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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of people seem to get their ideas of nyc from movies and TV.

We live in NYC, but in a quiet corner with a lot of international neighbors and several nearby parks. Middle or upper middle class. Kids are in public school, which they love and is much more rigorous than their DC area school. The kids actually seem more innocent than in DC - our 5th grader still pretend plays with her friends in the garden area of our apartment building. They have a whole gnome village hidden in the plants. They spend hours there, and the doormen keep their secret.

The adults in NYC are not obsessed with status or what colleges they went to, unlike when we were in DC. I know what college every single person I know in DC went to, but I have no idea where our friends in nyc went to college (although a lot are international so it would be meaningless to me anyway). People do talk incessantly about real estate though. That gets old.

Also, people here keep saying at NYC is dysfunctional. When comparing NYC to DC, this is not our experience at all. DC was pretty dysfunctional, too, and not as safe as our neighborhood in NYC.[/quote]
This has to be the biggest joke ever.[/quote]

Nope. I live in NYC and it truly can be like this. If you’ve never lived here, you just don’t know. Visiting Times Square several times doesn’t make you familiar with NYC.[/quote]

It sounds like anywhere though.  I used to live in an UMC neighborhood in a rural area with a lot of doctors and engineers here on J-1 visas.  The kids played in the creek. We had to do a little fanangling with school and had kind of a mix of public school and homeschool co-op.  
Why deal with all of the hassle and expense of NYC to have a midwestern life?  [/quote]

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