
Protip: Conditions required for happiness are not universal.asie:
ex2:meltingnoise: kissdonttell: tweexcore:
“New Yorkers think an interesting life is more important than a happy life. What you really pay for with the exorbitant cost of living and the hard lifestyle is to be surrounded by strong performers, huge ambitions, and constant need for change and innovation. To live in New York City, you have to trade happiness for this. To most New Yorkers, it’s a no-brainer. They would take that trade any day. To most people outside of New York City the trade-off is crazy.”
I could not disagree more that you need to give up happiness to live here. Living here in the environment described above is exactly what makes me happy.
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I do, until I start thinking of my childless life at age seventy-five in NYC. Unless you have family here, I imagine it...
I spent the last two weeks in Michigan. While there, I saw a lot of extended family to who I couldn’t explain the allure...
really, so like, none of the new yorkers i know are actually happy?
Hmmmm! interstretching…
I deride the loaded word choice of “happiness” in this paragraph, but I won’t pretend I haven’t been pondering some...
As I am here for a week or so a month, I’ve been trying to put this into words.
Bull. Aside from...current political worries, which aren’t taking place
ex2:meltingnoise:
i know i belong in nyc b/c i could give two shits about whether this survey or anyone else thinks i’m new yorker enough.
I am not a big fan of “do you belong in NYC?” quizzes, they remind me of the sort of obnoxious articles that appear in...
I don’t really like this. I can appreciate the sentiment but when did living an interesting life and living a happy life...
I could not disagree more that you need to give up happiness to live here. Living here in the environment described...
at the risk of adding on to this: I’ve been in NYC for three weeks and it feels like home already in a way that no place...
yeah, you know what, i was responding only to the happy/interesting dichotomy which, again, i think is bullshit, but i...
Frankly, the original quote sounds like typical parochial New York bullshit to me. I’ve lived in New York; I’ve also...
but i guess it depends on how you define both interesting...happy. my life probably isn’t...
with them as well, I’m happiest when I’m extremely interested. Although I agree...fine...