It’s a place where you can buy gatorade, toilet paper, AND eggs.”
So... any gas station in the USA?
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It’s a place where you can buy gatorade, toilet paper, AND eggs.”
So... any gas station in the USA?
I think a lot of the more obnoxious aspects of that discourse comes from transplants who are either trying really hard to be seen as a real and authentic NYer, or grew up in a suburb of a city whose downtown they barely visited, and now see common features of walkable urban cores as unique to New York.
Sounds a lot like tryhards that want to be very Californian in California. The only thing I could suggest for people that didn't live most of their lives in California and want to fit in without seeming like a poser is to learn how to pronounce some basic Spanish words, especially food items. If you say "caysa-deeah" instead of "kwesa-dillah" you'll be fine.
Anybody who cloaks themselves in the garb of "New Yorker" as their entire personality is a boring ass person. NYC is the best place to live in the United States since it's the only city where you can actually walk everywhere and that's why I love it but compared to any other city of similar or larger size it's embarrassing. We don't even have fucking glass on our metro platforms. Half of the island of Manhattan is a Disneyworld. A decent chunk of the iconic parts of NYC life have closed and are never coming back because landlords refuse to rent to businesses that aren't Starbucks or Planet Fitness. The roads are decaying, the parks are grassless wastelands, but fuck I don't know where else I could get a Tibetan momo, bomb ass al pastor tacos, xiao long bao, and fluffy bagels all on the same block.
From a non American, this seems to be how all Americans talk about their local places lol
Yeah, Americans are bizarrely insulated. They really do think that the northeast quadrant of their town has a completely different culture from the northwest quadrant of their town, but of course those cultures are slightly more similar than the culture of those goddamn southwest quadrant motherfuckers.
The people in the next city over may as well be from Jupiter.
I've heard Americans unironically claim that American states are more different from one another than European countries.
Yeah buddy, some places call soda "pop" and that's more difference than between Poland and Portugal.
Some states are definitely more different than, like, Germany and Austria
The people in the next city over may as well be from Jupiter.
If you live in Florida this is pretty likely
If I have to read one more article about how some people in New York are really cool for doing ordinary culture stuff (like starting a magazine or writing a book) while in New York, I'm going to scream
As someone who lives in New York, let me just say Greatest city in the world only in NYC pizza pie go Mets
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Classiest best greatest nicest cleanest city baybee.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: New Yorkers that need to tell strangers about their high standards and about how exceptional and unique and grounded and worldly and tough and cosmopolitan and sophisticated and cultured they are for being from New York are insufferably boorish.
If I watch a stand-up comedian and they mention New York within the first few minutes of their performance, I'm out. I don't want to hear it again.
I've met way too many like this when I lived in Upstate New York. You'd get the transplants who lived in the city and then came back acting like they were above everybody else. The people actually born and raised in New York City almost never brought it up.
I'm starting to feel like thats just what happens when people move somewhere. Like something about being a transplant to a city suddenly makes you way more likely to talk about how thats the best city ever and how nowhere else is like it. Kinda like when people convert to a new religion and become really devout to it, compared to people who were born and raised in that religion.
What really bugs me is that they brag about their open-mindedness, but call anyone they deem a "dirty redneck" who moves in a gentrifier and thus not welcome in the city as if a good chunk of people living in Brooklyn at any given moment aren't "small town rednecks" themselves.
Not that they themselves are the problem, it's landlords, real estate "investors", and the "muh property values" types.
What.... What do they think a corner store is?
last time I was in NYC I met a guy who was slackjawed that other cities in America also have Chinatowns
Boy is he going to be surprised when he learns about China.
All the new yorkers moved down here during the pandemic and as a result rent has gone up like $400-$500 in the last 2 years :deeper-sadness:
Couldn’t imagine living anywhere other than New York!
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I've been to several cities of global importance and size. Moreover, I've spoke to people from dozens of countries asking them to compare NYC to the principle city of their country.
Among them all and from my observation there is agreement: NYC is both the dirtiest major city globally and has the most outdated mass transit system.
It continues to blow my mind that New York managed to build one of the first functional metro systems in the world, and then decided that they shouldn't ever bother to maintain them beyond the absolute bare minimum, for like 80 years. Surely it can't all be the fault of city planning and Robert Moses, right?
I've had New Yorkers tell me they know my own culture better than I do because they lived in the Bronx. This one woman insisted I walk on the outside of a sidewalk because Latin men would hit on her. I had no idea what she was talking about because only old men do that where I live. But she insisted it was something we all did.
bodegas are hardly special. like, pretty much every 3rd or 4th street in London, even in the suburbs, has those too. in fact we have loads of specialist ones for different diasporas foods. as do like most British towns and cities, at least regular ones though maybe not afro or South Asian , and I would imagine is true for a lot of other places
Well according to CumTown you can get drugs in NY bodegas, here on terf island I have to go meet a guy in an alley behind the shop
You can also get cheaper cigarettes, smuggled from out of state, which is nice
Sometimes smuggled from other countries too.
Drug dealers often hang out at convenience stores in not-New York too
I have legitimately always been confused by the bodega thing for the same reason.
We have several chains that do exactly that and they're just called "corner stores".
"You can get eggs, toilet paper, and Gatorade"
Damn, that's called a Spar, or Premier, or Londis.
The only cool bodegas are the ones in Cuba that give people free rations of food
Wait thats a thing? Gonna save this chestnut for the next time I'm in a conversation about bodegas
Yeah bodega just means warehouse or grocery store in Spanish