Not ironically? It’s exactly what you’d expect, because every single broadway show does their original runs on broadway. This isn’t even a huge point although I do enjoy the musical theater and go to four or five broadway shows a year.
With the food, that actually is a huge deal. I’m telling you, it’s just not even close. I live above a moroccan restaurant, and it’s great. Across the street is authentic Roman italian, best pizza I’ve had. There’s Georgian (you ever have khachapuri??) and Ukranian within a couple blocks. You can have your pick of top steakhouses and world class dining. I mean, there are 72 michelin star resturants in NYC, it’s just awesome and really improves quality of life.
Also, I’ll just mention that it’s really refreshing to live in a place where no single industry dominates so you get a real variety of perspectives and experiences with the people you meet, and New York is the only truly international city in the US which is very noticable and appreciated day to day.
All of this is exactly the stuff people who’ve never lived here say because they visited a couple times in the summer heat and roasted in midtown and the financial district for three days, packed up and went home. It’s fine, you can have your opinion, but it’s very incomplete and in many ways incorrect.
Just to address what you wrote – the “living in a closet” trope is a bit overblown. By no means are apartments here big, but you can get yourself plenty of space. I have my own 500sqft 1br in a great neighborhood, and it’s plenty big for me. The soda thing isn’t actually in effect so idk what else to tell you on that, you can get the super gulps at 7/11. There aren’t more rodent problems here than anywhere else I’ve lived (Seattle, Minneapolis, Ann Arbor).
Now to the positive, the cultural and entertainment offerings here are unmatched anywhere else in the US, period. It’s not even arguable. I can get great authentic cuisine from anywhere in the world within a 10 minute walk from my apartment. The Met and the MoMA are a 20 minute trip away on the subway. Broadway shows are, ya know, on Broadway. Every one of your favorite artists come to NYC on every tour and many stay for multiple nights, and they’ll play at venues you can just walk to from your place. Social life is outstanding, there are endless amounts of great bars, obviously active dating scene, huge fitness scene, and you can take the metro north to hiking and wilderness within an hour from Grand Central. The weather is also phenomenal save hot summers, which is fine because you can just hit long island most weekends for awesome beaches. Fall lasts four months and winters are very mild.
So yeah, I’ll die on this hill. NYC is BY FAR the best place I’ve lived and after three years I can’t imagine leaving for a long time.
Oh look, another person who spent 12 hours in Midtown and Bed Stuy and then left thinks they know what New York is like.
Essentially nothing you wrote in this article is in any way reflective of the actual experience of living here, which (for someone who wants an urban environment) is unmatched anywhere else in the country.
I started January last year and by June I was down to around 180. Exercise is a bigger component for me now while I’m not trying to lose weight, but the weight loss was definitely diet driven. I was counting calories on myfitnesspal and all that. It started because signed up for a half marathon kind of on a whim and initially started losing weight to get ready for that, but I was only running like three days a week so I had to definitely be mindful about what I was eating.
Turns out I actually got pretty good at the distance running and now am running 6ish times a week to train for my second full marathon. There are plenty of days where I’ll burn 3500 calories or more so obviously eating more than normal is totally necessary, but I’m not gaining weight. You just have to be smart about it, have goals, and track your progress to keep yourself accountable.
As someone who’s lost over 60 lbs and kept it off, I just don’t get why you’d try a short term diet like that. It’s obviously unsustainable so even if you lose weight up front once you stop eating 600 cals a day twice a week you’ll put it back on within a month, guaranteed. Also, the chances of anyone actually limiting him or herself to just 600 calories on any day is low. People’s personal estimates on how many calories or servings they’re eating are very inaccurate.
To lose weight, you need to eat fewer calories than you are burning, that’s just science. So why not just try to do that consistently most or every day instead of having two days where you hate yourself and then five where you eat like shit? It’ll actually be sustainable and you will adapt quickly to your new diet.
I’m 6ft0, went from pushing 240 to maintaining about 175. It’s really not that hard if you take a long term view on it and just generally make healthy choices and exercise.
Hey Duda, sorry you guys couldn’t beat us either in East Lansing or in NYC this year when you had the chance. At at least we beat our “fucking 11-seed” that is a far better team than Syracuse. You can only play the teams in front of you, and we beat them all. Go Blue.
Also, your girlfriend is an *alumna of the University of Michigan, not an alumnus (unless she’s a guy, which wouldn’t surprise me).
Gonna get downvoted for being a hardo here but whatever, maybe some will find this interesting…
5k’s are definitely a thing that people train for very hard if they’re trying to run fast. It can be a brutal race because (if you’re doing it to truly minimize your time) you’re running above your lactate threshold where lactate begins to accumulate in the blood at a faster rate than it can be removed. For a Half Marathon or longer, you’re running at or below that threshold and it can feel much easier even though it’s a longer distance. I’m also just generally geared towards marathon training versus short races, so running at 5k pace for the full 3.1 miles is just excruciating (though feels awesome when you’re done).
For reference, I recently ran a 5k in 17:35 (5:40/mile average pace) and a half marathon in 1:19:15 (6:03/mile average pace) and the 5k was way, way more painful.
I grew up in Minneapolis and now live on the east coast. That shit back home is SHIT. I refuse to subject myself to that annually ever again. Growing up it was just “this is what winter is like”. But now I see how the rational among us live, dipping into the 20s for just a few weeks a year and having relatively civil seasons. It’s much better this way.
Let me tell you from experience. When your team loses to a dirty Louisville team on a bs block call late in the fourth quarter and you’re in Atlanta for the game, you drink nothing and immediately start the 12 hour drive home when you can round everyone up at 2am.
You can rent a car or take the train. Went up to Vermont over Presidents’ Day weekend and splitting the rental cost isn’t bad. Trains to DC or Boston are easy. Within NYC it’s really much easier to not have one.
Haven’t regularly driven a car since high school, it’s great. No expense, nothing to keep track of, and when everything’s within a walk or quick subway it’s easily the way to go.
Been living alone for over a year and a half now, such a big lifestyle upgrade. My place is in my ideal location and you definitely want to be walking distance to everything, make that a top priority. I gave up some space for the privlidge (~500sqft 1br) but it’s plenty for me, especially in the context of NYC apartments.
I lead a healthy lifestyle. Eat well, not an alocoholic, distance running is a big hobby, etc. Diet Coke is the one thing you will not take from me. I love that shit, try to keep it to one a day but whatever man, gotta live.
I really don’t get it…she decided she was gonna be fake sick to take a lazy day, fine. People do that. But then when her temperature continued near her fake sick level a few weeks later, she suddenly needed a full body evaluation to cure what must be a life-threatening illness? Why?
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Not ironically? It’s exactly what you’d expect, because every single broadway show does their original runs on broadway. This isn’t even a huge point although I do enjoy the musical theater and go to four or five broadway shows a year.
With the food, that actually is a huge deal. I’m telling you, it’s just not even close. I live above a moroccan restaurant, and it’s great. Across the street is authentic Roman italian, best pizza I’ve had. There’s Georgian (you ever have khachapuri??) and Ukranian within a couple blocks. You can have your pick of top steakhouses and world class dining. I mean, there are 72 michelin star resturants in NYC, it’s just awesome and really improves quality of life.
Also, I’ll just mention that it’s really refreshing to live in a place where no single industry dominates so you get a real variety of perspectives and experiences with the people you meet, and New York is the only truly international city in the US which is very noticable and appreciated day to day.
All of this is exactly the stuff people who’ve never lived here say because they visited a couple times in the summer heat and roasted in midtown and the financial district for three days, packed up and went home. It’s fine, you can have your opinion, but it’s very incomplete and in many ways incorrect.
Just to address what you wrote – the “living in a closet” trope is a bit overblown. By no means are apartments here big, but you can get yourself plenty of space. I have my own 500sqft 1br in a great neighborhood, and it’s plenty big for me. The soda thing isn’t actually in effect so idk what else to tell you on that, you can get the super gulps at 7/11. There aren’t more rodent problems here than anywhere else I’ve lived (Seattle, Minneapolis, Ann Arbor).
Now to the positive, the cultural and entertainment offerings here are unmatched anywhere else in the US, period. It’s not even arguable. I can get great authentic cuisine from anywhere in the world within a 10 minute walk from my apartment. The Met and the MoMA are a 20 minute trip away on the subway. Broadway shows are, ya know, on Broadway. Every one of your favorite artists come to NYC on every tour and many stay for multiple nights, and they’ll play at venues you can just walk to from your place. Social life is outstanding, there are endless amounts of great bars, obviously active dating scene, huge fitness scene, and you can take the metro north to hiking and wilderness within an hour from Grand Central. The weather is also phenomenal save hot summers, which is fine because you can just hit long island most weekends for awesome beaches. Fall lasts four months and winters are very mild.
So yeah, I’ll die on this hill. NYC is BY FAR the best place I’ve lived and after three years I can’t imagine leaving for a long time.
Oh look, another person who spent 12 hours in Midtown and Bed Stuy and then left thinks they know what New York is like.
Essentially nothing you wrote in this article is in any way reflective of the actual experience of living here, which (for someone who wants an urban environment) is unmatched anywhere else in the country.
Domino’s isn’t pizza, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Sometimes I’m in the mood for pizza, and once in a while I’m in the mood for Domino’s.
I started January last year and by June I was down to around 180. Exercise is a bigger component for me now while I’m not trying to lose weight, but the weight loss was definitely diet driven. I was counting calories on myfitnesspal and all that. It started because signed up for a half marathon kind of on a whim and initially started losing weight to get ready for that, but I was only running like three days a week so I had to definitely be mindful about what I was eating.
Turns out I actually got pretty good at the distance running and now am running 6ish times a week to train for my second full marathon. There are plenty of days where I’ll burn 3500 calories or more so obviously eating more than normal is totally necessary, but I’m not gaining weight. You just have to be smart about it, have goals, and track your progress to keep yourself accountable.
As someone who’s lost over 60 lbs and kept it off, I just don’t get why you’d try a short term diet like that. It’s obviously unsustainable so even if you lose weight up front once you stop eating 600 cals a day twice a week you’ll put it back on within a month, guaranteed. Also, the chances of anyone actually limiting him or herself to just 600 calories on any day is low. People’s personal estimates on how many calories or servings they’re eating are very inaccurate.
To lose weight, you need to eat fewer calories than you are burning, that’s just science. So why not just try to do that consistently most or every day instead of having two days where you hate yourself and then five where you eat like shit? It’ll actually be sustainable and you will adapt quickly to your new diet.
I’m 6ft0, went from pushing 240 to maintaining about 175. It’s really not that hard if you take a long term view on it and just generally make healthy choices and exercise.
Hey Duda, sorry you guys couldn’t beat us either in East Lansing or in NYC this year when you had the chance. At at least we beat our “fucking 11-seed” that is a far better team than Syracuse. You can only play the teams in front of you, and we beat them all. Go Blue.
Also, your girlfriend is an *alumna of the University of Michigan, not an alumnus (unless she’s a guy, which wouldn’t surprise me).
Almost as big of a trainwreck as the football scene in Love Simon
Gonna get downvoted for being a hardo here but whatever, maybe some will find this interesting…
5k’s are definitely a thing that people train for very hard if they’re trying to run fast. It can be a brutal race because (if you’re doing it to truly minimize your time) you’re running above your lactate threshold where lactate begins to accumulate in the blood at a faster rate than it can be removed. For a Half Marathon or longer, you’re running at or below that threshold and it can feel much easier even though it’s a longer distance. I’m also just generally geared towards marathon training versus short races, so running at 5k pace for the full 3.1 miles is just excruciating (though feels awesome when you’re done).
For reference, I recently ran a 5k in 17:35 (5:40/mile average pace) and a half marathon in 1:19:15 (6:03/mile average pace) and the 5k was way, way more painful.
I grew up in Minneapolis and now live on the east coast. That shit back home is SHIT. I refuse to subject myself to that annually ever again. Growing up it was just “this is what winter is like”. But now I see how the rational among us live, dipping into the 20s for just a few weeks a year and having relatively civil seasons. It’s much better this way.
NYC Half? How’d you do?
Oh thought this said Final Four. Whoops. Point remains.
Let me tell you from experience. When your team loses to a dirty Louisville team on a bs block call late in the fourth quarter and you’re in Atlanta for the game, you drink nothing and immediately start the 12 hour drive home when you can round everyone up at 2am.
BUT WAS THIS A DATE???
Okay Dwight
You can rent a car or take the train. Went up to Vermont over Presidents’ Day weekend and splitting the rental cost isn’t bad. Trains to DC or Boston are easy. Within NYC it’s really much easier to not have one.
Haven’t regularly driven a car since high school, it’s great. No expense, nothing to keep track of, and when everything’s within a walk or quick subway it’s easily the way to go.
Been living alone for over a year and a half now, such a big lifestyle upgrade. My place is in my ideal location and you definitely want to be walking distance to everything, make that a top priority. I gave up some space for the privlidge (~500sqft 1br) but it’s plenty for me, especially in the context of NYC apartments.
I lead a healthy lifestyle. Eat well, not an alocoholic, distance running is a big hobby, etc. Diet Coke is the one thing you will not take from me. I love that shit, try to keep it to one a day but whatever man, gotta live.
I really don’t get it…she decided she was gonna be fake sick to take a lazy day, fine. People do that. But then when her temperature continued near her fake sick level a few weeks later, she suddenly needed a full body evaluation to cure what must be a life-threatening illness? Why?