Manhattan isn’t a driving city for exactly the reasons you have given but that is one of the reasons I loved living in Manhattan. No car. No car repairs. No insurance. No driving. No trying to find a parking spot.

I didn’t care for the subway much and only took it when I was trying to make it somewhere on time but it never looked like the picture in the post. True it can be smelly sometimes and the people on it can be eccentric but you have to take the good with the bad.

The wind does suck sometimes. There was a January day that I was walking in Hell’s Kitchen and I was wishing I had taken a cab. Between the wind, the slush and trying to dodge cabs it was a pain in the ass but it didn’t change my mind about Manhattan.

The times I hated the people were when I had to cross Times Square and it would be crowded with gawkers and I did become the “Get out of my f’n way. I live here” person. But screw ‘em, they will never see me again.

Yeah there are some crappy people in Manhattan but I also met some really great people there too and almost every day I miss being there for a lot of reasons. It’s still the best city I have lived in and I have lived in most of the big US cities.

BTW – Cool site. It is a daily read for me.