worst shithole of a major american city

boulder is not a city it's a rock

― （╯°□°）╯︵ mode squad） (dayo), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 1:56 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

I love these threads.

you know what, I probably find nyc a boring city because everything is really expensive so I never do anything exciting there

the most exciting thing to do in nyc is go to maoz and get free refills from the salad bar #protip

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yeah I haven't really been to NYC, it's true; I oughta book a trip there some time just to see the museums which I understand are great. & I think big buildings are kinda cool! but it's not really my architectural preference. & intense people-walking-really-fast-ness isn't my thing either, but I think that's a big part of what NYC lovers love.

not hating btw, just saying I don't really get the appeal; but I reckon others feel the same way about Paris & I couldn't explain to them what's so great b/c it's just a vibe to me.

just walking around ny gazing at things is p amazing and free

the met is free, amnh is free, central park is free, prospect park is free, amazing $10 meals all over the place

i have fun around NYC with like not much money at all

houston is a terribly assembled place with lots of dumb things happening but i can't front, culturally it's massively underrated. really cool shit happening under all that sprawl.

hah that's what I do whenever I'm in NYC! xp to icey

btw there are a TON of places in new york that arent people walking fast everywhere, in fact there are four entire boroughs of it, and also basically anywhere north of midtown in manhattan

x-post - Paris is GORGEOUS but is a place that I found pretty boring. I mean there is tons to see and that's great but it all seemed to sort of shut down at night. Then again, I'm fairly certain I just didn't know where the action was. The end result was that I was bored for a majority of the time I've been there and I've visited 3 times.

I've been to the met, been to central park, been to prospect park, been to moma, $10 is on the high end of what I'm willing to pay for a meal

I took the ferry to staten island and I thought that was pretty cool, staten island is so weird

new york has shit tons of variety is basically the thing that makes it so wonderful

$10 is on the high end of what I'm willing to pay for a meal

O_O

Right now I am in Baltimore, MD. I like it but the price of food is still rather shocking. Not like Texas.

When we arrived I thought it was the friendliest place ever. Even more friendly than Austin could ever be. The morning after we arrived, I took off walking down the street to the grocery store, chatting with everyone like it was Sesame Street and just had a really pleasant afternoon and felt so safe.

I guess I was pretty naive to go exploring on foot in a city I am not familiar with in a neighborhood I knew nothing about. Two days later, watching the news, I find out the area isn't cool. There were two shootings on the corner, during the day and a girl got run over crossing the street I crossed to get to the store.

Last night several police cars were parked outside the hotel parking lot and I heard a man say,"He ran that way", then a knock two doors down and, "Police". That was it. No one around here really knows what happened.

This morning we come to find out that this is not a good part of town and it is known for the car theft and stabbings and killings. After watching the local evening news in Baltimore for almost two weeks, reminds me of San Antonio, in that the city has nothing but bad parts?

When they start setting kitties on fire, I'd say the city has major issues. Still, everywhere I have been so far, everyone is so uber friendly.

I walked around brooklyn this one time and saw a bunch of tall guys with pants cuffed at their ankles and not wearing any socks despite wearing shoes, also their shirts had patterns and were in muted colors

Staten Island is so weird.

Fact.

if u say "ive been to the met" youre doing it wrong

for me it's bring one joint, one book and music and im good for hours wondering around.

I saw the best minds of my generation, in a drum circle at grand army plaza

People hate on Baltimore a lot. I've never been there but my ex lives there and LOVES it. It does have a reputation for being pretty rough though.

Euler aren't you a food dude? NY isn't Paris bakery-wise & a lot of aspects of "oh, we went to [x], it's really not the same" blah blah are just the worst but from an actual-food perspective that city is the bomb

I've been to the Met at least 20 times and I still feel like I haven't seen even a fraction of it except for the American Furniture part. I wind up lost in that wing every fucking time. SHAKER TABLES. I GET IT!

san francisco is the boston of the west
--ice cr?m

I only went to Boston for the first time recently and this was entirely my impression

what about new orleans

x-post - Explain yourself ice cr?m. What does that even mean?

new orleans is amazing

SF is that weird thing where everyone thinks theyre really mellow but theyre wayyyy not mellow

this is otm & is one of the things that really sticks in native socal ppl's craws about nocal

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 17:54 (6 minutes ago) Permalink

yep. also:

san francisco is the boston of the west

going back to visit NYC a few weeks ago my favorite thing is now Jackson Heights, what a great neighborhood

is new orleans better than new york though

After watching the local evening news in Baltimore for almost two weeks, reminds me of San Antonio

haha wait

it's harder to have a bad meal in Paris than NY...but they really don't give a shit about non-french food

$10 is on the high end of what I'm willing to pay for a meal

O_O

― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 2:05 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol maybe I believe in go hard or go home... if you're gonna eat out, eat out and save all your money for a $50 a course meal

x-post - Or vegetarians. I've never eaten more goat cheese in my life. Never wanted to see goat cheese ever again for a while thereafter and I really love goat cheese!

i think you just do cities wrong dan

have we done best city in the US for foods ?

why would we need to

otm

ENBB i had a pretty similar take on paris. also feel like i'd have liked the city a lot more if i were older/less concerned with having access to 'nightlife'

most of the time after I pay $10 for a meal I kind of feel that was so not worth $10

ya Paris nightlife is pretty crap

Interesting! I probably would have too. I didn't want to go like hard core clubbing or anything but it just seemed to empty out after dark and I was sort of like, "We're in Paris and it's 9 o'clock on a Friday night! We can't just go sit in the hotel room!" We ended up walking around a lot those nights which was great but it still seemed a little odd to me in that way.

boston and san francisco are two cities that consider themselves important world centers that are actually rather provincial, there are other similarities like size, density, lefty politics, proximity to a much larger city that they think they have a rivalry with, single world class industries (education and tech) - they both in their own ways epitomize the culture of their respective regions - and berkley and cambridge are the same places too - also they hate to be compared to each other which is p lol

im originally from the bay and grew up in boston so im more than anyone really in the world qualified to make this judgement

yeah aero I dig food & I oughta go to NYC for the food too. really I just need to book a vacation to NYC sometime soon; business just never finds me there whereas I end up in Europe all the time.

I don't care about night life at all---don't really go to bars---so while Paris is quiet after hours, the fact that American cities can be vibrant late isn't a selling-point to me.

why would we need to

― max, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 2:13 PM

you think it's that clear cut ?

bay area has non-white people is the big difference, Boston just has djp

lol