Lemme see if I get this straight: New Jersey is fine, but New York is not. And I speak with you because why?
To be sure, I'm not one of those New Yorkers who believes that NYC is flawless, much less the center of the universe. But the ugliest? the dirtiest? the most depressing? Nah. Any other city in New England, New York State and the Midwest trumps NYC in all of those departments. What bothers me most about NYC is the physical and thus temporal distance between the center of town and affordable housing. Boston (and most other cities in the U.S. save LA) beat NY in that department. But that's the price (literally) of glory.
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To be sure, I'm not one of those New Yorkers who believes that NYC is flawless, much less the center of the universe. But the ugliest? the dirtiest? the most depressing? Nah. Any other city in New England, New York State and the Midwest trumps NYC in all of those departments. What bothers me most about NYC is the physical and thus temporal distance between the center of town and affordable housing. Boston (and most other cities in the U.S. save LA) beat NY in that department. But that's the price (literally) of glory.