Originally Posted by Niburu

Which part? It's kinda big and very diverse.
I grew up out on eastern Long Island so I was going in all the time. Of course I was going to Manhattan and taking the train in.
It was always a fun place to visit but I could never imagine living there.
I feel the same way about NoVa and DC.

Originally Posted by Douglas Adams

one of the extraordinary things about life, is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living. anywhere it can get some kind of grip... Life will always find a way of hanging on in somewhere. It will even live in New York, though it's hard to know why. In the wintertime, the temp falls well below the legal minimum, or rather it would do if anyone had the common sense to set a legal minimum. The last time anybody made a list of the top 100 attributes of new yorkers, common sense snuck in at 79. In the summer it's too damn hot. ... Spring is over rated, a lot of the inhabitants of new york will honk on mightily about the pleasures of spring, but if they actually knew the first thing about the pleasures of spring, they would know at least 5983 better places to spend it than new york, and thats just on the east coast.