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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to have a trust fund to have fun in Manhattan? WTF?

If the kid couldn't figure out how to have fun in Manhattan at age 18, even lacking a trust fund, she wouldn't be smart enough to get into Columbia.[/quote]

Of course, I'm exaggerating. Manhattan still has nice museums, libraries and coffee shops.

For parents who have figured out preschool and school, it's a wonderful place to have a small child. The playgrounds and activities for small children.

But the whole downtown scene is gone. The music scene and the comedy scene are pretty much dead. The Lower East Side is nice now, but most of the main part of Greenwich Village, where NYU is, looks as if the Pied Piper came and lured the shopkeepers away. But the landlords are locked into arrangements that keep them from lowering the rents enough to clear the market, so the empty storefronts stay empty or get filled with nail salons.  There's no way for young people to go in and start something interesting.

It's fine, in a lot of ways. It's safe. The coffee is good. But I don't think it's any better for an 18-year-old than, say, Capitol Hill, or Chicago. [/quote]

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