Hey, how do you think us from upstate feel? I have talked to many people from NYC who don’t know Albany is the capital of the state, don’t know how to spell it or pronounce it, and think all Upstate is a bunch of bumblefucks.
But I still love NYC, I gotta admit.
What, you think John McClane would’ve been able to kick terrorist ass three times in a row if he was from the sissy East Coast? The LAPD couldn’t do shit about Nakatomi Plaza! You don’t fuck with the NYPD, man.
What’s difficult to buy in NYC?
Not exactly a Basic Household Item, but I was in JCPenney in Ames, IA, yesterday and found denim shirts. (I like me a denim shirt when the fall chill comes on.) Eddie Bauer had 'em for awhile in NYC, but styles change.
Except at Penneys.
That’s not true. You’re just Canadians who migrated too far south.
Eh?
But I am not Canadian. kicks D_odds
About NYPD/FDNY:
For some time now they have been considered (how rightly I don’t know) the elite of their respective professions by fellow-members of those professions across the country.
The NYC Police Commissioner, Chief-of-Dep’t., etc. can go on to run any big-city force (Bill Bratton, Boston; John Timoney, Miami). It’s almost as if no other Commish has the opportunity to do well and get noticed for it.
On this board, I’ve seen New Yorkers arrogantly assume that a person is not from New York City simply because that person is against how the War on Terrorism is being carried out. It’s this kind of attitude that I object to. A New Yorker’s opinion on 9/11 is not any more or less important than anyone else’s. Being from Brooklyn does not make you a terrorism expert.
I was right across the river in Newark when it happened. I saw the smoke for almost a week from the Turnpike. At least twice a month, prior to that day, you could find me coming out of the World Trade Center…and when the towers collasped, I instantly imagined myself under the weight of all that rumble. But I don’t think these facts give me any more claim to 9/11 than anyone else. 9/11 was an attack on our country. But hearing some New Yorkers, you’d think the whole thing was about them.
If we’re debating TWAT, hearing about how your next-door neighbor’s cousin’s best friend’s orthodontist was killed in the World Trade Center will not help you win the debate. It will only make me wish I was talking to someone else.
Shit from Ikea. He found us out: we have to go to NJ to buy garbage. Life is so difficult here.
I’ve noticed that people from Texas do the same thing – mention their Texan origins in every breath.
Any number of things that are easy to buy here in cow country: hardware bits and pieces, Oxyclean, etc etc etc. Ordering things is maddening, too–hope you trust your postman and doorman, and that you’re home during business hours.
I’m born-and-bred Chicagoan, and I will concede you the pizza (I’ve never had a bad slice in New York; plenty of awful pizza joints around here), but the dogs? Uh uh. And don’t start on the “hot dog dragged through a garden” crap, either, because that’s not the only traditional way to serve 'em here. A nice natural casing all-beef Vienna Beef or Chicago Red Hot with onions, relish, and mustard beats any New York dog any day. And I’ve had my fair share of dogs in New York.
As a native Texan, I’d take issue with this statement. It’s just not seemly to be constantly mentioning that I’m from Texas – it’s too much like bragging. Being Texan, I feel sorry for these New Yorkers the OP mentions; clearly, the fact that they’re not from Texas like I am must weigh heavily on their minds, so they emphasize their New York origins as a way of compensating for the fact that, unlike me, they’re not from Texas. Breaks this Texan’s heart, it does.
I’m afraid I have to disagree - I deeply appreciate both NYC and Texans advertising their origins.
Makes 'em easier to avoid 
It’s indisputable - being from New York City makes a guy irresistibly attractive:
"He’s really down and he’s no
Clown yeah yeah
He has the finest penthouse
I’ve ever seen in town yeah, yeah
And he’s cute in his mohair suit
And he keeps his pockets full of
Spending loot yeah, yeah
Oo ee, yeah we’re all right
Yeah, oo oo"
(Ad Libs - The Boy From New York City)
I think it’s the mohair suit.
Maybe I’m remembering wrong, but didn’t NYC (and EVERY major urban area) vote solidly AGAINST Bush in 2004? I take that as evidence that New Yorkers are pretty much not in favor of how the war on terrorism is being fought, just like most others in places where there is a significant;y greater chance of a terrorist incident.
A co-worker of mine who lived in NYC for some time told me I would thrive there.
From my experience of having visited there half a dozen times, I thought he was calling me an asshole. I assured me it as a compliment, but…
Mostly it just means you have a steel spine. Living in any large metropolitan area is tough, and NYC is way, way filthier than Boston or some of the other large cities I’ve seen. And when I say filthy, I mean dirty.
Can’t say I haven’t thought about it. Some of the NYPD/NYFD are pretty hot.
I wouldn’t stand in line though.
Two words - Gray’s Papaya.
NYC doesn’t have the reduced crime rate it has because of the stellar police force. It got it the same way they got a world class baseball team, it bought it.
NYC spends more on uniformed officers (to put one on every corner) than almost every major city. Compared to say an LAPD officer, or Detroit, or Atlanta, I’d say a NYPD officer probably has a cake job.
I’ve heard more than one major city policechief say "Yeah, well, we could have a decreased crime rate like NYC does too if we spent the money to have as many beat cops as they do.