Put krokodil in the mousetrap.

yeah fuck that town

nothing like the huge swarms of rats in the subways or on the streets near NYU

memories to last a lifetime

and don't even get me started on the rodents

i think it comes from the attention and superficial "prestige" that non-New Yorkers associate NYC with. Yes, Manhattan and the upper east/west sides are filled with wealthy bankers and lawyers and hedge fund MDs but that isn't the REAL nyc.

honestly I was in Miami once - and this waitress asked me where I was from and I said "New York City" and her eyes lit up and was like "oh! wow so you must be very rich then! I can't imagine possibly ever living there - just don't have that kind of money!"

retarded.

Yeah cause Philly or Boston isn't filled with piss and homeless people. NYC is expensive but worth it in many regards. Put a mouse trap out and go get laid. Every city is a shit hole.

Just came from spending four years in Boston. Boston is about 10x cleaner than NYC and doesn't smell all the time. Please don't compare Boston to Philly...not really close at all.

Two things I don't like about Boston:
1) The subway sucks (but you can usually just walk to where you need to be)
2) The homeless people, while fewer per capita than NYC, are more aggressive

i know this wasn't meant to be funny at all but ...LOL.

Philly is a shithole, but boston is pretty nice, especially if you're a student. MUCH cleaner than NYC. Of course, Chicago beats all of them.

Chicago is just as much of a ghetto and shithole as every other city. You guys are fucking nuts. Boston is small as shit.

Jesus, some people can't handle living in a city at all. Sucks that you chose finance.

Well I agree that homeless people are an issue. The police should be tougher on them and push them to the outer fringes. No reason that homeless people should be in the middle of the city ruining things. I mean c'mon, piss yourself on the bus. Put that fucker in jail and in hard labor.

in a country where you can get away with killing your baby daughter and *almost* land a $1 Million book deal off of it...i think homeless people should get PAID by tax payers for committing pissing crimes and other public acts of indecency.

San Francisco is a gross city too

Grew up outside NYC, live in London now. NYC is easily the most overrated city I have ever been to. At street level most of Manhattan seriously lacks character, the whole of Midtown is a dump full of chain restaurants and offices, and I HATE the fact that you are no more than a 3 min walk from a road that resembles a bloody highway. In London I want to walk around neighborhoods and explore the city, in NYC I just don't find myself that drawn into many of the areas. Some of downtown is great, but I think I only think that because they are the neighborhoods that closest resemble London.

There is so much fucking wrong with this. +1 ANT, you outdid yourself that time.

Come to the South.

I live in Berlin and was thinking of moving to New York. I think this convinces me enough to not move to NYC. Anyone else has idea how would be Tokyo in comparison to NY cos I am going there soon for 5 months. I hope I will have good experience and won't have to smell dog piss on streets.

Scary but I guess we need more opinions before I decide to change my plans to go to Tokyo. I think as of now I will have to go to Tokyo because going to NY is not available anymore.

There's nothing wrong with you if you aren't in love with New York City. It isn't for everybody; you don't have to like it. I lived there for four years during school and by the time graduation rolled around I just couldn't stand it anymore. The biggest reason is that I like being able to have peace, solitude and relaxation once in a while, and you can't get it when you're sharing a concrete island with 1.2 million other people.

Also, I'd rather not live like a rat in a shoebox.

This article, while tongue in cheek, pretty much seals the deal for me:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/84-million-new-yorkers-suddenly-realize...

Yes, NYC is disgusting. But it toughens you up and you can live anywhere after that.

That being said, I had a major mouse problem over the Fall. I literally caught 7 of those MFers in one day.

The only thing that worked? Glue traps. Inhumane? Yes. Gross? Yes. But NYC mice are not your ordinary mice. They are clever and eat the food right out of a snap trap and go along their merry way and laugh at you. It sounds terrible, but the most humane thing to do is drown them afterwards. I used a garbage can full of water. It is disgusting but you will eventually get rid of them. For those people who say it is cruel: mice (or in this case, most likely baby rats) spread disease.

So. Glue traps along the wall. Fill every hole and crevice with an expandable spray foam/steel wool combo. I mean EVERY HOLE that is bigger than your pinky nail. Those f-ers can flatten their rib cage and squeeze thru the smallest spots. The main places they were getting in for me were 1) behind the fridge (nice and warm and my dumb landlord left a frigging HOLE there) and 2) the radiators. You can ask your super to do this because technically the landlord is supposed to keep the place vermin free and you can stop paying rent if they don't.

And almost every place in NYC has them, regardless of how much you pay. A friend pays 4K and they had them. Maybe some of the newer buildings don't (yet). But they will. Ohhh... they will. Just think. All those fancy old pre-war buildings are full of them, and I guarantee they pay more than you. There is some justice in the world...

God Bless.

Interning here this summer, I can relate to this thread. Chi FTW

Bookmarked this, fucking awesome, thank you sir

This post really does remind me of Nathan Lane's psychotic obsession with killing 'the mouse' in the movie Mouse Hunt........

Are west coast cities THAT much nicer???

I definitely think NYC is one of the best cities to begin your business career if you take enough time to meet people and take advantage of all that's around you -- but in terms of quality of life, I'd definitely say it's subpar if your income is not very high

I've lived in Boston, Philly, and NYC. Actually lived in the cities themselves (not the burbs).

Philly is by far the worst. Most homeless, most crime, worst public transport, worst job market.

NYC was the most expensive and had the best job market. Homeless were nothing after Philly.

Boston was the 'nicest' but also the smallest, although if you include Cambridge and Brookline/Allston, with their bars/restaurants/jobs, it's considerably bigger and more of an appropriate comparison to NYC than without them (less skyscraper-y though).

Boston's also expensive as shit. Far closer to NYC than Philly in cost. The subway/T works better than Philly (it's just further reaching) but it's slow, breaks down, and completely underfunded. Way worse than NYC.

Cities, in general, suck if you're looking for a quiet, lower cost, safer lifestyle. If that's what you want, snag a F500 finance job at Merck in suburban NJ.

don't you just love the subways in the summer? when it's 90 degrees outside, it's 100 in every Manhattan subway station. it smells like hot p*ss and garbage. there's no ventilation and it's full of rats. People wipe their sweat with their hands and then hold on to the pole inside the train. FUN! At times i find myself breathing into my shirt or napkin that i prepare before leaving the office because it's that disgusting. as a native new yorker, the filth of the city shouldn't surprise me but it does.

anyways, it's all tourist fault.

NYC is the best city in America, and I'm from Boston