It’s a place where you can buy gatorade, toilet paper, AND eggs.”

So... any gas station in the USA?

From a non American, this seems to be how all Americans talk about their local places lol

Couldn’t imagine living anywhere other than New York!

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Everything in the store being dusty and expired is just culture, sweaty

bodegas are hardly special. like, pretty much every 3rd or 4th street in London, even in the suburbs, has those too. in fact we have loads of specialist ones for different diasporas foods. as do like most British towns and cities, at least regular ones though maybe not afro or South Asian , and I would imagine is true for a lot of other places

What.... What do they think a corner store is?

As someone who lives in New York, let me just say Greatest city in the world only in NYC pizza pie go Mets

last time I was in NYC I met a guy who was slackjawed that other cities in America also have Chinatowns

The only cool bodegas are the ones in Cuba that give people free rations of food

I've had New Yorkers tell me they know my own culture better than I do because they lived in the Bronx. This one woman insisted I walk on the outside of a sidewalk because Latin men would hit on her. I had no idea what she was talking about because only old men do that where I live. But she insisted it was something we all did.

All the new yorkers moved down here during the pandemic and as a result rent has gone up like $400-$500 in the last 2 years :deeper-sadness:

I've been to several cities of global importance and size. Moreover, I've spoke to people from dozens of countries asking them to compare NYC to the principle city of their country.

Among them all and from my observation there is agreement: NYC is both the dirtiest major city globally and has the most outdated mass transit system.

If I have to read one more article about how some people in New York are really cool for doing ordinary culture stuff (like starting a magazine or writing a book) while in New York, I'm going to scream

I think a lot of the more obnoxious aspects of that discourse comes from transplants who are either trying really hard to be seen as a real and authentic NYer, or grew up in a suburb of a city whose downtown they barely visited, and now see common features of walkable urban cores as unique to New York.