1. I like all kinds of good food
2. I like to dress nicely and make an effort to be put together when I go outside the house
3. I like dogs
4. I like not needing a car
but mostly
5. I like to walk really, really fast. I do not like dawdlers and slowpokes. If you are shuffling slowly along the path, admiring your loafers or the sky or whatever, I will fucking draft you, then I will pass you. I am not in a “hurry” per se, I just do NOT like to walk slowly. Ever.
When I visited Manhattan several years ago, I swear one of my most favorite things of all was to merge into sidewalk traffic and feel like FINALLY the rest of the world was going at my pace. Walking there was like a dream.
That said, there are many other reasons I could not live in New York, but anyway.
Also, regarding NYC:
1. I like restaurants open at 3am, and not just diners.
2. I like seeing people of various ethnic and national backgrounds.
3. Underground music bands.
But definitely the walking fast bit.
Oh totally all that stuff too. Though Seattle does have a pretty good music scene. Not that I go to shows as much as I once did.
Yeah, definitely coastal states!
how you could not live in NYC
you could no longer afford food or nice clothes or the dog