It is not remotely important to me whether you stay in New York or leave, but it is absolutely critical that you not tell me about it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... - ThreadSky

michaelhobbes.bsky.social • 22 days ago

It is not remotely important to me whether you stay in New York or leave, but it is absolutely critical that you not tell me about it.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/12/why-i-broke-up-with-new-york

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englishhurler.bsky.social•22 days ago

I left New York because it was getting late and I needed to catch a train home before Grand Central closed for the night.

ellinnorx.bsky.social•22 days ago

Perhaps one of those moments that I won’t curse for not being able to read the article.

paulchillman.bsky.social•22 days ago

piranhabrianna.bsky.social•22 days ago

I've seen similar things about why people have left Portland, and I always want to comment "so you're saying your place is available? What neighborhood?"

igor-kitty.bsky.social•22 days ago

In the 90s/00s there were articles about leaving CA cuz it wasn't what they signed up for. Well, GO! Fer goodness sake, move so [what you said]. We're sorry you're disappointed, but move on cuz we're all going through the same shit here and ...

tmoney2007.bsky.social•22 days ago

Oldie but a goodie.

pgg-1.bsky.social•22 days ago

"...and now I'm a rich person in London". Why does the general public care about this? I could see this being an even worse spin off of "How I met your mother"

weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social•22 days ago

People who live in NYC pretty consistently make the mistake of thinking the rest of us are endlessly fascinated with NYC life and whether or not people love or hate that life. Sorry. No.

stuball6251.bsky.social•22 days ago

🤙😁😎

owen-symes.bsky.social•22 days ago

I'd love to be paid X amount of money to tell the world why I left Northeast PA!

sammagotchi.bsky.social•22 days ago

Insufferable.

inigopurcell.bsky.social•22 days ago

I will take this kind of piece only, and I mean only, from people who grew up in a normal bloody family in a megacity and ended up living somewhere else because their only option for any decent standard of living was that or some kind of Double Indemnity type thing.

inigopurcell.bsky.social•22 days ago

(There is an interesting piece to be written about "I grew up with a single mother in a brownstone apartment while Hell's Kitchen was being gradually gentrified and have lived here all my life, but I was going broke and slowly insane so I moved to Wichita")

inigopurcell.bsky.social•22 days ago

But no one is commissioning those pieces

lunarhexagon.bsky.social•22 days ago

Oh Jesus, it’s Lena Dunham.

Like, I started seeing her again recently and everything I’ve read from her is just - are there people in her life that tell her no? Or that something a bad idea?

She’s like a softer, quieter Trump. Just like him, she comes across as insufferable and self consumed

wessoman.bsky.social•22 days ago

Well every generation gets their own Woody Allen. A navel gazing New York sexual predator who is loved by critics and absolutely nobody else.

ruiboom.bsky.social•22 days ago

This is a genre in UK press.Why I left London, why I returned to London, why moving out of London was the best thing I ever did, I moved to the country and regretted it. Yawn. Usually an estate agent (realtor) behind it.

robjackel.bsky.social•22 days ago

I want to shit on this article but I don't want to bother reading it first.

igor-kitty.bsky.social•22 days ago

Seems like every few years it comes back around.

projekction.bsky.social•22 days ago

it’s cool to shit on it just from the headline.

qgty.bsky.social•22 days ago

Of NYC: "that I think it’s wanton and unregulated, a “Where’s Waldo?” of Boschian perversion."

There - that is easily enough of it to shit on.

winxwar.bsky.social•22 days ago

I need to hear NYCs side of they story

porcelinarr.bsky.social•22 days ago

And nauseating pieces like this are why I broke up with the @newyorker.com. It’s a real question whether our yawning chasm of inequality can still support an upper-middlebrow general-interest magazine.

themistocleswall.bsky.social•22 days ago

New York’s the best city on earth

come at us bros👇🏼

porcelinarr.bsky.social•22 days ago

Funny, where I live the vermin are coming from New York (and LA, Texas, Georgia, and Colorado, but mostly New York).

themistocleswall.bsky.social•22 days ago

mmmmmkay
🤨

eigenvogel.bsky.social•22 days ago

"This isn't an airport. You don't have to announce your departure."

bevinflynn.bsky.social•22 days ago

The other day the algo fed me a "Why I regret moving to Seattle article." She never lived in Seattle. She lived in a small town on Kitsap and complained that there were only old people and she was a massive ferry ride from anything fun. No shit! You should have moved to Seattle!

mcfustercluck.bsky.social•22 days ago

It’s just so funny that most “Seattle is dying” media is entirely produced by and for people that don’t live here. It’s always the wanker who lives in like Snohomish that talks about 3rd and Pine. Ppl who live here? Well, we acknowledge the problems and want to fix them. It’s calm, not rabid

blanson100.bsky.social•22 days ago

I grew up on Capitol Hill; I try not to be provincial, but last year I quietly made this and sent it to my sibling after listening to some eye rolling "I'm from Seattle and...." discourse.

mcfustercluck.bsky.social•22 days ago

Ha. I grew up down in Vancouver, WA and it was always funny to see folks talk about Portland and it’s like buddy, see that giant river? We don’t live there

eigenvogel.bsky.social•22 days ago

I always point out that if Seattle was really such a hellhole, it wouldn't be so expensive. It's telling that the era of affordable city real estate in pretty much every major city corresponded with peak crime rates. Safety is gentrifying. ;)

mcfustercluck.bsky.social•22 days ago

It’s funny, but I’ve actually seen people make that argument or something adjacent to it. I think it was over on Twitter, but there was some “discourse” about like playing music out loud over your phone like on the public transit, and there was a lefty arguing that that’s white supremacy lol

eigenvogel.bsky.social•22 days ago

There are people in my city that argue that when they spray graffiti on stuff they're helping to keep the place affordable.

mcfustercluck.bsky.social•22 days ago

But also related to this - I had a coworker that moved from PDX➡️Vegas. I asked why the hell she’d do that (it’s fuckin Vegas) and the top reasons were CoL (ok fair) but also that she was surrounded by a ton of families and it wasn’t fun. Turns out she didn’t live in Portland, she was in Beaverton

bevinflynn.bsky.social•22 days ago

Yeah, I have a family member in Montana who always seems shocked when he sees me that I haven't been murdered by unhoused gangs. He almost tearfully tells me to be careful. Dude, I'm safe. You know who's getting beaten up? Unhoused people.

mcfustercluck.bsky.social•22 days ago

Yeah like right now there is a murder trial ongoing because a dude was walking around First Hill killing homeless people with a fucking axe

drsaddison.bsky.social•22 days ago

That article was pathetic.

joerispoli.bsky.social•22 days ago

LOL the author

tamslick.bsky.social•22 days ago

New York pundit flounces are always histrionic.

tryg72.bsky.social•22 days ago

Yes, this thing you decided to share is not remotely important. Just like the infinity of things that also aren't important, this one motivated you in a way that you want to inform everyone isn't important to you.

Aka, "I'm not gay, and me seeking out same sex encounters isn't important to me."

thebitterguy.bsky.social•22 days ago

But surely the author is an interesting person whose valuable perspective will... nope!

projekction.bsky.social•22 days ago

lol this x 1000!

emptyjetseatbribes.bsky.social•22 days ago

if you stop thrifting at Goodwill you have to write one piece about it

joshwhite1.bsky.social•22 days ago

The new Veganism.

adlemm.bsky.social•22 days ago

The by line almost made me squirt coffee out of my nose lol

bopptimist.bsky.social•22 days ago

yah i gasped lol

macavoy.bsky.social•22 days ago

Why did I move back to New York City? In this essay nobody asked for, I will repeatedly compare my life to the hit TV show Friends

donbaldwin.bsky.social•22 days ago

We went through this in Portland a few years ago, pieces from people who moved her from 2005-2015 who were leaving because it wasn't cute and fun anymore and there were too many homeless because developers built a fuckton of trendy apartments for them and no housing for the poors.

eigenvogel.bsky.social•22 days ago

Someone leaving NYC for *London* is unlikely to be facing affordability issues.

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