For Those Of You Who Lived In New York.....What Do You Miss The Most About It?

I've never even been to New York and I miss the food! My husband lived and worked there for a time before we were together, and there are so many times when we find something nice in a new restaurant or deli and he exclaims something like "This is almost as good as what we ate in New York, but there you can find it on every street corner"--lol. Why is it that the greatest places to find abundant food are also quite often the places where you don't even feel like eating because the people are so rude, though? LOL. We travel back and forth between our little village in the desert and the San Francisco Bay Area, and it is culture shock every time. As you say, some of the things are plus things that we miss as soon as we are 100 miles out of the city and others are minus things that we flee. The same is true of leaving the boondocks and going back "home." When we leave our country place I miss that checkers in the supermarket lines look you in the face and say "Hello, it has been almost a week since we saw you. How is everything?" and we have a polite chat before they start counting up the money, whereas when we get back if we make the mistake of smiling at the cashier and saying even just one word of hello we are likely to be looked upon and down contemptuously and grunted at. Also, when we get back to the city we miss the stars in the night sky. They are up there somewhere but not visible.

I miss: -All nite life -Sidewalks -Li***or stores open til 12 -The food!!! PIZZA! Jamaican food. Spanish food,etc.. -The Bronx! -Boston Road. -The thugs and punks -Women with goals in life -Flyer women -New Yorkers have a certain "air" of class -"greenery?"-Grocery stores open 24hrs -people being rude -Those crazy drivers (at least they can drive) -The hustle of livin in NY (cant learn that nowhere) -The Knicks -The Giants -The Orangemen -The Mets -Greenwich village, Fordham Road, Downtown Brooklyn, The Shopping!!!! I'll never stop if I dont. I love NY!!!!!!!!!! FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is killing me! I live in Australia. I've never been to New York but I really really really want to live there for 6 months or a year. I want to walk up and down a side walk and I want to live in an apartment that has the stairs going all the way down to the side walk. I want to go out late at night and eat great food and visit all the little stores. I am so jealous of you people who live/lived there! I will make it there one day.

hmmm i and my friends are deciding to go to new york or australia for our year end hols... after reading your post NY does seem to have a charming side yet at the same thing a dark and undesirable side... Maybe its true for all countries... Im not sure... I would like to hear some advice from you.. should i go australia or NY??

well two simple words: TRAFFIC JAMS I hate it

I mostly miss the food. Just ordered some Drakes Cakes online to satisfy a craving. Almost anything you'd want is available in New York. I live in SC and there isn't any pizza down here in the best places that can compete with the worst I had in NY. Bagels are better now because national bakers are making them NY style. We still have no Knishes or decent Italian food overall. The best Italian food is Olive Garden and I don't remember them in NY.

It was very beautiful that the New York city,, unfortunately I never there.