New Rule 013 - (Sh)City Living

New Rule: Enough with the "New York City is the best place in the world to live" blog posts. You've seen them before, they rattle off a list of a million things wrong with living in NYC, then wrap it all up with "But then you see (insert random sight), and wouldn't change it for the world..." or "But then you realize that (insert random fact) and realize it's all worth it..." Listen, I've worked in the city my entire career (7 years), and I can vouch for all the negatives that these posts list: it smells like garbage every day (or subway, or homeless people; three very distinct smells), you pay $2,500 a month to live in a window-less, closet-less refrigerator box, you don't have a car (or a yard), aren't close to a beach, and above all that, the people are beyond rude and proud of it. It sucks in the summer when it's too hot, it sucks in the winter when there's snow, and I haven't even mentioned the psychopaths OR crime rate. Say what you want about New Jersey, but I'll take the nice area near the beach where there are things like grass, trees, and the ocean any day. You can't make a pros and cons list, have the cons outweigh the one pro 23 to 1, then tell me that one pro is worth all the cons; that's not how it works.