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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 548068, member: 4381&quot;]She was a middle aged women and I think she had some expertise in the facility.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think she was just no match for my kids.&nbsp; I&#039;ve traveled around quite a bit, both when I was in the Army and as a civilian and when I was young I lived in Florida.&nbsp; I&#039;ve lived in San Antonio, Ft Lauderdale, Colorado Springs, and New York, both up and down state.&nbsp; Its easy when you live here to sound like your bragging, but you&#039;ll have to take my word it&#039;s not so much as bragging as much as that we live in a very rich environment.&nbsp; I have affection for other places.&nbsp; I especially liked the Springs, and San Fransisco.&nbsp; But nothing really matches for me the width and breadth of this city and state.&nbsp; I really believe that unless someone understands New York City that they really don&#039;t understand America.&nbsp; The opposite is also true.&nbsp; If you only understand New York then you don&#039;t understand America.&nbsp; And its always a bad deal to tell a New York Native how another place has the best of this or that, because its a battle you can&#039;t really win.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there is a lot about this city that is hard.&nbsp; It&#039;s expensive, and while its one of the friendliest places on earth, its also the rudest.&nbsp; It&#039;s unexplainably dirty, although not what it was 30 years ago.&nbsp; Living here is a struggle.&nbsp; You never get a break.&nbsp; The communities are very tight, especially in Brooklyn, and sometimes I wonder if I woke up in a small town.&nbsp; It&#039;s enormous on the scale that until you live here for a decade, you don&#039;t fully comprehend.&nbsp; 80% of the people born here leave for the suburbs, or other regions.&nbsp; Nevada, California and&nbsp; Florida are almost built by ex-New Yorkers.&nbsp; Meanwhile nearly all of the inner-city is occupied by Europeans, Midwesterners and imports.</p><p><br /></p><p>But to travel all the way to Connecticut and not experience this city is just an unfathomable error.&nbsp; People come to be here from across the globe.&nbsp; ANd yet the charm of this town is that it is taken for granted until something like 9-11 or the banking industry collapses.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I go to other places I try to experience them.&nbsp; Frankly, most places don&#039;t have enough community life to experience anything and I run around banging my head on the wall looking for locals to do things with.&nbsp; But many places still have quite a lot to afford visitors and residents.&nbsp; And I have a long list of places I still want to visit including Nashville, Cincinnati and Kentucky, Seattle, San Diego, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Rio, St Louis (if nothing more than to see a Cards game), and the Grand Canyon area.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve already traveled both Carolina&#039;s, Washington DC, Phili, Cleveland, Pittsburgh,&nbsp; Texas, Germany, South Texas, Colorado from Leadville and Mount Massive to Bolder and Pueblo,&nbsp; Buffalo, Rochester, Lake Placid and vicinity, a good part of France, Israel, Jerusalem, Haifa, all of South Florida from Key West up to Dana Beach and Orlando, New Orleans, the San Francisco Bay area and Silicon Valley, most of Connecticut,&nbsp; Long Island out to Mountauk, Milwaukee, the Dells, Chicago, more of Goergia than I care to remember, and I&#039;m likely leaving something out.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I never really feel at ease until I cross that Brooklyn Bridge and grab a bagel at 2AM.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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