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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 2065344, member: 19065&quot;]I&#039;ve lived in NYC, Upstate, New England, the Mid-west, traveled to more than half the States in America so far and spent significant periods of time living in the UK, Italy and Japan, <i>and</i> I&#039;ve been to a handful of other countries in the Americas, Caribbean and throughout Western Europe. There&#039;s no one place necessarily better than another, each has a character all its own, things to love and things to hate. It&#039;s all what <i>you</i> choose to make of the place and your time in <i>or</i> away from it.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s interesting how people&#039;s strong reaction to NYC comes to the fore instantly when <i>this place</i> is mentioned. That&#039;s because NYC has a major influence on many people&#039;s lives, near and far, whether they&#039;ve lived in it, just visited it, never considered it or dismissed it entirely. I&#039;ve met that reaction several times on this forum alone. While most complain of spatial issues, traffic and costs of life, they are quick to overlook the intense amount of things the city has to offer-- which I&#039;d suggest are a return on one&#039;s investment for the cost of living or for coming here to play.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s so much to take from life in an urban center such as NYC, which is why I mentioned so many of the purely numismatic pursuits alone available in the city due to what may interest forum members. If you need any other visitor advice I have that as well. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Plenty of people who live in NYC have second homes in neighboring States or down in Florida, and relish their chances to go hike, ski, hunt, boat, and enjoy nature and wide open spaces. Others take day trips or vacations to other areas, and many of those living in the city are actually not native born here and so can&#039;t readily be dismissed as city-folk who would be lost in the woods. Not only NYC, but at no other time in history have so many people been moving towards, not away from cities. Urban populations continue to show growth and concentration of human activity. </p><p><br /></p><p>I love to hike, drive in the desert, scuba dive in clear warm waters, see different shores, enjoy utter silence in remote places, but I <u>never</u> feel lost in the world when I travel. Sometimes getting lost and coming out of your element is the whole purpose of learning, in finding adventure and having something other than a theme-park experience in life.</p><p><br /></p><p>The original context for why I mentioned NYC in this thread was [USER=44004]@Mainebill[/USER] mentioned &quot;there&#039;s nothing closer than Baltimore&quot;, having bypassed two other major urban centers (Boston and NYC) offering nearer (to him) major coin shows on the east coast.</p><p><br /></p><p>If one can find their way out of a forest, a desert, rolling plains or mountain ranges, then they can find their way in-and-around and out of NYC, too. Manhattan, after all, is where most visitors end up and it&#039;s only about 3 miles by 14 miles in size and surrounded by water.</p><p><br /></p><p>And remember, if you&#039;re lost, someone can always tell you where to go! </p><p><img src="http://smileys.emoticonsonly.com/emoticons/s/statue_of_liberty-1679.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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