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Why do people enjoy living downtown in big cities?
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i want to move deep into downtown for a while. In one those big @ss high rise things. I like staying there. It’s the sensory experience. Colors, shapes, levels, movement. And it kinda feels like star wars to me, or blade runner or some shlt. The 24 hour energy is different.
i like a quiet, natural environment mostly, but i get it. Beautiful in its own way. Sure as fvck beats the valley.
i like a quiet, natural environment mostly, but i get it. Beautiful in its own way. Sure as fvck beats the valley.
The longest I've spent in a city was a week in midtown Manhattan for a work trip. My hotel was in a good location near Grand Central Station, Times Square and Central Park. Walking distance for work and everything else. By the end of the week I was actually kind of enjoying it. Could I live that way with an apartment in that neighborhood, yes but I'd have to be making millions. No way I could commute and work at that place. Used to do occasional day trips up there but haven't been to NYC since right before Covid.
I never lived in the city
But I do love the energy of New York City
And the hot women
I commuted there for years until covid
It generally didn’t bother me
There’s a threat of a return to office policy in a few months
I’d get used to it again
I don’t miss the smell of hot pi$$ in the summer
But I do love the energy of New York City
And the hot women
I commuted there for years until covid
It generally didn’t bother me
There’s a threat of a return to office policy in a few months
I’d get used to it again
I don’t miss the smell of hot pi$$ in the summer
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I lived in Berlin for a summer. It was fucking amazing. Bars, people, restaurants, people, beers, people. Until you (the general you, not you specifically) have kids, I can see it being insane. Kids need room to roam though.
Add waves to the city ala Cape Town and boom.
Add waves to the city ala Cape Town and boom.
Lived and worked in Mexico City for two and a half years, close to where the stoke market is, Reforma and Insurgentes zone. You could find anything anytime you want except surf. Anything anytime.
I used public transportation to get around for the first year and most of the time after that when I brought a vehicle down from the states.
I couldn’t do it now but it was a good time while it lasted. Always something to do.
I used public transportation to get around for the first year and most of the time after that when I brought a vehicle down from the states.
I couldn’t do it now but it was a good time while it lasted. Always something to do.
It is for the accesss to pussy you fool. How is that Surron you bitch.
Seems like for ever that big city downtowns were run-down, dirty, and dangerous. Then about 1990 or so they started to really gentrify these areas and now you have a lot of eclectic entertainment and nightlife, clean and new luxury residential towers, and a much safer and inviting environment. Perfect for childless people. Tougher to live in an urban environment with kids though. Some cities are more family-friendly than others but on the whole many young families emigrate to the burbs.
What is the draw of Manhattan?
I've lived in Buenos Aires.
It's probably one of the best cities in the world to be under the age of 30.
Downtowns just seem depressing as you get a bit older.
I should add - the manhattan comment was relative to american cities.
There are def. other epic cities outside the USA
I used to go into Manhattan at least once or twice a year. I haven't been there since de blasio became mayor.
That's called voting with your wallet.
That's called voting with your wallet.
for me its walkability. i like to walk. i like to do all my errands on foot. i like all the options of food, culture and whatnot at a stones throw. right now im in suburbia after being in LA for almost 25 years and yea it quiet and clean and thats nice but i ghotta drive to basically everything, the food is mediocre at best and its boring as sh!t. maybe cuz i grew up partially in brooklyn i dunno?
if long beach wasnt so ratchet, it would be my perfect downtown. if you look past the homeless people its a beautiful place. water front, not ovewrtly expensive and close enough to waves. to bad the zombies have taken over.
Those Buenos Aires days are long gone my friend. Argentina is wrecked and Buenos Aires went down with it.
Good for younger, childless people, these days it seems; that's who they are marketing to anyway. I have no issue with "downtowns" in general, but I would not want to have to have a doorman and elevators and all that shite to get home.
I like the safety of living in an apartment. It's reassuring to know it will be really hard for someone to invade my home, tie me and my family up, soak us in gasoline and threaten us with a match for the location of a safe that doesn't exist like what happened to my aunt. Yeah, apartments have its perks when you live in a dangerous city.
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I've been to NYC four times- once for a week, twice for two weeks each and once for a month. Always enjoyed being there. But like Gromsdad said , to live there and enjoy the place you'd have to be very wealthy. It was the only place I felt the tangible power of money. I was way uptown and knew I could walk back 6-70 blocks to where I was staying, or transform the money in my wallet into energy and be whisked downtown in a cab. In the end I walked. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.
I also lived in Milan, Italy for almost a year. I hated it, but that had mostly to do with the weather, the non stop overcast of the Pianura Padana.
Lived a year in Florence and a year in Venice as well. Those were both great experiences that I would happily repeat...but could not live there permanently. Can you guess why?
Surf withdrawals....
I also lived in Milan, Italy for almost a year. I hated it, but that had mostly to do with the weather, the non stop overcast of the Pianura Padana.
Lived a year in Florence and a year in Venice as well. Those were both great experiences that I would happily repeat...but could not live there permanently. Can you guess why?
Surf withdrawals....