At the VMAs this year Jay-Z and Alicia Keys played one of the most beautiful anthems and tributes to New York OF ALL TIME! (hehehe) It almost ought to be made the official town song. ...And it broke my heart that I didn’t believe a word of the lyrics.
It’s nice to see that I’m not alone. I was born and raised in New York, almost 21 years of my life now, but I despise this city. The greed is disgusting and crippling, the phoniness of the people is maddening, sirens and car noises every other minute (really sucks to be you if you’re right by a train) and I can’t stand Bloomberg who ruined my high school years when he blocked all school transfers and I was kept barred up in Washington Irving while it was still “Dangerous Dozens,” while he wasn’t busy imprisoning thousands of law-abiding citizens in a chemically-stained bus depot so he could brown-nose the Republican party, over-developing the city and raising rents all over the place.
I’ve noticed that life in this city feels alot like living on a highway, it’s not settled, it doesn’t feel like a home. It’s definitely a nice place to visit (briefly), but it’s a terrible place to try to live (and if you’re not pulling in the big bucks, be prepared to have the worst job search of your life looking for a second or third job just to get by, if you can find one that is). There’s stuff to do I guess, a lot of it very superficial and expensive, but this city just leaves you jaded and lonely, and all those supposedly great material things that supposedly make NYC the greatest place in the world just start to feel incredibly overrated. There’s got to be someplace better than this.
To be fair though there are those that like or don’t mind those same things I dislike about the city, which just means that NYC is better suited to whoever those people are, not me.
