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Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]
In my mind New York is the centre of art, fashion, etc. Many American movies were made there and I guess that made it a big tourist attraction.
Nearly every movie is based in New York. Sometimes I'm sitting in a movie theater, and a scene comes up that features the actual building in which I'm sitting in that very moment.
But it's not all Devil Wears Prada and Sex in the City. We also get to see the city destroyed by aliens, asteroids, terrorists, etc. If it's an American city getting wrecked in some movie - it's always NY and never Chicago.
I just don't understand why people living outside of New York would hate the most famous and interesting city in their country?
There's a lot of New Yorkers everywhere. In Miami, in LA, in Denver, in St Louis - literally everywhere. They carry their NYC attitude with them, and it pisses people off.
John Updike said:
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."Then Woody Allen also said, that a real New Yorker sees traveling outside New York as "camping".
These people weren't making it up - some New Yorkers are really this insufferable.
Some anecdotes from my own experience:
1) Took some folks skiing. In the middle of nowhere. Had to go to like 5 places, before it was decent enough for them to eat in. Then they started ordering fancy cocktails, from a bartender that only serves Jack and Coke or Coors Light. They didn't even understand why he hated them.
2) Again, took some folks upstate, to show where my plant is located. To the people in the car, it was like a safari. A girl in the back, kept asking me: "What do people do here? Do they have jobs? Where do they work?". I had to explain to her, that it works like any other economy. You need a haircut, so there is a barber. You need food - so there is a supermarket clerk. She couldn't believe me, that these people were actually seriously trying to live their life out there.
3) I had a girlfriend, that for trips outside New York, would pack food for herself for every day, because she felt she could not find edible food in the rest of this huge country.
So yeah, New Yorkers can sorta be blamed for the hate they attract. They think other Americans are insects.
