Reasons to love (hate) New York

Reading the year-end double issue of the New York magazine was a frightening insight to why people chose to live in one of the world’s most expensive city that has dirtier streets, crappier subway, poorer public service, and more polluted air than all of the European cities I’ve ever been to.
In their third annual “Reasons to love NY” issue, editors of the magazine came up with fifty things that reveal more about the local culture of Manhattan than any anthropological study could possibly come up with.
I have my own reasons to love and hate this city and since I haven’t decided yet which group outweighs the other, I was ready to be convinced that this is the world’s best place in fact. So what’s here to love asked the magazine its readers? NY fanatics dutifully emailed their odes to Manhattan.
Here’s a short panorama of the survey: they love NY because they can dress however they want and no one frowns upon them, they can date five people at once and never get caught, their household garbage can end up in a Chelsea gallery anytime, they can order up pizza from the Italian restaurant right across the street, or get their laundry delivered, they can get a pack of Camel Lights at 3 am in the morning in walking distance, they can hook up with someone on the day of a breakup, they live in the only city that has a nostalgia for crime and last but not least because people in NY wipe their hands with antibacterial after traveling one stop with the train but not after picking up after their pets on the street.
These and a bunch of other vital things are why they love this unique city.
Honestly, I couldn’t give a better summary of why I hate it.