{"id":46693,"date":"2022-03-04T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46693"},"modified":"2022-03-03T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:22:02","slug":"qotd-avoid-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/03\/04\/qotd-avoid-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Avoid New York City&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>It [NYC] smells terrible, the people are rude, and everything costs at least three times more than it should, for no discernible increase in quality. Most activities are crowded and overrated (e.g. Broadway plays such as <em>Les Miz<\/em>), food in the &#8220;best&#8221; restaurants is no better than you&#8217;ll get in any good restaurant in your home town, and walking in the streets of Manhattan is as close to a contact sport as you&#8217;ll get off a rugby field. Don&#8217;t buy into the hype; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/de-blasio-mental-illness-homelessness\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York <em>sucks<\/em><\/a>. If you can make it there, you probably have organized crime ties (just like Sinatra did).<\/p>\n<p>Kim du Toit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2019\/01\/28\/dont-do-that\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Do That&#8221;, <em>Splendid Isolation<\/em><\/a>, 2019-01-28.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It [NYC] smells terrible, the people are rude, and everything costs at least three times more than it should, for no discernible increase in quality. Most activities are crowded and overrated (e.g. Broadway plays such as Les Miz), food in the &#8220;best&#8221; restaurants is no better than you&#8217;ll get in any good restaurant in your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,13],"tags":[86,321,274,202],"class_list":["post-46693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-criticism","tag-nyc","tag-tourism","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c97","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72072,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46693\/revisions\/72072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}