I have lived in New York City before. Moving out of that shithole was the best decision of my life. I agree that it’s one of the most anti-human places one can possibly live. It’s a giant concrete hellscape that’s completely removed from nature and filled with the worst scum of humanity. There is no way to live there and be happy.
A fun way to see New York for what it is is to enter the city from the north. You will drive through beautiful mountains and forests and quaint villages with charming character and friendly White people. It’s very lovely. Then you get into New York and all of the nature is gone; you can see that the area used to be a forest and they cut all of it down. The buildings become ugly and the atmosphere brutalist. People are ugly and freakish looking and there are brown people and Black people everywhere. Everyone is rude or annoying and always in a hurry. Everything smells. There are constant loud annoying noises. There is trash everywhere.
It’s like driving into the pit of hell.
Yeah New York City sucks, but like I said it’s one of a kind. It isn’t representative of American cities or America at all. It is its own thing.
Another thing about New York and the people who live there is that they think they are living in the center of the world and that everyone who isn’t from New York pays attention to what goes on there and is jealous of them for getting to live there.
When you move out of that shithole you realize that nobody outside of New York gives the slightest fuck about New York. All of that bullcrap you endured while living there was for nothing. It just made you into an asshole like the people in New York. They are living well-adjusted happy low-stress lives in comparison to your misery there, and they aren’t impressed by your knowledge of the city or the fact that you know all the places to go or how to get around on the Subway or any of that.
People move there thinking it’s going to be the thrill of their life and envy of their friends and move out realizing it was just a total waste of time. They are usually broke after it all too.