What's up Members of the Barrio
It's Jon and today I could tell you 100 things that I love about New York City
But no more Mr. Nice Guy
I've lived here almost a decade
And there's just some stuff
That has really bothered me over the years
So tell me in the comments if you agree
Let's get to the reason that you clicked on this video
10 ThingsThat Drive Me Crazy about living in New York City
It drives me crazy that every time I go outside
I've got to put my game face on
Now anybody who's ever lived in New York City
Knows exactly what I'm talking about
It's the don't mess with me, don't come talk to me look that I think
May have given birth to the stereotype that New Yorkers are very rude people
Wer'e not rude
We just get approached all the time
No I don't have any spare change
No I don't want to support whatever cause it is you have
No I don't want your cd
I just want to walk to the grocery store and buy a 3 dollar and fifty cent avocado that's probably not going to be ripe for 2 or 3 days anyway
It drives me crazy how much the rent costs here
No I dont' want your 3,000 dollar, ground floor apartment
Bars on the window, shower in the kitchen, no sink in the bathroom
That's right you're washing your dirty hands in the kitchen
Brokers fee of 15% just for somebody to sign a few papers
That's 5,000 dollars I'm never going to see again
But don't worry, this gem gets greats Southern light
It drives me crazy how ridiculously expensive restaurants are here
This may be more of a Manhattan thing
But come on
$15 for a burger and a beer
That's an advertised special
There's nothing special about a Brooklyn Lager buddy
It drives me crazy taking the subway here
Now I respect the fact that this is the only subway system in the world that runs 24 hours a day
7 days a week
But it's brutally hot down there in the summer
Ice cold in the winters
It smells terrible
Don't even get me started on a lot of the passengers
No i don't want to hear you blasting your music
No i don't want to smell your stinky ass takeout food right next to me
No I dont' want to see whatever it is you're trying to sell me
All of you people who like to bull rush the train, right as the doors open, when the other passengers haven't even gotten out yet
You've probably got nowhere important to go anyway
It drives me crazy the way some tourists act here
Which is kind of ironic because i'm trying to help tourists who are visiting New York City
And if you're watching this video right now
You are likely not this type of tourist
But as my friend Evan likes to say
If you're driving down the road in Nebraska
And you see something nice on the side of the road.
Pull your car over
Same story in New York City
Don't crowd 3 or 4 people in a row
Blocking the sidewalk trying to take a photo
Of a big building, we're going places
And you're impeding our path
Don't be that guy
Please
It drives me crazy how much noise pollution there is
Cabbies i'm looking right at you
Honking your horn everytime you get to an intersection
And somebody hasn't inched forward right as the light changes
To red
It's just 2 seconds is your time really that important
And drunk frat boys at 3 o'clock in the morning
Being loud on the street
People are trying to sleep in the buildings above you
If you're gonna take a piss in the back alley
Next to my apartment
At least have the courtesy to keep it down
Just a little bit
It drives me crazy how smelly this city is
Have you ever walked down the street in the summer
Garbage bags everywhere
Weird stenches coming up from the sewer
Living in apartments so small you can smell what your neighbors beneath you are cooking
Well that's not always a bad thign
But it makes me hungry.. so it kind of is
It drives me crazy how much the weather sucks
I'm moving to New York City for the weather
Said nobody.. ever
The summers are hot and muggy
There's a reason i'm filming this video indoors right now
It's 90 degrees outside 70% humidity
At 5PM..
We're not in Tahiti folks
Winters are brutal and you're lucky to get a few nice weeks a year in the spring or the fall
Odds are i'm probably traveling during that period anyway
And I skip it
It drives me crazy how much it costs to go out at night
What a money sump
The Bars and Clubs of New York City
I don't even go to clubs
But single men out there
Roll up to one of the hot spots in Meatpacking
At midnight, on a saturday
And see how friendly the doormen are with you
If you don't have any girls in tow
And how many bottles they're going to expect you to buy
To get inside, to mingle with some phony ass people
Aww the bars
I love and hate them
Great places to meet friends
Overpriced as hell
8 dollars for a budlight and you're going to call that your special
Wake up the next morning, check your wallet, 60 dollars lighter
Nobody stole it, you just spent it champ
It drives me crazy that this city numbs you to just about everything
Puke on the side of the road, not my problem
Somebody sleeping on the side of the building in the dead of winter
Not my problem
A raving lunatic running down the street, screaming.. not my problem
It's the police's problem
It's the residents of that buildings problem
This city, can numb you to everything
It can make you quite selfish if you let it
And it's something that I'm honestly trying to work on
And something that I notice more and more everytime I come back here
After an extended leave
And with all that being said
This is still my favorite place on earth
I could live in any city in the United States
And I still choose to live in New York
This was all said out of love
So tell me in the comments what you thought about my list
Could you live in New York
Why or why not?
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