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Why do people enjoy living downtown in big cities?
- Thread starter casa_mugrienta
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Socializing/job opportunities. If you like the arts, especially performing arts, or you like club/bar scene, that kind of thing. My extended family all goes in for that sort of thing, can't imagine why I never wanted to visit any of them in NYC. I tried to explain the snowboarding, surfing, and shallow-water gamefish opportunities in Greenwich Village or Cobble Hill or whatever suck but they started prattling on about museums and bars and clubs or some sh!t.
I like LA, SF, London, and Montreal. NYC is too much, Barcelona isn't for me, Miami sucks.
But I wouldn't want to live in a high rise in crowded zone. LA I'd want the South Bay, SF I'd want Sunset, London, I'd want Westminster, Montreal, I'd want Outremont.
I like LA, SF, London, and Montreal. NYC is too much, Barcelona isn't for me, Miami sucks.
But I wouldn't want to live in a high rise in crowded zone. LA I'd want the South Bay, SF I'd want Sunset, London, I'd want Westminster, Montreal, I'd want Outremont.
Berlin, our favorite city on the Continent. More than amazing, it was safe and people incredibly friendly.
I lived in a rent controlled building on the upper west side back in early 90's in my early 20's. Worked as an editorial assistant at Esquire. It was a f'ing blast. The human energy. The shows. The girls. I had my mountain bike and rode it everywhere all the time. Blasting around on a bike in Manhattan really frees you up - so long as it doesn't kill you. Being single and unattached there was just much, much fun. By the end of winter-- about a 9 month stint in Manhattan-- I was done and ready to move back to the beach. Ended up in San Clemente at Surfer just a year later. Good times all the way round.
Yeah that involves a boat and a guide, not a travel rod and a pair of sneakers. I don't even want to consider what a charter in NYC costs. Or the kind of coin you are talking to live in Battery Park and own a boat and a car.
Nice striper though.
That's a hand-sized panfish. There's a "looks crappie" joke in there.
"...shallow-water gamefish opportunities..."
That doesn't mean ice fishing. That doesn't mean going out on a head boat and using 50# test to drop an 8oz sinker 100 feet catch an 8# fish.
Does living in San Francisco for the last 32, no, wait, 34 years count?
If so...
A. Bicycle (and way earlier skateboard) transportation to places, bus and BART not bad either.
B. Art, music, beer...all easy and fun and accessible.
C. When younger, more exciting class of women to meet than elsewhere.
D. 'Commute' time was exercise for me/way to burn off stress (well, until those times I got hit by cars).
E. Motorbike parking is/was free.
F. The goatshed we bought went up in (paper) value much faster/higher than if we bought elsewhere
G. But nothing is free, so the doublepane windows and blackout drapes are a requirement, as is the doorway bat and strong locks, motion sensor lights, etc., and I certainly seem to have older, more worn toys than friends in burbs have.
If so...
A. Bicycle (and way earlier skateboard) transportation to places, bus and BART not bad either.
B. Art, music, beer...all easy and fun and accessible.
C. When younger, more exciting class of women to meet than elsewhere.
D. 'Commute' time was exercise for me/way to burn off stress (well, until those times I got hit by cars).
E. Motorbike parking is/was free.
F. The goatshed we bought went up in (paper) value much faster/higher than if we bought elsewhere
G. But nothing is free, so the doublepane windows and blackout drapes are a requirement, as is the doorway bat and strong locks, motion sensor lights, etc., and I certainly seem to have older, more worn toys than friends in burbs have.
There's a sizable snapping turtle that got released into one of our lakes a year or two ago.
Absolutely ruin every facet of your day.
Central Park is the angler's playground, gamefish / panfish - you name it - central park has your fish!
they used to hunt for the elusive 14” brown trout up in the ramble back in dick button days too ! *****
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Your input on the upsides of city life is informed and spot on, but specifically living in a place that meets the description? Not really, no, if we're holding strictly to the 'downtown' and highrises and concrete jungle, not seeing the sky, and noise parts.
The Northeast corner or so of SF seems like it is applicable, otherwise, compared to the images of Midtown/Times Square that casa_mugrienta's description conjures in my tri-state area brain, you are living on the Dutton Yellowstone Ranch.
Damn I missed an opportunity to fly to NYC to catch a bass I could get by pulling over next to any body of water without a chain link fence and a trespassers will be shot/survivors will be prosecuted sign?
With this post, it's over for every bonefish lodge in the Bahamas. Xcalak/Tulum/Turneffe/Ambergris shouldn't even bother rebuilding.
This is true, but I lived in other more urban parts of the city before I bought and was somewhat thinking along those lines when I typed.....but yeah, I have never lived in structure that have more than 8 floors.