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[quote=Anonymous]Maybe.

I grew up in NYC in the 80s and I got up to so much trouble it's insane. My parents were pretty checked out, as were all my friends parents TBH, but we were going to clubs and bars in high school, getting high in the meadow after school, having sex at the apts of friends whose parents were out of town . . . it's just really hard to keep an eye on teens.

Now maybe teens these days are less naughty? My teens are -- but they live in the burbs. My kids seem so wholesome compared to the way me and my friends were. They play sports, go camping, etc. I didn't even learn to drive until I went to college! (This is not unusual for NYC kids BTW). Did I have a blast? Yes! But would I want my kids to experience what I did. Hell no.

Also, NYC is really different now. There is an insane focus on money in Manhattan. Not sure what it would look like in Brooklyn, seems annoyingly hipster-ish to me, all these posers from suburbs around the country who "escaped" and now they think they are so cool for living in Brooklyn. Doesn't feel like "real" NYers to me, so what's the point?[/quote]

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