Curious to know.....

[YankssRule]

why people want to come and see New York City? :dunno

I live in one of the boroughs of Manhattan and work in Manhattan, I'm just curious to know why people want to come and visit my city. I mean, we have no beaches, not anyting extremely old, like in Italy...maybe a few skycrapers...plays..i just don't get what their is to see. :uhoh

I guess because I live here, I don't see the attraction. :sigh


Janet :yoohoo

[spiffyone]

I'm curious too. I know the people who live there love it, but I'm not a city girl, and I hate crowds and lines and traffic jams, so one of my travel goals in life is to stay the hell away from NYC.

I'm sure it's lovely though....:troll

[WillFlyToDisney2]

To see David Letterman, of course. Why else would anyone want to visit NYC? :rolling

Kidding. I would love to visit NYC just to see my sister (who lives in Manhattan) and maybe catch a Broadway play. NYC is an American Icon and a must visit place in my book.

:)
Kelley

[YankssRule]

Wow..I never considered NYC an Icon.... :banana .. cool.

Don't get me wrong..I love NYC..I love working their, love the plays, love the fast pace..hate the traffic tho :beep ! I am a typical NYC girl...but sometimes I just wonder what it is that draws people to NYC... other than family :D .

I will never leave NY..I love it here..left once and came back, the place I was at was so slow paced, I couldn't stand it :rolling , so I came back.

Janet :yoohoo

[WillFlyToDisney2]

Traffic? Never really thought about that in NYC but I am sure it is bad. My sister doesn't even own a car - takes the subway or walks everywhere she needs to go. I always think of LA as having the worst traffic. I love Southern Cali but there is no way I could ever live there and have to deal with those freeways all the time. :beep I don't mind driving in LA for the few times a year I am out there but all the time? No way!

Kelley

[LesliePHX]

I've only been to New York City twice, and only for a few days each time, but I fell in love with it. I think it's the pace and the energy. (I'm not terribly energetic myself, more like sloth-girl, but you can really feel the VIBE in NYC, it's almost tangible, and it's exciting.)

Wasn't crazy about the show we saw ("Metamorphosis" with Barishna ... Barishni ... that ballet dancer back in the 80s), but loved the city. I started thinking, "Now I realize why New Yorkers think their city is the center of the universe ... because it IS!"

It was funny, after just a few days there, we said, "We have to MOVE to Manhattan!" Told my mom about our new plan, and she said, "Yeah, I'm waiting for the day you carry an armload of groceries up five flights of stairs." heeheehee. We rethought and decided we're not really New York material ... but still, it's a wonderful city. I will be there next weekend, my third visit to the center of the universe. :)

Leslie

[YankssRule]

Five flights of stairs !!!! LMAO...we do have elevators ... :rolling Tho I love the city, I have no desire to live in it, but working in it, is awesome. The shopping :dancers , the places to go...and yes, I love the fast pace of NY, there is nothing like it. We truly are the "city that never sleeps." :blowhorn

As far as traffic goes.. I live in on of the boroughs..and to be honest..I drive to the city, if your lucky, once a year :beep .
The traffic can be bad..but the cab drivers :wired , now they are scary !!!!

I can't imagine myself being anywhere else, other than New York, it is my home, and it will always be my home :drunken

Janet :pompoms

[EditorASC]

"i just don't get what their is to see. "

[Janet]

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I agree; I have been to NYC many times, and I was always happy to leave................ Can't imagine how anyone could be happy living there. But, maybe that's because I am a country boy at heart...............

It really grates me to think I would be put in prison in NY, if I lived the way I do in California.

[marypoppins76]

"Now I realize why New Yorkers think their city is the center of the universe ... because it IS!"

Aw, Leslie, as a Londoner I have to put my two pence worth in here... NYC has some serious competition this side of the Atlantic...;)

MP

[WillFlyToDisney2]

Well, to be fair, why don't we all charter a jet (we have enough pilots to fly us around!) and visit all the hot spots around the world and then decide. Sounds FUN to me!!! :dancers

Kelley

[marypoppins76]

Sounds WONDERFUL to me! :wired

Oh oh oh... where shall we start? Vancouver? Dubrovnik? Tokyo?

MP

[WillFlyToDisney2]

All of the above! I'd love to make it to London to see my brother there.

Wonder what size plane we would need? What's the smallest plane you can take trans-atlantic?

Kelley

[YankssRule]

I don't do small planes..LOL

But I would be more than happy to get on a nice big size jet (drugs included to calm the nerves :happyguy ) and fly around to other ports and see what other attractions are..I would be more than happy to go back to Italy. I've never seen London or Spain, et al..that would be cool.

And ummm...ASC...I never said NY was a bad place, I said I was curious to know what people come to see when they visit us...what the attractions are....I find what you said a bit insulting about my city ! :boxer

I love New York...and as a CITY girl, I would be bored to tears living the "country" life ! :blink
(sorry to insult most of you).

Janet :yoohoo

[WillFlyToDisney2]

Oh now Janet do we need to do a "small plane intervention" here? I used to have small plane phobia too!!! Not anymore - well at least not for the CRJs (regional jets). I'm still not convinced that I want to climb in the Cessna with Mark for that ride over California....

I'm a city girl too, though. I would be QUITE bored in the country. I need SHOPPING close by!

Kelley

[YankssRule]

LOL Kelley..I have never been on a small plane, the smallest was 100 people from Venice to Rome and I cried like a baby..I swore we where going down, especially when I swore the engines shut off..it got so darn quite, it totally freaked me out..was as white as the backround of this post :rolling !!! I don't know if I can get in a small plane again...it's hard enough to get me on a big one..but a small one.....:blink

If you drug me enough..I might get on tho ;) .

Janet
:yoohoo

[Disney fan]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v371/Belynda/new%20york/PICT0028.jpg



Janet,

I loved New York, I too have always lived in the city, lived in London for a while too then moved back to Manchester.

We did not see half of what we wanted to see in really just less than two days.

We went to Empire State Building. 2 hour wait to go up so did not have the time.

Bloomingdales

Rockafella center.

Macy's

Trump Tower

Chrysler building

5th Avenue.

Maddison avenue

Time square

saks

We walked until my feet were blistered. More later!

[YankssRule]

Lynda -

Awesome picture..and to think I see that building everyday.

I'm glad you had such a great time Lynda.
I'm glad you got to see all the stuff you did see. Sorry, I failed to mention that the wait for the Empire State Bldg, it can, as you already know, get long at times.
5th Ave and Rock Center..just a few steps away from my office, you probably strolled right by me :p .
Rock Center is beautiful when the tree is up...but extremely crowded, so crowded that they reroute my bus because it would take 45 mins just to go one block.

Now maybe, I'll take a trip to your neck of the woods and you can give me some pointers on places to go and places to eat. I just have to get the guts to board that darn plane !

Janet

[Disney fan]

Sure Janet, come on over and we will take you to the places!

[Chelle]

I've never been to NYC but it's on my list of places to visit :)

To me.. it's like "The economic heartbeat of America" everything happens there, you know? So much diversity and history there.

I'm not far from Toronto and I've heard people compare it as a "cleaner and smaller version of NYC", and Toronto is totally crazy to me. But heck, I don't get out much. Buffalo is too much excitement for me :lol

[marypoppins76]

"as a CITY girl, I would be bored to tears living the "country" life !"

Amen Kelley and Janet! Need the shops, bars, restuarants, galleries (all plural of course), smell (yes), noise (yes) sodium polution (yes - can't sleep in the eerie dark of the country), people etc etc...

Have to say though that I do love my trips out of London down to Cornwall. Any Cornish folk here?

MP

[EditorASC]

"And ummm...ASC...I never said NY was a bad place, I said I was curious to know what people come to see when they visit us...what the attractions are....I find what you said a bit insulting about my city ! :boxer

I love New York...and as a CITY girl, I would be bored to tears living the "country" life ! :blink
(sorry to insult most of you)."

[Janet]

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You don't insult me at all; sorry you took my comments that way.

I simply could not stand to live where I have to listen to the sounds of garbage trucks, heavy traffic, and such, day-in and day out. We used to get hotel rooms more than 20-stories up, yet even with double paned windows, still had to listen to all that street noise. No wonder I have long developed the habit of falling asleep with the radio or TV on, to drown out the never-ending noises of populations crammed too close together.

To me happiness is:

----where I can have lotsa buppies without following them around with a pooper-scooper.

----where I can shoot any of my many GUNS (including concealed hand-guns) without having to worry that I will be put in prison, for expressing my Constitutional rights.

----where I can cut down dead trees, without approval of some worthless bureaucrat, and heat my home with the remains.

----where I am forced to hear only the sounds of the forest and the many critters which co-habit the same with me.

----where I am not forced to pay a city income tax, on top of Federal and State income taxes.

Get the idea?

[YankssRule]

ASC..sorry if I took your comments the wrong way. :cheers

I don't live in Manhattan, only work there. I live in a borough of Manhattan, where we have woods, much less traffic, and don't hear the garbage trucks as often. And we even have enviromental protective areas in my borough ! And yes, my borough is rural, lots of homes and nice big back yards ! In fact, we are known as the "forgotten" borough (Staten Island), and I like it that way. :hyped And I like the fact that you have to "ask" to cut a tree down..because if we can do that anytime, then there would be no trees left !

Plus, to get away from the noise, we own property in Pennsylvania, so I go up there for the peace and quite (no phones allowed :banana ). So when I go up there, that is my "country" life...but I get bored after a few days..can't stay up their for more than a week :\

Again, ASC, I'm sorry that I took your comments the wrong way, please forgive. Thanks :blush

Janet :yoohoo

[EditorASC]

"Again, ASC, I'm sorry that I took your comments the wrong way, please forgive. Thanks" :blush

[Janet]

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Well, that shouldn't take too many Hail Marys, to get full forgiveness........ Anybody know how many should be prescribed...............? :D :p

[LesliePHX]

marypoppins wrote: "NYC has some serious competition this side of the Atlantic..."

Sure it does! But not for center-of-the-universe status. I lived in London for a brief time and got to visit several European cities, and many of them are superior to NYC in lots of ways, but none of them is the center of the universe.

Only NYC is the center of the universe. I'm sure someday astrophysics, when it is sufficiently advanced, will confirm this. :)

[sengelin]

Why go to NYC?

Two reasons.

1. NYC is a living, breathing testimony to the greatest achievements of modern man.
2. Sabrett hot dogs.

[marypoppins76]

Leslie wrote:

"marypoppins wrote: "NYC has some serious competition this side of the Atlantic..."

Sure it does! But not for center-of-the-universe status. I lived in London for a brief time and got to visit several European cities, and many of them are superior to NYC in lots of ways, but none of them is the center of the universe.

Only NYC is the center of the universe. I'm sure someday astrophysics, when it is sufficiently advanced, will confirm this. "

Hmmmm.... I think this is where the common London/NYC battle commences. A bunch of Londoners and New Yorkers in a room will pretty much always end up on this topic. But there's nothing wrong with some healthy rivalry, eh? Perhaps except when I'm slightly outnumbered... :cower

I love what I've seen of NYC, but in the end I can only come down to raising my pint glass, clearing my throat and starting into a rousing rendition of "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner..." (without the cockney accent of course ;) )

MP

[EditorASC]

I always enjoyed my layovers in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney............ :welcome

[Disney fan]

MP,

I agree London has a lot to offer and can compete with New York with the exception of the skyscrapers!! Lots of History here in the UK.

We will still be outnumbered LOL

Maybe some of our US friends will come and take a look and we can give them a guided tour hey Mary???:p

[WillFlyToDisney2]

I thought ATLANTA was the center of the universe since most flights out of here go there! LOL

YOU KNOW I AM KIDDING HERE.

Kelley

[Kelly M2004]

why people want to come and see New York City?

It is the place I want to visit the very most at the moment. It is only a mere 7 and half hours flight away from the UK (aargh!) unlike 14 hours to Oz or somewhere like that! It just really, really appeals to me. I think I have watched too much Friends! :rolling
Seriously though, all the hustle and bustle of traffic (which I can appreciate wouldn't be so much fun if I lived and worked there everyday!) and the amount of people and HUGE buildings - it just looks great, as though there's loads of atmosphere. I have a lot of friends who have been and not one of them has ever said that they didn't like it - all have loved it and plan to go back again. I would love to go near Christmas time and see all the shop displays. I will get there one day...! But, all that said and done, I do love Manchester where I live and wouldn't want to leave it - I guess I too love the pollution, traffic, noise etc!!
Kel :D

[marypoppins76]

Yes Lynda, unfortunately tis true. But our small numbers still fight well...:boxer

The guided tour is a good idea. And I'm sure we can track down some (kind of) sky scrapers to keep our end up. Croydon anyone? Perhaps not. But Canary Wharf is growing by the day...

Or perhaps we should just stick to the excellent (and unbeatable) pubs? :cheers

MP

[Passenger Mark]

Skyscrapers are cool...

But I loved England, the buildings and landmarks...

Lynda's Patrick and I outside of Manchester's oldest structure (I think) and of course it is a pub... :cheers

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/mark9091/Manchester%20UK/DSCF0001.jpg

But... if you want modern, I thought this one was cool, just steps from the Pub above...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/mark9091/Manchester%20UK/DSCF0012.jpg

[marypoppins76]

Cool pictures Mark...

Just back from a stroll with my iPod along the South Bank. Love this city.

:wired

MP

[spiffyone]

England rules. I cheated and went there in a boat, but I want to go back on a plane sometime. It was so beautiful - the countryside especially - but also London.

I lived for 6 weeks in Tetbury - the English people will know where this is, I think - in the west of England not far from the border with Wales. Near Bristol, and Bath.

spiffy

[beaugest]

Spiff, I'm with you ---love London.
Actually, love a lot of European cities but...NYC is home.
Can't beat the energy there. And I can't believe no one mentioned the pretzels. And the Yankees. sheesh. Nothing like a game at the stadium(yeah,being from the Bronx I'm probably a bit biased..).:woohoo

[JPenny]

It's so intriguing to hear all you big city people talk!!! I would love to visit NYC, and will soon since my sister just moved to NJ about an hour away. But I enjoy our smaller-town lifestye. We're just 2 hours or so from Atlanta, 4 hours from the beach, and less than an hour from the glorious Blue Ridge Mountains. If I knew how to do the pictures in my post, I would insert a photo of my four-year-old daughter on the rope swing in our back yard woods, where a creek gurgles along between the trees. I'm not sure NYC would be a great place to raise kids. But I do want to visit, very badly.

Jean

[Passenger Mark]

Hey Penney,

I was raised in a small town too! WAIT... isn't that a song??? Hmmm.... anyways... as for posting pictures, go over to the "Ask Chelle" forum, at the bottom of the main page. There is a thread there about posting photos. So head on over there, get the lesson, and post that picture!

Thanks,

Mark

[marypoppins76]

Spiffy, where do you live?! Did you sail the Atlantic? That's a dream one day, actually. When I get beyond my competent crew cert. Oh, and when I get over the fear of meeting a 'freak wave' half way across... Or was it a QE2 type affair?

Jean, I was raised in a small town too. In fact, I then went on to an even smaller place (correctly, a hamlet) that contained a garage shop, a pub, a church and the boarding school I was at. Oh, and some sheep. Lots of sheep. I still love the country, and luckily from where I'm at in London I can be out into the East Sussex/Kent countryside in less than an hour. But I'm a city girl at heart... who was it that said "when a man is tired of London he is tired of life"? Too early in the morning for literary refs. Even for a writer.

MP

[WillFlyToDisney2]

Jean,

What part of upstate SC are you in?? I'm guessing Greenville area if you are an hour from the Blue Ridge Mtns. :)

Kelley

[YankssRule]

Jean :yoohoo

NYC consists of five boroughs; Staten Island (where I live), Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Bronx. So you don't have to raise kids in Manhattan...you can go to the outer boroughs of Manhattan, I for one, think Staten Island is the best borough :p , Staten Island has no alternate street parking, and we are the most rural of them all.

I know plenty of people who raised kids in Manhattan and have had no problems. Remember, Manhattan is not the worst place to be, if my memory serves me right, that title belongs to Washington. :mg

OK..this, would be nice for my next destination: www.wiol.com/st-lucia/ladera/rooms.html (http://www.wiol.com/st-lucia/ladera/rooms.html)

Now all I have to do is get up the nerve to get on a plane to go. How long is the plane ride from NYC to St. Lucia? Anybody have any idea??

Janet :dancers

[spiffyone]

MP,

It WAS a QE2 type affair. It was, in fact, THE QE2.

You know you are REALLY afraid to fly when you will drop 4 grand on the QE2, BTW.

It was a wonderful vacation though - and I was theoretically going to England "to work" so the 5 days on the boat were my chance to relax, read, sleep late, etc.

I love boats, and found it very beautiful...the movie "Titanic" came out when I returned and I spent the whole movie going, "Oh, that's just like the QE2...oh, that looks just like the QE2!" That movie captured the feeling of being out in the middle of the North Atlantic (even though they were in a large water tank in Mexico, apparently.) It was a lot like that.

It was very luxurious and pleasant. But a word to the wise...if the QE2 loses your luggage, they don't pay NOTHIN.'

spiffy

[JPenny]

Kelley---

Yep, Greenville it is! Been here for nearly 20 years, but grew up in Phoenix, AZ. I love Charleston, but it's been awhile since I've visited. We have been to Hilton Head recently, though. What's your favorite island over there?


Mark--

I'll definitely check out Chelle's expert advice. I'm not really much of a computer whiz, except for layout in InDesign which is where I live (Mac only, of course!) I guess we better not get into a discussion of PC vs. Mac or it could ruin the nice atmosphere here!

:duck (been wantin' to find a use for this guy!)

Jean:anon

[WillFlyToDisney2]

Hey Jean,

I actually love Seabrook and Kiawah Island which are semi-private islands just off the coast of Charleston. It is gorgeous here but very Southern.

One of the guys in the band is from Mesa, AZ. He's a desert boy!

:)
Kelley

[JPenny]

Ever been to Daufuskie (sp?) Island, just next to Hilton Head? Nice and QUIET!!! We took the kids for a surprise two Christmases ago. It was great fun--they thought we were just taking a drive that morning, and it turned into a full-blown vacation. (Still paying for it, I think . . .). Fun, fun!

:happyguy Jean