i'll take the blueberry pancakes and a regular coffee please
Just returned from New York.
Well, not just, I crashed on my parent's camp bed at 9am cos we got the red-eye out of Newark. And christ did we go fast! Take off to landing was under 6 hours!!!We were literally blown across the Atlantic, which is an appropriate metaphor as about 45 mins in we went through some of the worst turbulence I've ever felt in my life. Luckily no food was being served then but it really did feel like we were riding some demented rollercoaster with the plane being tossed every whichway all at once.
I loved it.
But New York.
New York - to me anyway - just IS.
There's not a lot you can say about the city with enough hyperbole strung after it, songs sung about it and history attached to it that hasn't been said already.
It's an insomniac city, and I can see why people go on about New York burnout. Even on the weekends, when things supposedly get a little quieter, you still get information and sensory overload sometimes.
Not that this is a bad thing if you want to visit and be a tourist but if you're grinding out a 9to5 then it can exhaust you at staggering speed.
Every seen Prince of Tides? Should do, it's a good film, but as Nick Nolte's character says you do get "The New York Willies" pretty quickly. Which is similar to the London Willies in the sense that you feel like you "ought" to be doing something with your free time while you're there. That if you don't then you're wasting this big opportunity.
New York yawns on that.
And then there's the rent. I saw an advert on the subway for Brooklyn apartments. 2 bedroom was $3,100. I guess they mean a month, and even with a 50% exchange rate that's still £1,550 a month.
HUH??????
Y'know when the guys said 2 years ago that New York's BBQ were being gentrified I kinda shrugged and went 'Yeah, right'.
I don't do that anymore.
Gage, the guy who tattooed me in Chelsea, said he was living in a Brooklyn basement flat, one room for $800 pcm. This could be why he's moving to Florida, same price gets you a 3 bed apartment with a pool. But could you live in the Sunshine state?
I know I couldn't.
I'd just like to live in an apartment that doesn't leak, freeze or force me to wear kevlar on the way to work. And did i mention the food thing? eating would be nice too.
Gage was saying that if you get the thing right then you rarely have to go into the city (i.e Manhattan) unless you're meeting someone.
Ach! What do I know right now? I'm just lucky enough to have a job...
But we have a right to dream don't we?
Well, not just, I crashed on my parent's camp bed at 9am cos we got the red-eye out of Newark. And christ did we go fast! Take off to landing was under 6 hours!!!We were literally blown across the Atlantic, which is an appropriate metaphor as about 45 mins in we went through some of the worst turbulence I've ever felt in my life. Luckily no food was being served then but it really did feel like we were riding some demented rollercoaster with the plane being tossed every whichway all at once.
I loved it.
But New York.
New York - to me anyway - just IS.
There's not a lot you can say about the city with enough hyperbole strung after it, songs sung about it and history attached to it that hasn't been said already.
It's an insomniac city, and I can see why people go on about New York burnout. Even on the weekends, when things supposedly get a little quieter, you still get information and sensory overload sometimes.
Not that this is a bad thing if you want to visit and be a tourist but if you're grinding out a 9to5 then it can exhaust you at staggering speed.
Every seen Prince of Tides? Should do, it's a good film, but as Nick Nolte's character says you do get "The New York Willies" pretty quickly. Which is similar to the London Willies in the sense that you feel like you "ought" to be doing something with your free time while you're there. That if you don't then you're wasting this big opportunity.
New York yawns on that.
And then there's the rent. I saw an advert on the subway for Brooklyn apartments. 2 bedroom was $3,100. I guess they mean a month, and even with a 50% exchange rate that's still £1,550 a month.
HUH??????
Y'know when the guys said 2 years ago that New York's BBQ were being gentrified I kinda shrugged and went 'Yeah, right'.
I don't do that anymore.
Gage, the guy who tattooed me in Chelsea, said he was living in a Brooklyn basement flat, one room for $800 pcm. This could be why he's moving to Florida, same price gets you a 3 bed apartment with a pool. But could you live in the Sunshine state?
I know I couldn't.
I'd just like to live in an apartment that doesn't leak, freeze or force me to wear kevlar on the way to work. And did i mention the food thing? eating would be nice too.
Gage was saying that if you get the thing right then you rarely have to go into the city (i.e Manhattan) unless you're meeting someone.
Ach! What do I know right now? I'm just lucky enough to have a job...
But we have a right to dream don't we?