I'm a country boy born and bred. Live on a 150 acre farm because I don't play well with others. My youngest daughter has been wanting to go to NYC for years, always told her"no". My health is deteriorating so I agreed to a 3 day trip.
Took a train from Richmond Virginia to NYC. First train ride for me except for amusement parks.
We had a great time and I realized that I am guilty of being too closed minded.
Make no mistake about it, I would never want to live there but we all made memories that will last forever.
The memorial waterfall where the twin towers used to stand was very humbling to say the least.
Saint Patrick's chapel was a sight to behold that no pictures could do justice.

I guess I learned to not be so closed minded and wherever you go if you treat people with respect you get the same in return.
Great trip, pleasantly surprised.

Nice place to visit, not to live. Glad you had a wonderful time!

Everybody needs to go for a drive there about 7:30 a.m. with a 53 foot trailer thats 8 1/2 feet wide

I am glad you enjoyed it.

My dad said he ran a load down to the docks in NYC once. Only once.

The Verrazano bridge from Jersey into Brooklyn has lanes so narrow that in a semi you literally have a steer tire on each lane divider. Bumper to bumper traffic is more common than not. When you get into Brooklyn thats when stuff gets gets really tight.

I never been as a tourist. Get edgy just thinking about going.

Last time i went was to movie set out on Long Island. That was not to bad. I went real early. Left on the G.W. bridge about 10 A.M. Most of the traffic was still coming in. Went right on across.

I live about an hour - hour and a half north of the city but work down in the city and north Jersey all the time and absolutely hate it. I guess if you never grew up by it, I could see the fascination, but between the horrible driving, the traffic, the scum bags, the crack heads, the smell of pee and garbage, the homeless standing in the middle of traffic pan handling, the prices for anything, it’s just enough to drive you insane. Not to mention as an electrician for att and Verizon wireless, and having to go into all these disgusting basements, it’s a wonder why anyone would want to visit that place. Not to mention two weeks ago I was trying to get access to a building for an att site audit, and got caught in the middle of police guns drawn and swarmed around me to arrest a guy who stabbed a chase bank security guard in the neck. I constantly walk around with my knife opened in my pocket, as I am sometimes working in places where I’m the only white person for as far as the eye can see and I’m not going to be another statistic. I, my friend, hate that place !

Been to the Newark and JFK airports on the Uncle Sam plan. That's as close as I ever want to get.

Tcap I would quit my job if I were you! Or conceal carry and tell
Att to pound sand if you need to use it.

I’m not into the big cities or the like so would probably never go there
But It’s good to hear stepping out of your comfort zone worked out for
You.

Glad you had a good trip..

It’s so stupid in New York City you can’t carry inside the city. Dumbest thing ever, once you cross into the city you’re now committing a felony for unlawful possession. Even if I did carry and actually had to use that I’d be arrested and with a hard dem/liberal state I’d never see my family again. Yet the thugs that shoot kids and sell drugs get out the next day. Even having a blade is a crime down in the city but I’m able to say it’s for my job purposes. Nothing like stripping legal gun owners of their protection and putting them in a city where the illegal firearms are everywhere, with people who don’t care about anything but “being a hustler”. It’s about time that place burns to the ground

Born and raised in NYC, best view I ever had was the last time seeing it in my rear view mirror....'91.

I'm in the same boat. I generally avoid cities as much as possible. My daughter is a world traveler and is routinely stays in DC between assignments. She has talked this old country bumpkin into visiting several times. The sights and sounds are truly fantastic. All the national museums, the zoo, the botanical gardens, the Maine Ave. Fish Market, Chinatown and on and on. I even talked her into taking me to a roller derby once in a seedy area of town for some low-brow entertainment.

And the people-watching is amazing.

I've been to some other big cities here and abroad but DC has been the most interesting so far.

Great places to visit, but like you said, I'd never want to live there.

The public transportation systems in big cities baffles me. I can find my way by moonlight to any particular spot in the woods easily but I'm lost in the city. Thank goodness she understands it. Watching her punching in info and selecting subway destinations with practiced ease amazes me.

That's why you have to hit it at 5am---particularly the GW bridge.

I was born and raised in Alabama, prefer the country over big cities. I’ve traveled most of our country and avoided the larger cities. I went to New York last year for business and was really amazed. The Manhattan area was very nice, much cleaner than I expected, and everyone we met was very nice. It was nothing like the perception I’d held all these years. The history there along with the 911 memorial was really cool. Everybody should go at least once.

I'm glad you guys had a great time.

I won't volunteer to go places I can't carry. Stinks because I would love to see the west coast and big trees.

I was born in NYC.Worked on Webster Ave. in the Bronx, Jamaica, and Bedford Stuyestant, Brooklyn. The place is awful. I left there in 1966, thank God. I'm a country boy at heart. I remember when they built the Verazzano gangplank, all the people from Brooklyn moved to Staten Island thinking they were moving to the country. If I never see that place again it would be too soon !

I'm glad you made good memories

bed-sty is not on the guided tour agenda.....