Stop in for a cup of coffee
I have a friend who used to deliver cars all around the country. He said similar. That the state of New York is beautiful. NYC he said was the number one biggest shithole he'd ever seen in his life.
Your friend is ignorant. Its a tough place to live at times, and as the lyrics of a famous song go, "if you can make it here (NYC) you can make it anywhere
The city hosts something like 50 million tourist's a year ( post pandemic) The crime rate for a city this size is one of the lowest in the world thanks to then NYPD
There was a reason why immigrants came and still come here and thats the opportunity to make a living
When someone says "the city" that means to us they are referring to Manhattan and not the outer boroughs which make up NYC. Manhattan is to expensive to live in unless you live in rent controlled or public housing and im not a apartment type
Manhattan has some of the nations best schools and more importantly to me the countries best medical facilities. My wife has been being treated for close to eleven years now at Memorial Sloan hospital for cancer. One of the worlds leading hospitals for cancer, without the staff and that hospital she would not be alive. I made a good living here, I hustled my rear end off and it paid dividends
I encourage every American at least one time in their lives to visit the site of the attack on our nation on 9/11. To read about it is one thing, to visit and walk around the now park, visit the 9/11 museum and the Freedom towers is another
