New Yorkers Live Longer - Health Initiatives Seem to Work
Dec 9th, 2013, 01:49 PM
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I don't think the OP has rose colored glasses at all.
I think the OP lives an incredibly sheltered life and has the resources that make living in New York a pretty great experience. Nothing wrong with that, but her obliviousness to what it is like to live anywhere else or in any sort of way that diverges from her experience makes her attempts at comparisons (like this one) really quite entertaining. She is a cliche of the New Yorker that doesn't know anything past the Hudson River.
I think the OP lives an incredibly sheltered life and has the resources that make living in New York a pretty great experience. Nothing wrong with that, but her obliviousness to what it is like to live anywhere else or in any sort of way that diverges from her experience makes her attempts at comparisons (like this one) really quite entertaining. She is a cliche of the New Yorker that doesn't know anything past the Hudson River.
Dec 9th, 2013, 03:41 PM
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Having just spent another wonderful week in NYC with an old friend who was born & raised and has lived all his life in NYC, I am quite certain that not everybody who lives in NYC is provincial.
Dec 9th, 2013, 04:13 PM
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I am quite certain that not everybody who lives in NYC is provincial.
Not everyone, but quite a few. And what is funny is not that there are provincial people in NYC, but how oblivious the provincial people are. They genuinely can't wrap their head around the fact that not everyone lives as they do. It is kind of an alternate universe in many ways.
Not everyone, but quite a few. And what is funny is not that there are provincial people in NYC, but how oblivious the provincial people are. They genuinely can't wrap their head around the fact that not everyone lives as they do. It is kind of an alternate universe in many ways.
Jun 8th, 2014, 10:52 AM
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Sorry, kenav, I wasn't aware there was an expiration date for posting on threads. I was born in NYC and lived there for half of my life and if I want to say that I wouldn't want to live there again, I'm going to say it.
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Haven't been to NYC in over 30 years, so I'm looking forward to a couple of days in July and again for a few days over Thanksgiving. But - no matter what the life expectancy - have absolutely no desire to live there.
Jun 8th, 2014, 03:57 PM
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oraangetravel - The fact is that this is an old thread and yet you needed to bring it to the fore to add a nasty comment. Must have taken some doing to dig this one up. Tells more about your hate filled hang up than anything about New York!
Jun 8th, 2014, 04:04 PM
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As someone who's lived in Manhattan over 50 years all I can say is….. New York is a great place to live but I'd hate to visit there -
My neighbor is 103. Has lived and walked in Manhattan her entire life. Just heard her come in awhile ago. She also smoked til she was 75, had high cholesterol. So who knows? Those who are long lived and healthy just count the blessings.
My neighbor is 103. Has lived and walked in Manhattan her entire life. Just heard her come in awhile ago. She also smoked til she was 75, had high cholesterol. So who knows? Those who are long lived and healthy just count the blessings.
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