we moved to park slope brooklyn a year and a half ago and a question i get all the time
is do we regret it do we miss living in manhattan well the answer is a little complicated do you
miss manhattan no i don't doesn't mean i don't like it though but i don't miss it like to live
there no really i think the life here is a little bit more peaceful not a lot of course enough for
me to be feel more relaxed but i still have the city vibe and the things i like around me
i have to admit that never gets old in here and in our last apartment we couldn't even
fit a reclining couch into that tiny room that we call the living room i don't know how i live nine
years without a view of the outside world and it's a great challenge and a great thing to do once in
your life to live in a super central location in lower manhattan but i don't ever want to do it
again i love my couch i love my real living room you can get a real living room in manhattan though
how much that's my question
67 degrees mid-march park slope it is hopping
california 625 for gallon of gas new york 6 25 for a scoop of ice cream remember in manhattan
when i would go out it would be all young people all the restaurants all the bars at least in
greenwich village here in park slope it's like families everywhere strollers just a completely
different vibe than i was used to when i was living in downtown manhattan
why do you like park slope because people are more chill here i think
when i go out and i feel like i have to run because someone's behind me trying to pass me can
enjoy the nice weather walk on the streets no one is in a rush i'm in a rush you're always nervous
like what would you say the biggest thing you miss maybe having a lot of options to eat
24 hours sometimes if i felt hungry i don't know like midnight the options were like big
and here i think they're more limited the point i want to bring up too is i i do miss
some of the food choices in manhattan late night around here it's like mostly delis or
mcdonald's fast food stuff you know i lived a few blocks from one of the best
streets in the world for late night eating mcdougal in the village oh my god corgis
i do miss my favorite pizza spots halal still a lot more exploring to do in brooklyn not gonna
lie a lot more exploring we have to do so the food is a big thing that i miss for my
nine years in the village from the perspective of someone that travels around new york all the time
i really miss being central to everything in manhattan and that was
so nice for me that i could hop to queens in 30 minutes i just filmed in flushing and the
commute was over an hour from brooklyn brooklyn to queens can be an extremely long commute i miss
the centrality of being in manhattan that might be the biggest thing actually
you want to move here this block oh yeah i love sixth ave it's really nice and quiet
beautiful brown stones that's how we move to park slope isn't it brooklyn for the brownstones
i know i'm a boring married guy at this point but i kind of do miss the nightlife of manhattan
especially where i used to live i could walk to hundreds of bars and then stumble home after
this area of brooklyn's really lacking in that regard i know there's bushwick i know there's
williamsburg if you want that nightlife fixed but in general manhattan is just
a much bigger party than brooklyn's ever gonna be these are fake these have got to be fake
very fake i think if you if you actually grew apples out here they
might get stolen i don't know like they want to put the tree there or the street
does it feel like home yet oh i think it feels more hum that i ever failed home in my husband
i don't know how to express that i don't think i ever felt home in manhattan and here after one and
a half years will come i got a lot of flack from some of you out there when i said that brooklyn
has more of a neighborhood vibe because it's true that uptown manhattan does have some neighborhoods
that do have that feel and now a lot of what i said was more about i don't know
below 42nd street or below 59th street but certainly there is that neighborhood element
to this part of brooklyn you know people sitting outside long-time residents you don't feel that
transplant situation where everyone's just moving there to try to get ahead and then move on or
tourists i don't i don't i don't see tourists outside here i remember going outside my apartment
on sullivan street and i used to see tourists taking photos of our block because it looked right
at the empire state building don't see much of that here which is nice i love you guys a tourist
but i don't need to live around where all the tourists hang out what are your names i'm dan john
john anna nice to meet you definitely a different vibe than the city i enjoy going into manhattan
to get like the energy but i enjoy coming back to fourth greene it's like nice and peaceful and
exactly what we were just saying right the same thing so true
i said all i hear around here are strollers bikes or scooters the sound of little wheels
that's the sound of a brownstone brooklyn definitely look at the size of these donuts
very simple but it's my favorite diet cinnamon sugar
what they like when i yes to the pastry shop if they have anything apple uh i'm
i'm getting that like 100 so it's like if you like the cinnamon sugar you know like
that's a go-to i got you i always have a go-to as well if like the flavor you said is that if you
go go-to yeah oh man we don't have it right now because it's another rotating flavor but i would
have suggested the exhausting cream for you boston cream yeah that's a good one that's a good one
you know you guys are getting three i'll give you the fourth one for free all right thank you
so much right here i want to get a shot of this oh in my video no no you don't even need to explain
anything are you good this isn't going to make it home no no way thank you so much for everything
you think the customer service is better in brooklyn yes but i don't blame people in manhattan
because i think people in manhattan have to deal with a lot of tourists way more people every day
i don't blame them for being a little bit grumpy sometimes so i think they are still nice
damn that's good look how much nutella is baked into here even for five bucks epic donut epic
best part she's running you're eating it best
part about being an adult is that you can ruin your dinner
and no one can tell you otherwise except maybe your wife but it's too late do i regret leaving
manhattan no because i think in that period of my life it was a perfect spot and even being here for
a year and a half i don't regret the decision for a split second but there are things that i miss
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