Let me tell you, though, when the sun sets in New York and the breeze off the Hudson drops the temperature 10 degrees but you can still be outside in a tank top and tiny shorts, there is nowhere I'd rather be.
I'll see your New York and raise you a Philadelphia. We've got better street food!
@ElectricMink Oh, honey. You can't see and raise with less than was already in.
You don't get to count the brake dust you get coated in any time you set foot on a NYC street as an asset, you know.... -_^
@ElectricMink You don't get to count a subway system that doesn't go anywhere as an asset, then.
But I do get to claim the title of "most public art of any American city", though, and we have street trolleys!
@ElectricMink Ok, but I said there's nowhere *I'd* rather be. I wasn't inciting a fight, and none of the things you have named are major selling points for me, specifically. For street food, Istanbul destroys anywhere in the US; how do you count public art, unless you mean state funded public art; and Venice has gondolas, which defeat all outdated kitschy modes of transport. New York is home because of its New Yorkness, and not because of any list of things.
More seriously though, I wasn't aiming to spoil your mood, and sorry if I did.
@ElectricMink Oh, no, that's ok. Sorry, I'm just used to the birdcage, still, where people are like, "NO ONE CARES ABOUT NEW YORK!!! YOU'RE NOT BETTER BECAUSE YOU LIVE THERE!!!"
People don't seem to understand just how awesome city-life can be. Art museums! Great live music always available! You can eat genuine Szechuen for lunch and go for Ethiopian for dinner, and have opportunity to discover the differences between, say, Colombian and Brazilian cuisine! There's always people doing extraordinary things just around the corner, artists making kinetic sculpture, Buddhist monks selling beads, some incredible juggler in the park doing it just for fun.
