and welcome back to another episode of
tech lead I am the tech lead today we're
drinking a Starbucks iced coffee that's
pretty good goes down smooth just to be
clear though Starbucks is not sponsoring
this video in fact they always kicked me
out whenever I was traveling around
trying to do work I'd seen their cafes
and they would say you have to buy
something and their coffees were so
expensive and so then I would start
buying bottles of water now I know three
co-workers from Google who have just
picked up and left and moved over to New
York and so it seems like going to New
York is a trendy thing these days maybe
something that you're thinking about
doing as well and that I would give you
my thoughts about it so let's get into
it I've spent about 1 and 1/2 years
living in New York living out the dream
that apparently if you look up like 33
percent of young Americans dream about
living been in New York and I think it
was that statistic that actually made me
want to go live in New York
it wasn't my dream it was other people's
dreams that I wanted to live out and so
that I could tell them well I did your
dream even though I had very little
desire to go live in New York for anyone
who has lived in a real city like young
like Tokyo Tokyo is probably far bigger
than New York far more advanced and any
of these Asian cities are very highly
developed the infrastructure is amazing
and so if you've been to any of these
actual like mega cities then you will
probably have very low desire to go live
in New York but if you don't know it
then you might just go end up living
there it's kind of like how penguins
will just go live in Antarctica because
they don't know that there's anything
better out there the biggest reason to
me is that it is not permanent home
because you have to leave at some point
it's just not good for families it's
very expensive there's no car culture
involved and there's just too much
walking if you have like kids and stuff
like that so the thought to me that I
was just going there as living there
burning a ton of cash on the expensive
apartments and that it would never be a
place that I could truly call home it
was just burning cash but I was not
actually building up anything
I think that kind of started getting to
me New York is not place for young
families it's a place for people in
their 20s pretty much all the amenities
of the cities like bars restaurants
events all that stuff that you're paying
for you can't really go to with children
the way I saw it was like a short-term
temporary place that you could visit
kind of like say Hawaii type of thing
but it's not the type of place where you
want to just go and live there and just
keep living there until you get bored of
it and just keep being there because
every moment that you're there you're
burning tons of cash New York is a city
it is an expensive city and it feeds on
the blood of naive 20 euros who go there
chasing some dream and you know that's
how the city sustains itself without
that influx of cash from naive 20-year
olds who are just like out there burning
tons of money without that the city
cannot sustain all its lights all of its
infrastructure like the city would just
be you know torn down so the other thing
about New York are the people the people
are very funny there since the people
there are all these young life 20 girls
who have never eaten anything good in
their lives until now they're obsessing
over like cupcakes like it's the first
time they've had cupcakes and and then
drawers this huge boom and cupcakes in
New York because the first time young
people have ever been able to eat
cupcakes or there might be like a pizza
and that everyone goes crazy about
pizzas and then people say it's the best
pizza they've ever had and it's like and
New York Pizza is actually pretty bad
compared to say Chicago pizza they're
mostly there are hustlers basically like
everyone's hustling hustling for money
and your doctors hustling your doctors
trying to like get a little bit more
extra cash from you I might try to call
my doctor and ask him about a concern I
have and he would just not pick up the
phone or like give me a really quick
answer and hang up and then tried to
overcharge me because he's hustling
everyone's broke the rent is so
expensive and everyone's just trying to
get more money like the apartment people
when I left I gave them my couch for
free but still they tried to scare me
out of even more money by like keeping
my security deposit and I almost had to
fly back and sue them everyone you meet
they're running like two different jobs
they're trying to make their dreams come
true
and that and I think that's kind of one
interesting thing it's a good thing that
everyone's a dreamer there but it gets a
little tiring after a while when you see
like people are just trying to make a
little time everywhere there go
there'll be doorman and they'll just
open the doors for you and you're
expected to tip them around Christmas
time you're supposed to tip your doorman
like a hundred bucks or more or
something like that just to show him
thanks for all the times and for me I'm
just there's a lot of wrong things with
tipping culture like you know people who
dress better who look better may get
more tips than people who don't so and
basically all the people you meet there
are like young people who have just run
away from home and they maybe don't have
good relationships with their parents
and they're just trying to like go out
on their own and make it so if that's
the type of person that you enjoy
meeting then by all means go over to New
York if you like rats it's a good place
there's rats and other was my apartment
was brand new but even still I had a rat
running around in my apartment and when
I asked the management about and looked
up the information about this everyone
has rats in New York is just part of the
culture there's rats and all the
apartment walls and that's just how it
is like at night you just hear something
chewing on the walls the weather was
another pretty negative point for me my
first time in New York I got myself this
apartment that was pretty small and it
didn't have Windows that with face
outwards the window with face of wall
and there's many complexes like this
where the buildings actually Hollow and
there's a courtyard in the middle and so
your apartment may not actually face
outside where you can have a breeze it
just faces another wall and and that's
type of scenario there's no breeze and
in the summer time it becomes
suffocating and I remember I would wake
up at night and I couldn't breathe the
air just became so hot and stagnant and
and I remember I would sleep next to
like a US beef and I had and the fan
would help blow some air because without
that I'd probably die you know you may
have seen on TV the New Year's Eve Ball
Drop the story behind that is very few
locals from New York I have actually
seen the ball drop because they know
it's absolute torture to do that what
happens is you need to
be there at like 3:00 p.m. and you just
wait nine hours holding your pee because
there's no bathrooms as soon as you
tried to go to the bathroom you will
lose your spot in line then you can't
get back so you just hold it and you
wait nine hours and a lot of people have
to wear diapers and you endure through
the weather it's very cold the area
clears extremely fast right after the
ball finishes dropping for New Year's
Eve because people just really need to
go to the bathroom and it's just really
cold I would say the other problem I had
was there was no car culture like so if
I wanted to go over to Whole Foods that
was like a 20 minute walk I'd have to
carry a gallon of milk and eggs once a
week and walk 20 minutes up and 20
minutes back and if I wanted to go to
Trader Joe's
that was another ten to 20 minute walk
against those subway lines generally run
north and south but if you want to go
west and east
there's no good transit system for that
like you could try to learn the bus
system which isn't very good without
that car culture you just end up
spending a huge amount of time walking
around trying to get around and in the
end it's it's a huge loss of time for
you the tech scene is not as strong as
in Silicon Valley I played around for
some jobs by then my salary his outlook
Sonny's here hey honey hey so as I was
saying but then my salary history was
already well above 100 K and I was going
around trying to apply for jobs and it
was very difficult to find anything that
broke about 100 K and I was basically
overpriced for almost every job that I
had applied to that's in contrast to
Silicon Valley where the salary range
for tech is well above that there would
be some funny events in Central Park
like in the summertime there's free
events where if you get up early in the
morning you could go see like morning
concerts by big stars like I saw the Goo
Goo Dolls I saw a Nicki Minaj and there
are opportunities to see others but I
just got tired of waking up early and
waiting in line for all this stuff I got
a chance to talk to a New York cop one
time and he also mentioned as soon as he
could he would get out of New York and I
think that's kind of saying something
about the city because car
kind of see a lot of the city they kind
of know the city very well they get
around and he wouldn't really give his
exact reasons why but my final point
about New York may be that there's not
much to do outside of Manhattan like in
California you can just get in the car
and just start driving and there's so
much interesting things like you could
go to Yosemite you could start driving
south and you could get into Big Sur Los
Angeles Mexico around New York there's
just forest land and like New Jersey
around you so there's not many
interesting side trips that you can make
and once you finish exploring this you
know five square mile area that is
Manhattan you're pretty much done and
people just seem to be up to obsess and
memorize every little block of New York
and they take pride in doing that but
it's to me it's kind of like obsessing
over a little something that's not
really worthwhile in some senses New
York is a very boring City like I know
that my brother came to visit and within
two weeks he was bored of New York and I
saw him just sitting in bookstores
reading because he was done with the
city I do remember the one thing I
really enjoyed about New York was how
diverse it was like I met a lot of
people from different parts of the world
there and it's kind of a great place for
a road traveler to begin to settle down
because it's a single city where the
world comes to you I also did like how
if I were bored I could just start
walking around and there would be events
everywhere like it was fun to just go
over to Times Square and see what's
going on there and almost every weekend
there'd be some event being set up there
Central Park was fun to just taking jogs
around there it's very pleasant and
there are fireflies in the summer times
I left thinking that it was a fine City
I could go back and live in it at some
point but I would say it's very
difficult to make it a home and it's the
sort of place that people go there in
their 20s anyway those are my main
points about New York if you're going
there good luck I hope you have fun but
I have a feeling you probably won't it's
just going to bankrupt you I'll do it
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