Comments on: New York Sucks

By: Miguel

Miguel — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:28:14 +0000

I’m currently on vacation in NYC for Christmas……… apparently a ‘magical’ place to be during the festive season. My experience didn’t live up to this at all but I didn’t really expect it to.
Having lived in London for several years, I’m accustomed to what overcrowding, overpricing, insane tourism, pollution and crap weather can do to a city and it’s population. As in London, the rich live quite well here but for the other 99% of the population, daily life appears to be a fruitless and depressing struggle for a little bite of the rotten apple that is NYC.

I’m from Australia and, like most developed nations, have been fed a diet of crap American movies, television and infomercials for decades. Unfortunately, a visit to NYC reinforces the many negative American stereotypes that the rest of the world believes and it would be very easy for the less astute observer to conclude that all Americans are rude, arrogant arseholes. I know that this isn’t the case but for many visitors, their only experience of America will be a brief visit to NYC so it is sad their opinion of an entire nation may be influenced by a bad experience in NYC.

I’ve no doubt that NYC was once a great city but from my brief stay, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is now a run down theme park geared towards extracting money from tourists and locals alike. Being a musician, I was particularly offended by the jazz clubs that bore a closer resemblance to a Disneyland sideshow that a place for artistic expression and appreciation. Luckily I avoided them and chose to visit smaller intimate places such as Barbes and Bar Tabac in Brookyln and John Zorn’s ‘The Stone’. Obviously there is still great music going on in NYC but the majority of tourists will never know. I guess this is nothing new for a big city but it is sad that NYC is destroying it’s own image as the ‘home of jazz’ in exchange for the tourist $$.

At the end of the day, I’m still glad I came to visit NYC. I know that is just another example of an overpopulated, run down big city that is surviving on the back of the tourist dollar at the expense of the culture and quality of life of the local inhabitants which. Kind of reminds me of what Rome might have been like before the fall of the Roman Empire……..

By: rob

rob — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:58:48 +0000

http://www.NewYorkSucks.Org

By: FU

FU — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:36:18 +0000

Hey StBlu, go fuck yourself you racist piece of crap. Go back to Staten Island, New Jersey, or whatever backwoods, worthless state you hated enough to leave!

By: guest

guest — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:19:19 +0000

it’s some of the new yorkers who have too much of an attitude that doesn’t make it comfortable for visitors to enjoy new york

By: pL

pL — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:04:29 +0000

You think San Diego is bad…you should try LA!

By: pooty

pooty — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:55:54 +0000

you had me all the way up until you got back to San Diego. lived there for the worst 6 months of my life. the most plastic, shallow, humorless, conformist, tepid, self-satisfied people i’ve ever seen in my life. choosing between the giant frat/sorority house that is San Diego and the frothing mutant homunculi of new york would be a tough call indeed.

By: StBlu

StBlu — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:18:06 +0000

Agreed, too many nigs and sp1cs here = small gangs, crime spikes, fights….. going to see how my work and living arrangements would be in Europe so long and die east side of Manhattan

MTA you can suck my dick, keep raising the fares and giving more shitty service for trains and buses and lay off all the cops you want so more people like me can get mugged and beaten to a pulp in the “Greatest city of them All”! New York Shitty

By: funy

funy — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:06:57 +0000

New York City is the biggest shithole to live in, high taxes, 90 percent bad neighborhoods with some new condos costing half a million! fuck this shit. For the people who want to move here, don’t! stay where you are, if you have the serious money to live here, by all means do it. All the gangs can kiss my ass in this city for all I care since I deal with you low lifes on a daily basis taking the train, having scumbags as a neighbor. Go pee outside, not in my building and stop robbing innocent people young and old you fucking minorities.

By: gouki

gouki — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:47:06 +0000

New York and the East Coast Suck.

then again THERE IS NO UTOPIA.

By: Ludwig Van Beethoven

Ludwig Van Beethoven — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:09:10 +0000

Listen folks,

They don’t call it “the big crap-hole” (or if you prefer “the big asshole”) for nothing.