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  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    We’re not the same. I like being able to go on a hike after taking 20 steps from my front door. I like hearing and seeing new birds regularly from my window. I like walking my dog without suffocating on the smog of the Manhattan streets.

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      16 days ago

      Not counting nice walks in prospect Park, I can get on the metro north train and go on a variety of hikes. It’s not 20 steps, but I also get all the other benefits of a city.

      Also Manhattan isn’t known for smog, and there is a lot more to New York than Manhattan. Go look at like park slope or Astoria

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        15 days ago

        I had to go into CVS to escape the air in Manhattan. Granted I’ve only been to Manhattan and Brooklyn, those are “city” parts, which this post refers to.

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      16 days ago

      I’m from the country side and I very much like easy access to nature, but New York is a great city, especially with all the parks! The subway is bomb

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      16 days ago

      Yeah, I think you’re being a bit hyperbolic, but I generally agree. I live about an hour from Manhattan (from the Holland, and then another hour to get through lololol), but I’m fifteen minutes from a reservoir that you can hike and boat, fifteen minutes from farms. My town is walkable, and I can walk to a hospital, grocery store, and library in, you guessed it, fifteen minutes. I’m an hour and change from the shore, about the same from the Poconos. I like having access to all the places, but I like to live in suburbia.