# St. German and others, is this a joke? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 4, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-german-and-others-is-this-a-joke/636639 "2012-10-04T00:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-german-and-others-is-this-a-joke/636639/22 "2012-10-04T16:01:23Z")
> [@moejoe](#): > > Not one person asked why you left New Orleans, only what was keeping you in New York. You could have easily answered by saying -I just like it here- and it would have been fine. This. A few people asked why you were in NYC, with the idea in mind that moving elsewhere might, or might not, be worth considering—from what you had told us so far, it wasn’t clear whether this was something you should at least think about. You seemed to resent the question, and eventually you came out with this non-sequitur: > [@Anxious about life; need advice/ideas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anxious-about-life-need-advice-ideas/636366/29): > > It is no one’s business why I moved to NYC, but I came here because a man attacked me with a crowbar in my old home of New Orleans. Is that good enough for y’all? Satisfied now that I was desperate enough to get out of there and come here? Is NYC only for rich people and I just missed the memo? :mad: This is a non-answer. It says nothing about why you came specifically to NYC nor about why or whether you want to stay there, only about why you left the place you were before, and it’s not relevant to what anyone was asking. It almost makes you sound as though you [don’t believe any place other than New York exists.](http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/steinberg-newyorker.jpg) **No one was asking for anything more personal than you already gave in your OP.** --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-german-and-others-is-this-a-joke/636639)._