manages to drive*
― iatee, Monday, 2 June 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
i didn't drive until i moved to marthas vineyard. it sucked. i hate driving.
― scott seward, Monday, 2 June 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
note to self: Mordy is driving, look both ways even with the light
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 June 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
I haven't owned a car in 9 years. I don't live in NYC.
― Jeff, Monday, 2 June 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
^ 15+, and just now i'm remembering the surprising amt of advice i got when visiting nyc not to take certain trains at night, to call a car service, not to walk through certain neighborhoods, etc. sounds like a super snap to get around, sure!
― j., Monday, 2 June 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
don't worry morbz if i see u i'll ride up on the sidewalks if necessary jk <3 ;)
― Mordy, Monday, 2 June 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
another point of contrast: i got mugged @ gunpoint in front of the A train station in waheights at 1AM. i've never been mugged on the mainline but of course i lived in NY longer so give me a couple more years.
― Mordy, Monday, 2 June 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
j that advice is probably dated, you almost have to go out of your way to find a dangerous neighborhood in ny today
― iatee, Monday, 2 June 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Another metric on which Chicago is superior. You can accidentally get off the train one stop early and be in some trouble.
― carl agatha, Monday, 2 June 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
also anecdotes aside philly is statistically much more dangerous than ny
― iatee, Monday, 2 June 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
I got mugged on Park Ave and 51st street once, the night before Thanksgiving at about 10pm
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 June 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
lol iatee do you work for the tourism bureau or something
― j., Monday, 2 June 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
I am actually Rudy Giuliani
― iatee, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
but if you actually don't want to drive and don't want to be a second class citizen, nyc is really your only option in america
― iatee, Monday, June 2, 2014 12:45 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
really?
san franseattlebostonportland
...etc?
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 2 June 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
i definitely had scary moments in philly over the years. but it's probably different there now too.
― scott seward, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
idk why you all let iatee troll you in every transit/nyc thread he actually works for a property developer and lives in las vegas
― dude (Lamp), Monday, 2 June 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
i had a store in a basement with no windows in philly and almost EVERY store around me was getting robbed at gunpoint for weeks and weeks and every night i sat in my basement store waiting to get robbed...it was weird. the nerve-wracking thing about philly back then is you could be out on the street in center city at like 11 p.m. and be the ONLY person outside! such a strange town.
― scott seward, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
slocki all those cities have okay-to-good public transit by American standards but they're not anywhere comparable to ny or most European cities
― iatee, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
maine is kinda the new hip spot for people i know. portland.
― scott seward, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
I have several friends seriously thinking about leaving the city right now and I'm wondering if it's more a function of NYC's increasing unaffordability or just "I'm at that age where people start leaving the city."
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Monday, 2 June 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
"Hudsonia" is being considered by a couple of them. I met lots of youngish recent NYC escapees when I hung out in Kingston NY recently.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Monday, 2 June 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
dont people always seriously think about leaving nyc? isnt that a cliche going back to woody allen and beforE?
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 2 June 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
yeah someone usually links to that didion essay by now. I think the answer is yes, but I also think the city is in a uniquely unaffordable stage now.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Monday, 2 June 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
my brother has a nice thing going in hudson. people are definitely moving there. he hangs out with frank serpico and the dude from lungfish. and meshelle and melissa from hole.
― scott seward, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah people who left in the 60s/70s/80s were more aspirational, now it's less about not getting shot
― iatee, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
i know some mtlers who have fled to hudson who def overlap with some of scott's ppl
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 2 June 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
i like hanging out on that street in hudson where my brother has his store but i wouldn't really want to live there. i like the hudson river valley though. pretty.
― scott seward, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
if you live in nyc you should DEFINITELY take that train ride to hudson for like the day or something some weekend. best train ride. so beautiful.
― scott seward, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah my ex-exotic-dancer friend lives up there
"Hudsonia"?
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 June 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
We've talked (mostly with my prompting) about moving up to the Hudson valley at some point. The question for me is whether to just try to find a smallish place in cheaper Westchester suburb and be commuters or to really leave the city behind, become a country lawyer or something.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Monday, 2 June 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
http://movieboozer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/LincolnLawyer_m.jpg
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 2 June 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
otm moving to la is the best form of moving to the countryside
― iatee, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
I was in Athens, GA over the weekend and there are like 4-bedroom houses for rent there for $500/mo.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 2 June 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn.highdefdigest.com/uploads/2009/09/17/my-cousin-vinny3.jpeg
― carl agatha, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
Ha, a friend of mine is a lawyer in western Colorado for the Southern Ute tribe, so she actually can say "the two Utes" in her job context.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
lol
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
how long have you been waiting to bring that up
"tomorrow... tomorrow it will happen..."
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
so i stopped by this bar in JC the other day and the bartender started asking my about my shirt. it's a nice shirt -- i had just bought it at uniqlo and it has this woodblock print. so anyway he starts explaining that he is into "underground kicks" and his friend "hooks him up" with "fly underground kicks from japan" but he can't find things to match their prints, and this shirt matches "kicks that just flew over yesterday" so he needs to "jack my connect."
i felt like i was talking to an extra in "how to make it in america."
jersey city is changing rather quickly.
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
the nerve-wracking thing about philly back then is you could be out on the street in center city at like 11 p.m. and be the ONLY person outside! such a strange town.
― Nhex, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
xp ha, it is indeed.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
"Jack your connect" is just the yout of today's way of saying "shop at Uniqlo."
Wait until he finds out how great their socks are. He'll jack your connect so hard.
― carl agatha, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
i've got this connect. his name is jeff bezos.
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
yeah usually when somebody jacks my connect i've gotta buy them dinner first
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
gotta get you a new connect
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 June 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
gotta get your jacks connected
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 June 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
jack the connect, protect ya neck with a jam to match the kicks, respect
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Monday, 2 June 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
first you get the kicks, then you get the connect, then you get the jacks
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 June 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
kicks, jacks, it's all in the mind, if you wanna connect me, i'm sure you'll find
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 June 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link