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San Diego has got that trolley line and a pretty damn good public transport system (bus). And you also have the infamous Comic-Con International, the largest convention of popular culture in the world there every year. It’s going on RIGHT now…and I’m not there. tear…oh hell…crying heavily
BUT: Portland has it beat in the public transportation area. You don’t need a car in Portland. The cost of living here is not as crazy as in NYC or SD. Music? Art? Culture? Portlands got it.
No, city in the world that can beat NYC that is if you can afford living here. One of my friends just left NYC and is out in LA California now. And she hates it. She thought she was going to love the warm weather and all that LA has to offer but in then end she miss the stuff that you can do and get in NYC. Wherelse will a Deli or Bodaga be open at 3am only NYC. Truelly a city that doesn’t sleep. And The amount of activites that you can do is amazing where its roller balding in Central Park or catching a broadway show. There’s tons of museumes, shops and so forth.
Like, I said if you can afford the living expense in NYC I highly suggest there.
In Health,
Silas C.
I second Tony’s gym of choice in NYC-Dolphin Fitness. Not as glamorous as other NYC gyms, but gives a big bang for your buck. I workout at Coles sports center, my school’s gym (I attend New York Univ.) downtown. It’s free for NYU students during the school year, and only $40 for the summer; can’t beat that! The free weight room fulfills all your “T” needs.
im sure the women in SD are beautiful but walk around manhattan one day in the summer and you will see more beautiful women than you would believe…i live across the street from Central Park and it is amazing in the summer…plus in nyc you never need a car…although if i told you what a 1-bedroom rents for you might faint
Unfortunately I haven’t been to many gyms. Only 3 since I’ve been out of HS actually. The 24 hour fitness are just like everywhere else, if this board is any indication. I found a nice small gym that also has some boxing clubs. It’s nice, no one tells me to stop lifting… they just kind of stare when I’m doing my rock bottom squats, or oly lifts.
I’ve been doing more research on SD and I’m getting confused. You have to understand that living in fucking Rhode Island all my life has, well, not given me the opportunity to understand the ins and outs of big cities. I’m clueless. The areas that appeal to me (I think) are:
Downtown
Mission Beach
Pacific Beach
Pt. Loma
Can someone give me an idea about the differences in each community? For instance, if I were living in Pt. Loma how far away is downtown? What community has the most young people? Nightlife? Stuff like that.
CMC, I spent a week in SD earlier this summer and if my memory doesn’t betray me then all of those places are about 10-15 minutes from downtown (driving).
Whatever you do, don’t go apartment hunting in La Jolla. Probably the most expensive suburb (if you wanna call it that) of San Diego there is.
As far as nightlife, I went with my grandmother and 12-year old cousin. So somebody else will have to answer that for you.
Downtown= Gaslamp quarter, thickly cultural and full of skyscrapers/trendy places.
Mission Beach= Cool beach community north of downtown, OK place to hang, some crime, very touristy.
Pacific Beach= AKA “PB” younger crowd, culturally diverse to an extent, touristy, kick ass night-time scene, decent tatoo parlours (if you haven’t gotten yours already), North of Mission Beach.
Pt. Loma= Mix of retirement age/ oldr rich people and young, succesful go-getters. Not much of a night life, quiet, high rent, not much crime, streets are initially confusing due to the geography, North of PB.
Lajolla and OB (ocean beach) are north of all the aforementioned. North of those two communities are Solana Beach, Del Mar, Encinitas, Lacosta, Carlsbad, the Oceanside to round off the top of the county. (I may have mixed up a couple of those communities, they all kind of flow into each other).
One word on all of those listed… EXPENSIVE. Beach properties as well as rentals don’t come cheap.
Hope that helped.
Brad
NYC-
Downtown- Finicial District (most jobs are found here) and cost of living is a little cheaper because they are trying to get people to move back in. Soho, shops and little store to browse around, Little Itly not far if that a couple blocks from soho, You also have Chinatown right there to plenty of nightlife in soho.
Mid-town-
More toursitie with shops like Disney, Macy’s MSG is in mid-town, so are all the broadway shows are located in mid-town. Find the right apt and you get a spectacular view.
Upper east side-
More younger generation X live here because of access of no stop nightlife.
Upper West Side-
More of an older crowd or what I call old money that live here more museams, art gallery ect in this section.
My suggestion is go vist both place before you move. You may regrat it if you don’t.
CMC, I lived in New York (manhattan)for a year and a half and moved to SD a year ago. NYC has better public transportation but SD’s ain’t bad with the trolley and buses (although the trolleys don’t go to the beach towns). I lived in PB for about 9 months and now live downtown. I pay $695 for a studio, which although expensive is cheaper than NYC. Housing in the beach towns is more expensive and the disadvantage of living in PB, MB, or OB is you waste time trying to get onto the freeway because there are too few roads out. The weather in SD is hard to beat (maybe Hawaii), the ladies do look good, but SD is also known as Man Diego b/c supposedly we have more men than women here I guess because of the military presence…
peternf do u miss NYC?
the only thing I miss about NYC is not driving. I definitely don’t miss the weather, the ridiculous cost of housing, the crowdedness. Being from RI though you’d be much closer to home living in NYC than in SD if that’s a consideration. Also, I have lost friends after moving out here due to the geographical distance; talking on the phone is not the same as hanging out. But SD is a very happening place with plenty of things to do so it’s not hard to meet people…