Most of your largest cities are like that. NYC is compact. never been their. had a good friend that lived
There.my mom and three sisters just got back from NYC.i here it is something to see.used to live in Atlanta
It is nothing like NYC. but the city buses are standing room only at times. you can take the train it is the same at times. the traffic there is crazy!

I was in NYC several years ago,,,Would I want to go back? Nope,,,it is a very scarey place to me ,,,We rode the underground subway out to the Statue of Liberty and then took the boat from Stanton Island,,,Very expensive, and a great place to visit but they can have NYC,,,,,I live 90 miles from Chicago and it too is a nice place to visit but would never want to live in or around Chicago,,,When I was young I was infatuated with it,,it was awesome,,,maybe as we grow older we just don't see the gold and glitter anymore ya suppose?

I went to NYC a LONG time ago, in 1985. I had just gotten engaged and a friend of my husband's took us their , his treat, which was great and I thought it was pretty awesome. Loved the shopping. One bad thing though, we decided to take the subway somewhere and a security guard came up to me and told me to turn my engagement ring around cause someone could cut my finger off for that thing! What the heck??? I'm from good ole Tennessee...... that was alittle scary to say the least. I noticed too that everybody in New York walks really fast, I swear I had to almost run to keep up with my husband's friend! Why is everybody in such a hurry?? My oldest son works out of D.C. and N.Y.C. is one of his territories and he has to drive around New York.. He HATES IT. He's moving to Atlanta soon though, so he's happy about that! I'll stick to the slow moving south......where I can walk and not run. I'm too lazy. :0)

i love The City, grew up 9 miles from there, just across the river. Took the Path which cost twenty cents each way for many years, changed trains at Exchange Place to go uptown. I guess it's one of those things, you either love or hate. I played hookey from high school in The Village many times, hopped the Path and wandered lower Manhattan for hours. I worked there as well, on Wall St. for Drexel during the junk bond era. Got off the Path at the WTC. Saw the WTC when it was a hole in the ground, the trucks looked like Tonka toys. Many wonderful memories of The City. There's a great zoo in Central Park, has a rain forest even. Imagine that. It was one of the best kept secrets and admission was $1.00 I think, something ridiculous.

It is all the things Foxysdad says but that's part of what makes it New York. Very neighborhood has its own character. Park Slope is refined, The Village is bohemian, there's China Town down near Canal Street right next to Little Italy and Times Square which in recent years has been cleaned up considerably. You can always, always find something to do. My husband and I used to drive over on Sundays and drive around until we found a parking space then do whatever was closest. We visited the Museum of Natural History, the Met, the Cathedrals of St. John, St. Pat and a lot of places I can't recall. I miss it sometimes just for that reason. It's funny how the weather is often lousy but people walk almost everywhere while in LA the weather is great and people drive almost everywhere. And that's the reason I no longer live close, I got tired of the snow and ice, NJ isn't as good as NYC at dealing with it. I love FL for many reasons but I still love The City and never tired of visiting.

what's a Sedgeway?

NYC has a lot of history. Manhattan pays extremely well and there is TONS of work there. You can get a bus pass monthly and commute from any of the other boroughs or across the hudson in new jersey and get to work just as quickly.

the reason people don't drive is because buses and trains arrive every five minutes. they claim san diego is the same way. you should go to a travel agent and get a sightseeing package with hotel and airfare and see the sights. a lot of people who live/lived in nyc have never sight seed. everyone goes to central park, lincoln center, radio city, rockefeller center and fao schwarz .... also serendipity for desert is very popular and tavern on the green in central park, but there are many other tourist attractions that you forget to visit if you are there all the time. they have a huge museam of art and a natural museam of history. nyc is fun, i just can't see living there permanently. i lived in phili and they had all the perks and more and the buildings are even older. and its slightly better weather, especially on the jersey side across the delaware river.

ny in general is extremely cold - all of the north east is.

I wouldn't say we're extremely cold, 38lbs... this winter has actually been rather mild here in the Hudson Valley; higher temps than normal and we haven't seen any snow accumulations yet which is shocking (especially given how we usually get more than the city does but this year they've been walloped and we've been spared. Winter temps vary here but on average we're around the 30s and 40s and Summer temps on average I'd say we're around the 70s and 80s though we can dip quite low in the winter on occasion and get quite hot in the summer as well. We're probably more likely though to have a string of 100 degree days in the summer than 0 degree days in the winter though. There have been plenty of times though this winter alone where we've been warmer than places farther south.

I'm going to assume foxysdad meant a Segway rather than Sedgeway.

I'm also assuming when he wrote about it seeming like there are a lot of cities close together based on tv and film he's either did not realize they were depicting the different boroughs of NYC (most people seem to think NYC is solely Manhattan where all the skyscrapers and the majority of the touristy stuff is, so Queens, The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Staten Island - which all have their own sort of identity that makes them feel like vastly different places - can come across as completely different cities) or it was just the trickery of tv and/or film to make it seem like there are a lot of cities close to NYC. If I'm not mistaken, the next closest actual city in the state of New York to NYC (distance-wise) would be Yonkers which is about an hour north of NYC. I'm not sure how close the nearest city in New Jersey is to NYC though. But let's face it, tv and film would never actually depict characters actually travelling an hour or more to another city because that would be a waste of their time so things just seem closer because they need to save time.

The reason people don't drive (at least when it comes to Manhattan) is because it costs A LOT to park a car for a day there. People who live and work within the city tend to prefer public transportation or choose to walk because it's cheaper and easier to get around for them. Even people who live further away and commute often will opt to take a train into the city or carpool and split costs in order to save some money. I should note that it's not just parking the car that's costly - bridge and tunnel tolls are quite a lot of money, especially if you're crossing them during peak hours.

LuvMyTitans had noted about how fast everyone walks - it's because we New Yorkers don't dawdle; we've got places to be and we're prompt about it. On the streets of Manhattan you can always tell the difference between a native New Yorker and a newbie and a tourist based on how fast they walk and whether they stop to look at anything or need directions. Not everyone is cut out for living in the general vicinity of NYC - the city is both awesome and imposing. Anyone who considers moving there should visit a few times and make sure they can keep up with the flow of the foot traffic (and make sure you have a well paying job lined up first too; everything will cost more than you're used to there) before actually deciding to call it home.

First of all, there is only one page here and I don't see a reply here from Foxysdad, so what are y'all's talking about?

Secondly, TESS, I am confused (so what else is new, right?) I thought you lived somewhere in or around Utica, NY, but now you stated you live in Waco, Texas (where I thot Foysdad was from!), then you say you are from the Hudson Valley!!

So, WHAT is it?? Enquiring minds want to know??!!
NDY

NEVERMIND!!!
Sorry, Got MY DOGS mixed up!!

Found Foxysdad pn the way out and it CLEAREF my mind as much as THAT is possible!!

Applogies ALL THE WAY AROUND" ... Am I forgiven ?!!

Please??!

NDY