What It's Really Like Living in New York City

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Hate everything in NYC

I would like ro visit NYC, but have no desire to live there. ..

This made me want to move to new york for some reason, better slap myself and remember i’m an introvert

I agree with the one man. We got too many rich living way past ones needs and means. No reason we got millionaires and billionaires and yet still have children starving and people who are homeless etc.

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New York is the motherland of "Rat Race"...

People in New York are shrewd and arent very willing to help. The city workers are terrible as well. It is not a place where you'll feel welcomed compared to California and other states where the hospitality is evident.

Also, there is no real luxury sights in NY. Those who are from there and haven't lived outside of NY would day otherwise, but believe me... even Time Square is lacking. Every thing is packed on top of each other and the living spaces are small.

If you are used to living in areas where you nornally shop at decent grocery stores such as Trader Joe's & Wholefoods, to name a few... Good luck with getting there if you move to NY and happen to live a ways from any downtown area.

NY might be convenient when it comes to walking to a mom & pop shop/grocer, but even those places don't normally carry high end products or vegan if you're about that life.

My advice.... pick a different state. NY is beyond over populated & if you do have a vehicle to get you around, you can only drive 25mph on the streets. NY is not a highway place. Oh and let me not forget the trash everywhere! Just don't do it 😅

what I love about NYC is the music scene especially Jazz, what I hate is the gentrification of minority neighborhoods by incoming Suburbanite tired of commuting to the city for work or entertainment destroying it's uniqueness, especially like Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem

somewhere in africaaa!

I'm in california

You can’t out do New York energy the bests 👌🏾

I checked out homies band, he's good!

Well done interviews. Coming of age in the Village in the early 1970s was the most valuable and important experience of my life. With all of its warts, it was the most beautiful and important time to be alive in just the right place. I would’t trade it for a box full of Mickey Mantle rookie cards...

I dont knwi why people says nyc is diverse!!! Its annoying because its thee most segregated place ever!!! Its diverse in the sense of many people from all over us there but its segregated!!! All by colour, ethnicity, race ect... people stays by them selves and live in withing their race. I remember living the the rockaways in queens, i use to wonder why when we get off the train the white people went one way and the black went the other, until one night i made a mistake stop and lo and behold we were separated by a bridge i couldnt believe i thought i was living in europe it was just a stone throw away

Only things lacking in NY are security system must be tight up means presence of enough NYPD officers around the city 24/7 days second thing there must be drastic changes in this city’s MTA train system like neat and clean free from homeless stinking people sleeping in these trains cars during night commuting making endanger the lives of night shift working people. My sincere advice to NY MTA big people please do visit of China’s metro system and it’s trains cleanliness, reliable on time tuning their security given to its commuting citizens during 24/7 days in any shift ! I am really really impressed thru their present advancement in subways train system which are fully equipped with computer info technology timely running, cheaper safe, secure and comfortable not like in trains of NY where get exhausted in waiting riding in shaky, scary and noisy old classic trains one time during of British rules in this modern era of 21st century ! Otherwise the rest it’s a great international city of this planet that I can say honestly love NY from my heart and soul thank you much for your field based researched journalism keep it up !

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What have I always HATED about NYC? The "out-of-town-transplants" who think living in NYC is such a "status symbol" ... Originally coming from here however - is NOT! That's OK though... I've got quite a few relatives that own the properties some of these "fleebs from Smallville" pay anywhere from $3K to $9K a month to rent, depending upon living space and location! I get paid well occasionally prepping these dumps these idiots hold at such high regard, and myself and my relatives sometimes do some serious partying off those high rents while laughing our a$$e$ off at these idiot wannabes! Keep making that money, doing whatever you do, and keep those rents coming, Momoes!

I'm from Georgia and I have always wanted to go to New York and just adventure and see things that I've heard about in movies, TV shows and music

That reggae dude seemed like he had some great stories to tell. Love his vibe😎

NY looks dirty, crazy people and the subway looks so scary

Stupid people in the Staats, my good this level of nivel!

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whats good about diversity?

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Stay in New York and dont come to Florida. Thank you

NYC is nothing but TRASH. I should know, I'm from there and left in 2005 NOT to go back. I went to visit in 2009 for 4 days and was ready to leave on day 1. Best of luck suckers.

Born&raised in Man, NYC left in ‘93. I hated d hustle& bustle..rat race. Having2 schlep groceries n laundry up 5flights of stairs. In d summer it rains a lot n no fail it always rained on the wknds😡Hated the long windy freezing winters..it’s why I left bcz of the harsh long N. Pole lik winters from Jan-April. Spring&Fall r just2wks each they come & go too quick..especially Spring then it’s the short hot humid summers..Then there’s the homeless, the filth, trash n all d ugly graffiti & the crazy entertainers on d subway..Then came Dinkin ( Mayor)..all went 2shit, lik it is now..No regrets on moving away from a city that was a struggle to live in..even tho I did enjoy moments living there.. I’m glad I was born n raised there but after a while life there just didn’t balance out..now I’m where I’m treated best & better..I hve a balanced life now😊

How does someone making 20 an hour live in NYC? I lived there from 1980 to 1995. Rents were always under 600...even our first apt in Brooklyn Heights.

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Lived in New York from 1995 to 2008. When I arrived Tribeca was deserted. Nobody lived there. Then it was all of a sudden a happening place. It changed fast. Same with the Meat Market. It changed in a very short time from a terrible-smell place where transvestites roamed the streets to the Disneyland it is today. I noticed that small mom and pop stores were slowly being replaced with too many of the same banks and drug stores. Gone was Industrial Plastics on Canal Street plus all the funky stores as well as the fabric stores on Broadway. Gone was Kims Video on St Marks. Gone was the fabulous flea market in Chelsea near 24th Street. I remember going out at the Tunnel and the Limelight. I noticed too many rich people and oligarchs moving in from other countries to escape taxes in their own countries which made it difficult for the locals to make rent. New York also became too corporate. Too much sameness. Everywhere a Chase, a Starbucks, Duane Reed/CVS, etc. It's utterly dreadful for the Soul. I miss the older New York.

I lived in New York from the late 90s through the 2000s, a lot of that time in Williamsburg. We never complained how expensive the city was then. We could afford rent, and we were starving musicians. We had fun and were in the center of the action. It's disappointing now that when people think of New York, they think of the price. New York has always been a city of artists and musicians. I hope that reputation comes back.

NY is a rat race, and it smells.

Left Long Island two years ago after graduating college and never will go back. The people, the prices, the traffic, the congestion, and the attitudes all make me want to vomit just thinking about them 🤮.

I won’t repeat what everyone else said about NYC. Yep, all the pros still hold. Yep, the cons all still hold, though they’ve gotten worse. Maybe back in the 1980s and 1990s, yep, NYC was THE place to be.

But now? Unless you win the lottery or you’re a trust fund baby, it is absolutely impossible to make a living there, as it’s prohibitively expensive ($5,600 median rent, really?) and no, contrary to popular belief, salaries aren’t higher there than other places. In fact, when factoring in cost of living, they’re probably even lower.

Better off moving to Chicago or Houston if you want the big city experience and then going back to NYC to visit the overrated tourist attractions that charge you $100,000 just to get in.

And please do all of us ex-New Yorkers who left for greener pastures a favor, STOP MOVING TO RED STATES TO MAKE IT JUST LIKE NEW YORK. Down here in Atlanta it’s just getting worse by the day, and I’ll be moving once again.

We’re full!

The working class are stuck in big cities because there's more jobs and we don't have the option of working at home, like many corporations have been doing. If I could have a work at home job, I'd definitely move to a smaller, more affordable, laid back town.

I think people are confusing hustle and bustle with the difficulty of getting from one place to another due to traffic and large crowds, sort of like a crowded airport except, generally, the airport doesn't smell like garbage!

The garbage the pollution and the food price is all you need to know as MAIN in NYC, those two things mainly suck

The thing about these Street Interviews, is they only interview people who are walking in the street. Meanwhile, lots of people-filled vehicles drive by. They all live in NY too. SI's are somewhat biased towards the Less-affluent..

Better make sure you have a lot of money to survive

The guy that said we are back to the Guilded age is 100% right..in the 60s,70s, 80s and even 90s the city was affordable to regular folks, nurses, policeman, etccc could buy an apt...that has disappeared only the billionaires can live in Manhattan everyone else has been pushed to Hoboken, Brooklyn, Queens...very very sad...

I get if ur wealthy u can avoid all the negative stuff n benefit from nice stuff

Wow, I learned New York is loaded with rats today!

Wow, nobody mention the museums! So sad 😟