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Unless you happen to ask the large fraction of people who knowingly moved there to make big bucks for some number of years before getting out. They will all tell you it sucks, the government sucks, you suck for not realizing that and that they're masterminding their exit to the suburbs of Phoenix or Miami or whatever. These people make up a sizable minority of the NYC population at any given time.



Well yeah sure, but obviously people who fail at living in New York don't count.


I regret to say: I’ve lived here long enough to believe you genuinely mean it when you say that.


Is there a song called "Cleveland, Cleveland" that says if you can make it in Cleveland you can make it anywhere?


Oh, you mean the half-century old song New York New York by Frank Sinatra? One written for a musical depicting golden days of 1945? Nice one, I love it.


You are correct that 80 years ago New York was also the greatest city in the history of world civilization. Quite a run isn't it?


It surely was in 1945, no doubt about it.




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