re: SEC Redneck/White Trash/Hillbilly Ranking

Shocker, rednecks don't like big cities.

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New York has not, and will never be, cool.

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I lived there for three long years. I liked the thousands of great ethnic food options to choose from, and that's really the only nice thing I have to say about the place. The city is full of garbage, rats, and roaches, and the subway is about as close to lawlessness as Texas was in 1870. It's better now than it was in the 1980s, but the place has really taken a nosedive since COVID. Street crime has gotten completely out of control again thanks to idiotic laws and NYPD can't do anything to stop it. People from NYC make being obnoxious their entire personality. The culture of the place is bizarre and hellbent on materialism. I don't think there's anywhere else in the world where so many people have an obsession with owning multiple pairs of thousand dollar shoes.

I left and never looked back. People love to shite on Chicago, but most of Chicago is infinitely better than most of NYC.