you into the gang ridden areas, and the strange way that highways out of town are never properly labeled . . . never mind.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

NYC didn't create the Stuffed Pizza

A point in its favor

I thought your judgement was bad enough when you supported the wrong campaign, but this goes beyond the Palin.

[CrONoS]

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

Henry Miller

QFT; It's absolutely my impression

[Blaupanzer]

Originally posted by Elok
It's dirty, the people are often obnoxious, there's too much crime, the subways are a festering hell, Broadway musicals are as idiotic as other musicals, I'd hate the Yankees if I cared about baseball, everything's ridiculously overpriced, LaGuardia's like a seedy bar reincarnated as an airport...

And those are all of its good points. With the exception of San Francisco, I have never been anywhere that was so real, so in the now, so thrumming as New York. While I am aware of its presence, I've not felt any direct danger in my many visits there. We have many friends who live there and most of them have never seemed more alive, more aware, more dynamic than they do now.

No, don't know any of the Wall Street types for whom New York is a rapidly changing experience.

[Q Classic]

#15. New York has the letter "y" in it, a cowardly, waffling letter unable to decide whether to be a vowel or a consonant.

#16. New York is often the target of major disasters in Hollywood movies, second only to Tokyo. Unlike Tokyo, New York does not have insane amounts of mecha, and therefore sucks.

[Asher]

#17. The incessant honking. It devalues the honk. When I honk here, people notice and it actually serves as negative reinforcement. In New York, it's just ****ing *HONK HONK* anno*HONK*ying*HONK*.

#18. The drivers. Typifies Americans, overbearing, overly aggressive, and ugly.

[Asher]

Time we arrived at Newark for 9pm flight to Toronto (~1 hr flight): 7:45pm.
Time we actually boarded the plane: Midnight.
Time we pushed away from the gate: 12:30am.
Time we actually took off: 1:15am.
Time we landed: 2:15am.
Time we cleared customs: 2:30am.
Time I picked up my bags: 2:45am.
Time I arrived home: 3:20am.

Time I had a meeting this morning: 9:00am.

NYC. Destroyer of time.

[Asher]

Plus side: 10 people in a 90-seat plane = free business class and whisky.

[GePap]

Newark!? Jesus, going on a rant about NYC cause of ****ty service at LGA, okay, fine, reasonable. But because of Newark??

Wimp.

[Blaupanzer]

What does Newark have to do with NYC? Use a decent airline at a decent airport. Or do what I do most of the time and take the train. (Train from Penn Station, NYC to Union Station, DC takes much less time than a flight when you fold in the taxi ride to the airport and the security checkin requirements AND the train has more leg room if you can't afford to fly First Class.)

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Asher
Time we arrived at Newark for 9pm flight to Toronto (~1 hr flight): 7:45pm.
Time we actually boarded the plane: Midnight.
Time we pushed away from the gate: 12:30am.
Time we actually took off: 1:15am.
Time we landed: 2:15am.
Time we cleared customs: 2:30am.
Time I picked up my bags: 2:45am.
Time I arrived home: 3:20am.

Time I had a meeting this morning: 9:00am.

NYC. Destroyer of time.

Seems like you should've driven... like I said before ...

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
Newark!? Jesus, going on a rant about NYC cause of ****ty service at LGA, okay, fine, reasonable. But because of Newark??

Wimp.

LGA is even worse. Air Canada just ****ing had to cancel all of their flights from LGA yesterday. That's happened to me before.

EWR they delay, LGA they cancel.

The airport itself is fine, it's the NYC-area weather and the NYC congestion and density that ****s it up. The city is oversized with infrastructure that does not support it.