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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t deal well with crowds or too much noise, so no. Even the DC area is more crowded that I really prefer.[/quote]

I live next to a park in NYC. I am also noise sensitive and hate crowds. I love my neighborhood and NYC. That's the advantage of a huge city - you can live many different ways. You can find a way that suits your needs. You can go out to dinners, parties and concerts every night, or never. You can send your kids to  a neighborhood public school, or to a gifted & talented charter school, or to a traditional/progressive/co-ed/single sex/uptown/downtown/Brooklyn private school. There are many, many choices for a lifestyle in a city unlike in the suburbs, where life is more or less the same for everyone. [/quote]

+1.[b]  My NYC neighborhood is quiet and leafy [/b]and adjacent to a huge park and innumerable playgrounds.  I was actually thinking of this thread when I was walking home from the [b]subway [/b]yesterday to pick up my daughter at her elementary school, wishing I could share photos of the glorious fall day in the neighborhood, with beautiful brownstones, kids laughing, families at the corner restaurant, and her quaint little school 4 blocks from home.  It just doesn't align whatsoever with how people are describing their reasons for not wanting to raise a family in NYC.  Still, I get the aversion - some people want the convenience of a big backyard or a finished basement or whatever, or they just don't like density, or don't like walking, want to be 30 minutes from skiing, or any number of things.   No doubt my neighborhood is noisier and more crowded than most suburbs.  But it's hardly the skyscraper filled, trash and rat laden, money fueled metropolis described over the past 10 pages.  I work for the city government, most families in my neighborhood are civil servants, creatives, tech, journalism, media, etc.  I don't have a single friend in finance, or if I'm friendly with a parent who is in finance, I don't know it.  Because we don't talk about work all the time so I don't really know what many people do.[/quote]

Sorry but you’re delusional.  There isn’t a single neighborhood in NYC that is quiet and leafy.  Perhaps some parts of Staten Island but you don’t live there since you said the subway.  Speaking of the subway, it’s disgusting.  The stations aren’t clean and neither is your neighborhood.  NYC is the only city I’m aware of where you throw your trash into trashcans and bags on the street.  There is just no way that your neighborhood is truly clean and quiet.  I have been all over Brooklyn and queens and never seen anything like that.  Perhaps if you move from third avenue you might think your neighborhood is clean and quiet, but not if you’ve ever been to a clean and quiet town or neighborhood.  [/quote]

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