New York I love you, but you're bringing me down

All of the things that I hate about New York are also the things I miss about it, currently. These include:

1. Rude subways conductors and fights on the subway. And people who pull the subway emergency break for no reason and you sit underground for 45 minutes. Thus leading to the aforementioned subway fights.

2. The fact that when you got on a subway,there was a 60% chance that it would take a completely different route than advertised, especially if you live in Brooklyn.

3. The insanely loud Tejano music my neighbors played all the time. It was as if I was actually in their living room.

4. NEW JERSEY (this may be b/c currently the Jersey Shore's second season is airing and I can't stream it here. Unfamiliar with it? Please, investigate!

5. The complete acceptance of insanely rude behavior. I have seen a man in a BMW nearly run down a child, then YELL AT THE CHILD (to be fair, everyone around started to yell at him. There is a collective conscience, even if it's expressed while screaming. Like a hooker with a heart of gold....)


Noelle sent me these photos to remind me what I am missing. You can take it as either "come back, look what you're missing" or "be glad you left, who are these freaks?":


It really is an incredible process to move out of New York. While there, EVERYTHING is about New York. There is a collective being, I think, that forms from the energy of having literally 20 million people in a metropolitan area. And all your energy is focused on being there. In 3 years I left the city only a handful of times, which has the odd effect of both driving you insane but at the same time making you vaguely mistrustful of the world outside of New York.

A friend once described it as ripping out nerves when one tries to leave New York. I think that's fairly apt. Of course, whatever hole I left there has already been filled. Because that's how New York rolls. Very, very quickly.