Name: Why I Left New York City ("The greatest city in the world")
Uploaded: 2020-04-13T17:51:27.000Z
Duration: 11 min 10 s
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and welcome back to another episode of tack.

Past simple

Today we're drinking a Starbucks iced coffee that's pretty good.

Just to be clear, though, Starbucks is not sponsoring this video.

In fact, they always kicked me out whenever I was traveling around Trend to do work at send their cafes and they would say, You have to buy something and their coffees were so expensive, and so then I would start buying bottles of water.

Now I know three co workers from Google who have just picked up and left and moved over to New York.

And so it seems like going to New York is a trendy thing.

These days may be something that you're thinking about doing as well, and that I would give you my thoughts about it.

I have spent about 1.5 years living in New York, living out the dream that apparently, if you look up like 33% of young Americans, dream about living in New York, and I think it was that statistic that actually made me want to go live in New York.

It was other people's dreams that I wanted to live out and so that I could tell them Well, I I did your dream, even though I had very little ah desire to go live in New York.

For anyone who has lived in a real city like young, like Tokyo, Tokyo is probably far bigger than New York, far more advanced, and any of these Asian cities are very highly developed.

And so if you've been to any of these actual, like mega cities, then you will probably have very little desire to go live in New York.

If you don't know it, then you might just go end up living there.

It's kind of like how penguins will just go live in an Arctic up because they don't know that there's anything better out there.

The biggest reason to me is that it is not a permanent home because you have to leave at some point.

It's very expensive, there's no car culture involved, and there's just too much walking if you have kids and stuff like that.

So the thought to me that I was just going there as living there, burning a ton of cash on the expensive apartments and that it would never be a place that I could truly call home.

It was just burning cash, but I was not actually building up anything.

I think that kind of started getting to me.

New York is not place for young families, is a place for people in their twenties.

Pretty much all the amenities of the cities, like bars, restaurants, events, all that stuff that you're paying for, you can't really go to with Children.

The way I saw it was like a short term, temporary place that you could visit kind of like, say, Hawaii type of thing.

But it's not the type of place where you want to just go and live there and just keep living there until you get bored of it and just keep being there, because every moment that you're there, you're burning tons of cash.

It is an expensive city, and it feeds on the blood of naive 20 euros who go there chasing some dream.

And you know that's how the city sustains itself.

Without that influx of cash from naive 20 year olds who are just like out there burning tons of money.

Without that, the city cannot sustain all its lights.

All of its infrastructure, like the city, would just be turned down.

So the other thing about New York are the people.

The people are very funny there, since the people there are all these young knife 20 year olds who have never eaten anything good in their lives until now.

They're obsessing over like cupcakes like it's the first time they've had cupcakes and then does this huge boom in cupcakes in New York, because it's the first time young people have ever been able to eat cupcakes or there might be like a pizza.

And then everyone goes crazy about pizzas and then people say, is the best pizza they've ever had.

It was like, and New York pizza is actually pretty bad.

Compared to, say, Chicago pizza, they're mostly there are hustlers, basically like everyone's hustling, hustling for money and your doctors hustling your doctors trying to like, get a little bit more extra cash from you Time I tried to call my doctor and ask him about a concern I have, and he would just not pick up the phone or like give me a really quick answer and hang up and then tried to overcharge me because he's hustling, Everyone's broke, the rent is so expensive and everyone's just trying to get more money.

When I left, I gave them my couch for free.

But still, they try to scare me out of even more money by, like keeping my security deposit, and I almost had to fly back and sue them.

Everyone you meet your running like two different jobs.

They're trying to make their dreams come true and that, and I think that's kind of one interesting thing.

It's a good thing that everyone's a dreamer there, but it gets a little tiring after a while.

When you see like, people are just trying to make a little time.

Everywhere they go, there'll be doormen, and they'll just open the doors for you and you're expected to tip them around Christmas time.

You're supposed to keep your doorman like 100 bucks or more or something like that, just to show him things for all the times and for me.

I'm just There's a lot of wrong things with tipping culture, like young people who dress better, who looked better, may get more tips than people who don't.

So and basically all the people you meet there are like young people who have just run away from home.

And they maybe don't have good relationships with their parents.

And they're just trying to, like, go out on their own and make it so.

If that's the type of person that you enjoy meeting, then by all means, go over to New York.

My apartment was brand new, but even still, I had to write running around in my apartment.

And when I asked the management about and looked up the information about this.

Everyone has rats in New York is just part of the culture.

There's rats and all the apartment waas, and that's just how there's like at night, you just hear something chewing on the walls.

The weather was another pretty negative point for me.

My first time in New York, I got myself this apartment that was pretty small, and it didn't have windows that with face outwards, the window with face of war enters many complexes like this where the building is actually hollow, enters a courtyard in the middle, and so your apartment may not actually face outside where you can have a breeze.

And in the summer time it becomes suffocating.

And that remember, I would wake up at night and I couldn't breathe.

The air just became, so is hot and stagnant.

And and I remember I was sleep next to like a U S beef and I had and the fan with help blow some air because without that, I'd probably die.

You know, you may have seen on TV the New Year's Eve ball drop.

The story behind that is very few locals from New York.

I have actually seen the ball drop because they know it's absolute torture, too.

What happens is you need to be there at like 3 p.m. And you just wait nine hours holding your pee because there's no bathrooms.

As soon as you tried to go to the bathroom, you will lose your spot in line that you can't get back.

So you just hold it and you wait nine hours and a lot of people have to wear diapers and you endure through The weather is very code.

The area clears extremely fast right after the ball finishes dropping for New Year's Eve, because people just really need to go to the bathroom and it's just really code.

I would say the other problem I had was there was no car culture like, So if I wanted to go over to Whole Foods, that was like a 20 minute walk.

I'd have to carry a gallon of milk and eggs once a week and walk 20 minutes up and 20 minutes back.

And if I wanted to go to Trader Joe's, that was another 10 to 20 minute walk against.

Those subway lines generally run north and south, but if you want to go west and east, there's no good transit system for that.

Like you could try to learn the buses them, which isn't very good.

Without that car culture, you just end up spending huge amounts of time walking around, trying to get around, and in the end it's a huge loss of time for you, the Texan is not as strong as in Silicon Valley.

I played around for some jobs by them, my salary history.

Hey, So as I was saying, by then my salary history was already well above 100 K, and I was going around Render player for jobs, and it was very difficult to find anything that broke up off 100 K.

And I was basically overpriced for almost every job that had the play, too.

That's in contrast to Silicon Valley, where the salary range for tech is well above that.

There would be some fun the events in Central Park, like in the summertime.

There's free events where if you get up early in the morning, you could go see like morning concerts by big stars.

I saw Nicki Minaj and there were opportunities to see others.

But I just got tired of waking up early and waiting in line for all this stuff.

I got a chance to talk to a New York cop one time, and he also mentioned a soon as he could he would get out of New York, and I think That's kind of saying something about the city, because cops kind of see a lot of thesis ity.

They get around and he wouldn't really give his exact reasons why.

But my final point about New York, Maybe that there's not much to do outside of Manhattan like in California.

You can just get in the car and just start driving.