Okay. My bad. I focused on the second part of the quote, not the first. I should know better than debate at 2:30 AM. 
I do believe that the Tokyo market may be of the same general stature as the NY market - but at that level it’s about a useful to argue as the question: “Who was the best general.”
And that same $65k in my area will let you live like a king, not just “comfortably”.
I thought that was Yonkers.
But then you’d be living in NW Indiana.
Exactly. It’s all a trade off. I could go live pretty nicely in Manassas or something, but I’d rather shell out the money to live in the heart of DC. You have to pay to play.
Serve in heaven or rule in hell… your choice 
Interesting…I grew up in the Hudson Valley (in Kingston, which I believe was the capital of NY at some point, maybe first?) and most of the residents were natives who would look at our family like we were nuts for going to The City for the day. They lived two hours away and would never consider going to visit. And I think they stuck to the local newspaper too.
Now that I’m in VT/NH, you have to specify what “The City” means, since Boston is one of the choices.
I think the NYC influence has moved north in the last few years. I lived down here in the early eighties and it didn’t seem as pervasive as it did when I moved back here three years ago. Other people who’ve been here the whole time also say it’s increased recently. The factor I’ve heard is that it’s an after-effect of 9/11 - people started moving out of NYC to the suburbs. I think the tide may change - if gas prices continue to rise, people may decide to move back into NYC because of the cost of commuting.
I’m pretty sure Texas still retains the right to do that, although I couldn’t cite it here. I for one fully support them doing just that. And they can take that moron with them.
Minor hajack.
I’ve never been to NYC. I have a friend (a really cute filmmaking girl from Moscow, with whom I have absolutely no chance) who came out to L.A. for a visit. She brought her boyfriend along. He seemed to me to fit the New York stereotype rather well. He was short and agressive, and talked a lot with his ‘New York Intellectual’ accent. We went out to breakfast, and we were overcharged 60 cents. Big deal, right? It was to him! I’m all like, ‘It’s only 60 cents. No worries.’ He got up and argued the bill at the cash register. When he came back to the table he was smiling. ‘I made a profit!’ The cashier apparently couldn’t figure out how to remove the 60 cent overcharge, so she deducted a dollar. Forty cents profit made him very happy.
We were at Venice Beach, and we went down to the water. I showed my friend and her friend the anemones in the tidepool (which he had never seen) and how they retracted when you touched them. My friend’s friend touched a few, and then began worrying that he’d been poisoned and was going to die. (Okay, technically he was poisoned; but I’ve never heard of anyone suffering any ill effeccts from a tidepool anemone.)
Anyway, I found it amusing that this guy fit the stereotype so well.
The late Spalding Gray described NYC, or Manhattan at least, as ‘a small island off the coast of America’ IIRC.
That makes sense…my parents sold my childhood home to IBM (before the plant closed) for around $130K in the late 80s and it’s now been renovated and put on the market for $390K, presumably as a country home for NYCers (a two-hour commute seems unlikely??).
I initially thought the OP was in response to a line in the latest New York Press. It was to the effect of “The best way to prevent a terrorist attack on New York City is for the city to end its longstanding alliance with the United States of America.”
Is this statement really being made by someone from Warshington? 
At least, here in New York City, we don’t pronounce “hijack” as “hajack.” That’s just proof of plain ol’ California kookiness. And as a New Yorker, I wouldn’t have even touched dem damned anemones!
Um, Johnny? It isn’t exactly New Yorkers that are stereotyped as cheap hypochondriacs who will argue anything to prove a point.
[sub]That stereotype is leveled at one ethnic group commonly associated with New York. But not even stereotype-prone people associate those qualities with all New Yorkers.[/sub]
In my experience, New Yorkers do tend to be a little more tightly wound than most people I am used to. For instance, my friend, the late, lamented (well, he’s still alive, but not on the Dope) manhattan once freaked me out a little when he got frustrated - in a pretty short period of time - with our group’s inability to decide what to see first at a museum one time, and walked away to just peruse on his own. Course, I’m a Californian, so my perspective comes from the opposite side of the spectrum.
You misspelled Boston.
Hey, am as easy-going as they get. Except when I’m pissed. I don’t think that has anything to do with being from NYC. I know plenty of people who are nice until angered. In fact, most of the people I know are nice until angered.
I know a few assholes too from all over. I couldn’t tell which would be an asshole by where he was from. The one thing I notice that is very different about everyone else. You people move sooooo slooooooooooow. Which means that we probably seem a little rushed. It isn’t that we are wound tight, it’s that the rest of you are too damned tar-footed.
When I say “we”, I mean us New Yorkers. When I say “you” I mean the rest of you.