<p>How long does it take to go there…
I want to go either BC or NYU
one of the thing I like about NYU is its location!!! NYC…
Who wouldn’t love it… seriously.</p>
<p>So did anyone go to NY just for fun - seeing great broadway musicalsss or maybe going shopping?
How often do you go there… don’t say never TT it will very much dishearten me haha</p>
<p>And also! do you like BOSTON over NEWYORK?
I’ve never been in Boston. Well, actually, I’ve been there but just passed by the city</p>
<p>You can take Amtrak between Boston and New York, but it takes about 4 hours one-way and costs $60 - 90 each way (with a 15% discount if you have the Student Advantage card). So you really have to plan on going for an entire weekend and it’s quite expensive. I don’t think too many students do it often except perhaps if they have friends or relatives to stay with and/or they have a long holiday weekend.</p>
<p>There are also cheap Chinese-operated buses that travel out of Boston, but they take a long time to get to NY and service is sometimes pretty shaky. I can’t recommend them, particularly for female students.</p>
<p>But there really isn’t much need to go to NY since Boston has just about everything you would want. Boston has all of the advantages of a big city (museums, concerts, theaters, shopping, professional sports, ethnic restaurants, etc.) but on a more manageable scale than NY. And with all the other schools in the area, it’s a great place to go to college.</p>
<p>Me and my friends would go on the weekend to shop in NYC. We just took the Peter Pan buses for $30 roundtrip.</p>
<p>Boston is great, but their shopping sucks compared to NYC.</p>
<p>I’ve lived in new york for eight years, and I CANNOT WAIT to leave this place. There are traffic congestion on every street, and you can’t walk ten feet without bumping into someone. The people here are extremely rude and shallow- The only positive thing going for this place was wall street, and now that that’s gone, there’s really no reason whatsoever to be in this filthy place. The subway system here is near collapse, and the MTA’s efforts of reconstructing the system has only led to prolonged waiting and frequent train cancellations. Not to mention that they will alwso be raising the fare in may, which is ridiculous given what people have to go through to get from point A to point B using this rudimentary transportation system. </p>
<p>Tourists give this city more credit than it deserves- they come to visit the empire state building only to be disappointed by a three hour wait and a “view” from the observatory that is nothing more than anti-climactic. People say that there’s SO MUCH TO DO in the city, but really, most of the things you can do require you to be 21. You can go to bars, grab a sand which, go to blooming dales, walk around Macys- and that’s about the gist of the most FUN things you can do in the city. For tourists, this is undoubtedly one of the most-see cities- but like a promiscuous, gold-digging, self-centered, girl with too much make up, NYC is only fun and pretty if you take it all in once and leave. There is nothing aesthetically pleasing about this city, from a birds eye view, the city looks like a damn checker board. On the ground, you are surrounded by blocks after blocks of concrete and steel. There is also a very high crime rate in some parts of the city, and I’ve been mugged nearly 3-4 times in the past 4 years. There are no stars, the air is tainted, and it’s constantly in the cross hairs of major extremists in the middle east.</p>
<p>Go to Boston.</p>