NEW YORK CITY. The place to be. The city that never sleeps. Some would even go as far as claiming it is what makes America. “the heart of United states of America. But really its nothing special to me. Ive had been to places that are much more enticing and a thousand times better than New York City. This advertisement is probably the best representation given to people outside of New york. “Times square 42nd street, the brightest city with everything you can imagine.” Well, not exactly… although this city is great it is nothing like what they show in tv advertisements or tv shows. It’s nothing like on television or the movies. Apartments are tiny unless you’re very wealthy. There is no empty couch in a coffee shop waiting for you like on the show “Friends” and no empty booths to call your own like on “How I Met Your Mother”. Most people work their tails off to survive and the odds of 4 or more friends having the free time to meet up with each other every day is ridiculous. Then there are shows like Seinfeld where the majority of the cast own cars and drive around Manhattan like it’s the suburbs. But – who would want to watch a tv show about 4 friends whose schedules conflict every day and wait on lines or stand in a a corner waiting for a table?
New York City is simply nothing like what it is shown to be. Almost like a mask over what it really is. A community that is a slave to work and time. We see money as the goal of life. Honestly to me, NYC is the epitome of greed, wealth, need and selfishness. Like Simmuel says, peoples qualitative uniqueness and irreplaceability become criteria of value, everyone is striving to be an individual in a vast city like New York City but is unlikely and almost impossible. Everyone and everything is objective and never what it seems. Although there may be bad sides to a metropolis like New York City, I also have to agree with Simmuel that this is a place of freedom for people to define themselves. It encourages individuality and intelligence, forcing out closed minded people and way of thinking.
All in all, NYC isn’t a terrible place but it never lived up to all its advertisements for me. Maybe it’s because I’ve lived here all my life or maybe it’s because I’m living in the wrong part of New York. I’m sure time management is important and universal all over the world but here in NYC, the only thing that matters is time management, you have to be on top of everything or else things won’t work out as well as you would like.