Why I Hate Living in NYC - Reasons Not to Move to NYC 

Crime, crazy people, traffic, congestion, expensive, giant rats, taxes, tolls and more

Agreed! definitely a hustle, and not as glamorous as people make it seem

@@schoe6309 a woman

OMG. Well written. Being a New Yorker is a state of mind. Everyone is hustling.

As a New Yorker I approve these comments..Not for the faint of heart!

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Please do. We don’t need your negativity. Thanks.

@@damnjustassignmeone no negativity ! It’s called being honest my friend. You should try it sometime. Now u have a good one luv 🤙🏾

@@kamyiamonee3798 I guess that’s your reality. It’s not mine. I like NY. I’ve lived here over 20 years. Other cities always bore me after some time.

Lmao I live in Chicago and it is not very similar. Our transit is way less reliable, our restaurant and theater scenes is second tier to NY, we don't get the same amount of options when it comes to culture festivals. Like there's a reason NYC and LA are more expensive they have everything especially NY

@@pimpnamedslickback7780 I honestly loved Chicago aside from the weather. While it is definitely not LA or NY, I do think it checks off most boxes for people looking to live in a major city.

@@pimpnamedslickback7780 yeah I never got why people liked the city >_> I live in walking distance from the Japanese stores in the suburbs, that's enough for me

@@pimpnamedslickback7780 I see your point, but surely Chicago is a big step up from Detroit, isn't it?

lol I will def use that line next time!

I used to live there and no I don't miss it at all.

30 mins isnt that long of a drive tbh

Bro has never heard of small cities or towns 😂

It’s the main character energy of transplants. You are not going to 🎶make it after all! 🎶 NYC is a player and transplants are Pick Meees! 😂😂😂

Have not heard that but I agree! People who leave tend to stay away because they learn to get comfortable with quiet or driving a car or having a nice yard lol

@@schoe6309 All of that is true for me. I haven’t been back since 2006 and except for pizza and Chinese food, I don’t miss it at all. I do watch videos about New York City from time to time, particularly those posted by Cash Jordan and it seems like New York City is returning to the cesspool it was when I grew up in the 1970s and the 1980s. If you want my advice young lady, get out while you are young and beautiful. New York City will make you hard and grizzled.

@@MrSethmo13 I believe that New York is WAY WORSE than it was back in the 1970’s and 1980’s.

@@1525boy I don’t mean to argue with you, but I am curious. Did you experience New York City in the 1970s and the 1980s? I watch videos about New York City nowadays and I am hearing RU-vidrs make remarks like “the subways just aren’t safe anymore“. Back in the 1970s and the 1980s, it was well known that the subways were a mugger’s paradise. You didn’t dare ride the subways alone at night, and if you did, you were taking your life in your own hands. The subways of the 1970s in the 1980s gave rise to the Guardian Angels, a group of volunteer vigilantes with martial arts training that would patrol the subways after dark to protect riders from the very well known threat of violent attacks by muggers and thieves. And it wasn’t just the subways. In 1974, at the tender age of eight, I was mugged for the first time in my own neighborhood in broad daylight on a Sunday afternoon. And that was just the first of several such incidents, the last of which entailed me being mugged at knife point in broad daylight at the age of 17 in 1983, again in my own neighborhood. So I’m curious, if you experienced New York City back in the 1970s and the 1980s and if you still reside there today, that would give a lot of credibility to your opinion that things are worse now. But if you are much younger than me and if you have only experienced New York City over the past 20 years, I think you lack the basis for making a reliable comparison/assessment. I would suggest that you go to your Google search engine and type in the following search: “in terms of crime, is New York City worse now than it was in the 1970s and the 1980s?” When you’ve done that, you will have an objective answer that resolves this dispute once and for all.

Good to hear. We have our problems, but overall, CA people are welcoming. Watch out for “friendly strangers” in LA. Two months a year it gets hot, that’s about it. Screwy weather in spring. No twilight. The cliche is true that the night falls suddenly. I consider myself lucky to have been able to stay here. It wasn’t easy

Subways don’t have bedbugs. I’ve never had bedbugs, and Ive ridden the subway at least twice everyday for over 20 years.

I was holding a railing in subway one time and saw one crawling down my arm. Lots of the immigrants and people who live in low income housing have bedbugs in nyc. They sell used mattresses with bedbugs in them too

@@damnjustassignmeone adults know that their experience does not dictate the truth for all.

Right. Also she’s stating the obvious about NYC. You don’t have to live in NYC to know this. It’s apparent visiting.

Try the metro in the Asian countries. Blows NYC metro out of the water.

Until you are out drinking late. And have to take a $70 cab ride home. Don't ask me how I know. LOL.

​@@joannabusinessaccount729324 hours?

Enjoy what? The Boston metro that stops at 10pm every night?

The Boston mayor wants to stop arrests for theft, disorderly conduct, shoplifting. It’s going the way of NYC. Lawlessness.

Exemplar falsehood 😂

Move to Tokyo then? I’ll stay in New York.

@@damnjustassignmeone thanks for giving me permission lol

@@supervro3071 If all you want is on time trains and order, Tokyo is the place. Just remember, though, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down in Japan.

@@damnjustassignmeone thanks

Thank you?? that's quite the compliment

You kinda look like her too

There was a time when I picked up trash from the ground when I saw it. After a while, I had to stop because it was exhausting! There is an endless amount and a lot of it is absolutely disgusting - feces, used tampons, human teeth, etc. I do think that a lot of people who live here just have to turn the other way so that they don't become completely disheartened.

Actually, lived in Brooklyn for a bit too! I’m just trying to negate all the videos out there about how incredible NYC is and give a more realstic view.

Right. It is what it’s always been, which is why people are always bending over backwards to live there. It’s literally a status symbol to some people. I swear they are in it for the jealous friends back home.

@@cmg25 I live in Queens. Hardly a status symbol to anyone. I moved many years ago from the Midwest bc my gf got a job here. And I just ended up not wanting to leave.

@@damnjustassignmeone As a NYer who has been in a room full of people from Ohio, I beg to differ. Also, the specific use of the phrase “some people” was very intentional. Be well!

@@cmg25 As a native midwesterner, I can assure you that people from Ohio are nowhere near as impressed as you think they are. People are nice in the Midwest. If they’re thinking “why would anyone want to live in a place like that,” they’re definitely not going to say it.

I’m from the Midwest. I’ve lived in NYC now for 20 years. There’s nothing mean about New Yorkers.

@@damnjustassignmeonelol this guys under every comment. relax buddy seems like the city owns you

I noticed that. Like a middle schooler..fusion annoying,