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New York has opened my eyes up alot. Alot.
As much as I love the buzz and vibe of New York us Londoners don't know how good we have it here. I'm actually in shock by alot of things.
As much as I love the buzz and vibe of New York us Londoners don't know how good we have it here. I'm actually in shock by alot of things.
A few takeaways:
The public transport system and infrastructure for what is considered by many as the most prosperous city in the world is truly abhorrent in every single way.
The filth of some of these Subway stations are not normal, the interconnections are terrible.
The public transport system and infrastructure for what is considered by many as the most prosperous city in the world is truly abhorrent in every single way.
The filth of some of these Subway stations are not normal, the interconnections are terrible.
I have never seen a city with this amount of eateries in my life. It is not normal.
You take 3 steps on every street, every single street and there's a restaurant, fast food chain, falafel stand, coffee shop, bagel shop you name an eatery and there's one lying around.
You take 3 steps on every street, every single street and there's a restaurant, fast food chain, falafel stand, coffee shop, bagel shop you name an eatery and there's one lying around.
JFK is a very, very, very primitive airport. It's not fit to be the main airport of NYC.
The level of pollution makes London seem like a village in the heart of England.
The level of pollution makes London seem like a village in the heart of England.
The level of activity, I have never seen that level of human activity, movement, energy in a Western metropolis metropolis before.
Americans as a people hate tax and you can see their clear hate for tax in the infrastructure of NYC. Their public institutions are so behind the likes of London's for instance makes you wonder where all this wealth creation in NYC is going towards. Clearly not the infrastructure
Like for eg. When you compare JFK to LHR it's literally galaxies apart. When you compare tube systems again galaxies apart. Bus systems galaxies apart. It's actually absurd.
It's a city of extremes. High levels of wealth of grandeur whilst there's high levels of poverty with awful infrastructure
Also one last point. Museums. We are so, so lucky in London for our Museums. We cannot replace them.
In NYC, for one you have to pay a crazy sum to experience a Museum and the worst of it all they're not open to the public everyday. Unbelievable.
In NYC, for one you have to pay a crazy sum to experience a Museum and the worst of it all they're not open to the public everyday. Unbelievable.
We went to the Met and Guggenheim on a Weds and it was closed. On a Wednesday....
But...despite all of this...NYC is a truly special city. Nothing quite like it.
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Also the City of London (London's financial district) is more grand and inspiring than Wall St. Which is amazing to think right?
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