<p>I've always loved that city and I plan on going to college there.</p>
<p>Is there anyone here that lives in NYC?</p>
<p>i live there on the weekends a lot of the time because my dad works there and I just stay in an apartment he rents.</p>
<p>I live in NYC and it’s a great place to live if you like to be easily connected, not just within the boroughs but also to the tri-state area without a car. It can be really expensive, especially in Manhattan. Expect to have a roommate in a cramped apartment with super high rent if you do come out here.</p>
<p>I live in a place much better than NYC:</p>
<p>DETROIT.</p>
<p>Well, reasonably close to Detroit, at least…most suburbanites don’t actually go into the city.</p>
<p>Yeah I’ve been to NYC for spring break and I have a relative that lives in Manhattan. I love the idea of not having a car and walking and taking the subway everywhere. Living in a small apartment is fine with me,too - and I know it’ll be lots of money.</p>
<p>Anyway, for the people who do live in NYC, do you live in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, or farther out? What are your favorite things about NYC and what are your least favorite things about it?</p>
<p>If I lived in NYC, Manhattan would be the only option.</p>
<p>NYC is the sweetest city in this country. I go there a few times a year and love it. But living in Manhattan has got to suck. Talk about no privacy and being cramped.</p>
<p>Forget NYC. Come to Chicago. :)</p>
<p>i want to live in nyc.
i haaate california. D:</p>
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<p>Unless you have a ton of money and can afford a penthouse or something</p>
<p>I’ve always wanted to live in NYC for a few months to see what it’s like</p>
<p>i’ve lived about 20 minutes from new york all my life, so I go there often. Manhattan is nice, but midtown-Manhattan? Talk about boring. Fifth avenue, Times Square…it’s all gloss and tourists. Snooze. In recent years I’ve actually started exploring the other boroughs, and my lord, there are so many wonderful little areas all over the city, from Harlem to Morningside Heights to Chinatown that I’ve never thought about. It made me fell in love with the city all over again. </p>
<p>The subways, the falafel stands, the coarse but friendly New Yorkers…my home in every sense of the word.</p>
<p>If I had to choose somewhere to live, I’d choose Greenwich Village, East Village, or Brooklyn. Much more art, life, and culture in these places.</p>
<p>BryDeeC, I actually do like Chicago a lot. The architecture’s great. Not comparable to New York in terms of size or museums, though… :P</p>
<p>Yeah, I like Chicago a lot, too, but I really really really like Manhattan!</p>
<p>For the people in NYC, do you go to the Macy’s Thanksigiving Day Parade and New Year’s in Times Square and other stuff like that?</p>
<p>What are your opinions about the NYC colleges? I applied to four of them so I’m just wondering your opinions.</p>
<p>I do. Morningside Heights, Manhattan ftw.</p>
<p>And Times Square is overrated. I don’t know anyone that actually goes there…well not voluntarily.</p>
<p>So is New York really like what’s seen in shows and movies? glamorous? Is it really that intense? To what extent is the notion that NY’ers live a hustle and bustle life and are more blunt, coarse than other laid back places true?</p>
<p>I do, but in Queens. I almost never go to Manhattan (lack of money), where things are generally overpriced and expensive.</p>
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<p>Well, “shows and movies” usually film in Manhattan, which isn’t all of the city. Midtown and downtown are very lively areas, and there are some inconsiderate folks. The best solution is just to disregard them, really.</p>
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<p>Those are just extravagant showcases, and most of the people that attend those events are Manhattanites and tourists. If you ignore Manhattan, the whole city is becoming a worse place to live because of the increasing prices on housing and food. Much of the middle class is being driven out with the bad home development going on. Cramped ghettos–which attract crime and disorder–are being constructed in dull/crappier suburbs while fancy/expensive residences are being built in the nicer areas of the outer boroughs. Divisions into simply rich and poor seem inevitable.</p>
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<p>NYU and Fordham aren’t bad. Most of the others I know of are public universities or ones I’m simply not mentioning.</p>
<p>i go to a private high school in NYC, but commute 30-40 mins from NJ. i really like Brooklyn, but Manhattan *<strong><em>es me off more than just about anything. biggest *</em></strong>***s on earth plus a bunch of tourists.</p>
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<p>If you mean that whole Gossip Girl thing, then I can’t say I’ve ever seen anyone walking around with headbands, brightly colored tights with dramatic conversation to everyone who passes. That’s all fiction. </p>
<p>I think NYC stereotype that we’re all rude and coarse is off. In a constant hurry, yes. Not likely to start up random conversation with a stranger, yes. But if you really get to know someone, they’re not (usually) like that. I think this is true for most larger cities.</p>
<p>If you look at it from the otherside, take lower Wall St., and you’re some person trying to rush to work and you have a handful of tourists spinning around lost in front of you that you keep having to dodge, another group who want you to take their picture, another group who is taking a picture - and is taking up the whole sidewalk so you have to wait for them to finish - more people who want directions…you get the idea, it’s easy to become irritated. But I don’t think anyone’s (again, usually) rude about it.
Well…I guess the tourist could think so if they’re not used to it. I guess it’s a clash of perceptions. </p>
<p>This is why I like Morningside Heights. It’s a more relaxed neighborhood.</p>
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<p>Well, I attend Columbia so I’m biased… :)</p>