Yes, I have a mostly black wardrobe, but I've never been anywhere else where you can feel perfectly comfortable wearing just about ANYTHING. It's a wonderful place for self expression.
Born & raised in NYC (Manhattan) but the rent is astronomical for certain "good" areas. I make a good living but the rent & parking is getting worse & worse, that's why I moved to upstate NY for a better affordable life, So I just drive to NYC everyday for work.
"If you can make it here you can make it everywhere". I'm a full time traveller and I've seen many places in the Western world, I must say though, that NYC is the most challenging place I've visited/lived in. You can make every dream of yours become true, but it's so hard to actually accomplish any little goal. So if you are tough and tenacious enough to keep pushing and finally succeeding here, every other place in the world will seem so easy to settle in. Stay tough and keep working hard!!! That's why I love this city!!!
Jennifer O'Brien I can’t wait to visit next yea, first time in New York (I live in London) found a great hotel between the flatiron building and the Empire State Building, two iconic structures. Do you do private tours or recommend anyone? I promise I’m not a pervert or weirdo. 🤣🇬🇧🇺🇸
If apartments are small It’s cause you are living in the city If anything Best place to live always it probably has to be 20-30 minutes from train station I lived in the Bronx and Queens Probably cheapest place is 1hour from the city
Hey! I’m a New Yorker, and this video is SO TRUE!!! I think the honest way you talk about is refreshing and adorable. 😄 Sincerely, David Storey (Flatiron area)
Jennifer, as a native NY'er (NYC that is) I love your channel. Just found out about it via the link at Action Kid's channel. I'm very proud of my city and I consider it a blessing whenever I get a chance to assist a visitor to my town. It makes my day.
I really like #9 - "Thou shalt lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way" - I know the world isn't perfect, BUT - i generally don't mind if my time and/or money is being wasted as long as I'm the one doing wasting. On the other hand, if I wanna take my time with something, I try to get outta everyone else's way.
Being a New Yorker is a created attitude, shaped by your surroundings. No matter where you go, you will always be a New Yorker, your wardrobe will still be black, you will walk with a purpose and you will always be right.
-average rent elsewhere isn't $3,000?? I better move to another state, I've lived in New York for too long! -also, 90% of my closet is black... I only wear light-colored shirts if I'm meeting someone for the first time!
Yes I also better move to save money but I can’t imagine! Love this city too much! Omg I feel you with wearing a lot of black! Smart to wear light-colored shirts when meeting someone new love that! Thanks so much for your awesome comment!
I've moved to NYC from SF. It's CHEAPER in NYC to rent. And because I don't need a car, my monthly costs are lower as it would be $1600 to operate (fuel, insurance, maintenance) and park a car in a reserved space/garage (I'm not going to play parking Bingo every time I come home). No more 72 mile r/t daily commute for work. I'm in the process of buying a co-op apt to get out of the brutal rental market. The scams with broker's fees and other BS is horrible to deal with.
I’m a Kansan. A one bedroom apartment is rarely more than $450 a month, and you can find a place for less than three hundred. I spend more on gas than I do rent.
As a native New Yorker I have to confess that this video is accurate. I also think that New York is more creative, kinder, and better off with you living here
It seems you are focusing on the borough of Manhattan, not New York City in total. Not all NYC apartments are expensive, nor small. It depends on availability, and location. It is expensive to live here, but salaries are also higher than in other places to make up for the expense.
Yes well said but I just looked at about 20 more apartments all over not just Manhattan and they’re all expensive for what space you get though farther out does get you a little more for sure!
Give you a little tip from a lifelong Italian New Yorker. The all black dress came from Italians. Traditionally when people die we wear black and once this starts it never ends. You lose one, start wearing black to represent mourning, then people in your life continue to die so you end up just adopting black as the normal lifelong attire. Started in the roaring 20s here. My grandmother wore black from the time she got here during WW2 to the time she died.
nyc is pretty expensive, though jeans being 55 dollars? no way. i bought some levi's pants for 25.59 each(though there was discount involved) and they are amazing.
Oh nice!!! Yes this is an average to it includes the highest and lowest averaging to that though it is definitely possible to get jeans for closer to $25 as you mentioned!
@@Jenniferobrien I'm gonna go to nyc around the 22nd of November around xmas time. Any recommendations for that period for me to visit? Keep up the good work!
I started watching your videos for some tips while I was on vacation in New York last week. My vacations over and I'm no longer in NYC but I still find myself watching your videos just cause haha. Great stuff!
Oh so glad to hear you were watching my videos for helpful tips for your vacation last week, and so glad you're still watching, thank you so much! Really appreciate your comment! :)
Move to Jersey City NJ. It has lower rents and it can be reached by the Port Authority Trans Hudson subway on 6th Ave. Take the train to Grove St. station. There are real estate offices around, plus the Journal Square Bus Terminal. Where there are local and interurban buses to surrounding towns and buses to Atlantic City where there are buses to Center City Philadelphia.
We upstaters are territorial too. I hate to remind people all the time. I’m from NY but do not live in NYC! I’m proud to be UNY born and bread. I love the city and hope it gets its glory back after the pandemic.
I think it is so expensive because of mass tourism. We come, we pay the extortionate prices. Plus, the expected tipping just makes it even more expensive for tourists ... but still we come, because it is such a good place to visit.
Actually, I believe there were two sales but the second one was a scam! That second one was from another guy who approached a second group of Indians and offered them money and they accepted the offer and left. He found out later that he got “taken”.
Life-long NYer and I realized the other day that all I wear is black. I have all these aspirations of wearing other colors, so I buy all these pieces of clothes that come in a variety of colors. And then I never wear them. I admit defeat. The noise thing isn’t really true. It depends on where you live. Haha! Just as I wrote that I realized I could hear the faint sound of a fire truck. I honestly don’t notice the noise, so maybe you have a point after all. Great video! I’m always curious to see how others view my hometown
Oh God. This explains so much Why I don't own anything in light colors. Yes, everyone is in a rush because getting to places can take a while(look at the subway if you don't believe me). The city is sometimes too big for it's own good.
AND I LOVE IT! ! I live three hours away from NYC and every weekend I cannot wait to be in be there. ..especially in Manhattan. BEST CITY IN THE UNIVERSE NO DOUBT BOUT IT.
I admire you alot. You are very easy to understand! You look like you are a very pleasant person by the way you show warmth in your videos. You would be succesful in any career path you choose Jen!
I just waled down my block 71st between Amsterdam and Columbus. I took special care to notice how dirty it was or wasnt. It wasnt dirty. My super is out there everyday washing the sidewalk he keeps it very clean, thank you Jairo.
There are plenty of places in New York City that are not noisy. Maybe she is referring to large areas of Manhattan, but there are plenty of quiet neighborhoods in the outer boroughs. Even in Manhattan, is Inwood (neighborhood at the northern tip of Manhattan) noisy for example? Not last time I was there.
Probably 99% of tourists that go to NYC go to Manhattan. And for them the subways are very easy. Green lines on the east side, red lines on the west side on 7th ave, blue lines on the west side, 8th ave. Crosstown is south east to north west on the yellow lines. They can find the difference between local and express at any station. If a tourist is not on any of these lines, they Will get lost, when those lines go into the other boroughs.
I lived in New York for about 19 years. I was born there, and raised there, for a bit but my parents are immigrants. I've lived in Queens, Hauppauge and Roslyn Heights. I spent many, many days in Manhattan, aka the place where you get lured so far from home so that you're more likely to spend money to get access to your food supply, rest, etc. . It's really just a place to harvest money from people and make the hard-working, high-achieving and high-earning people pay more. New York would be the BEST place in the world if it weren't so expensive, and if the people were bit more empathetic, polite, thoughtful and attentive in their way of being around others. They also need to drop this mindset of "we have the highest standards so we function better". That's really not true, and the reason why is because there is so much RNG controlling outcomes for people that there is no real meritocracy there, so that New Yorkr exceptionalism thing is really just a facade, especially when New Yorker's don't even have one of the top average IQ's, educational statistics, etc. in the country. Just a fact, point-blank. It's a pretty low-class place overall as far as the people are concerned, and there is a glut of foppish people who can't wait to have their latest emotional episode or give some massive speech. When you're there, they basically just want you to work the whole week, and not really have the time to self-actualize. I can't stand that kind of living, and I need my self-actualization time.
So there are a few points I'll comment on as an engineer: 1) being dirty and loud are because of the crumbling infrastructure all over America, NYC is not unique here; 2) small, expensive apartments are due to artificial inflation of real estate which is directly linked to America's outdated economic model (crash coming soon!); 3) confusing subway system is another aspect of the aging infrastructure and political corruption (funds not properly allocated for modernization of subway system)...everything else is definitely subjective! New Yorkers are also lazy :p
Great points, thank you for commenting! Yes what can we do to help the crumbling infrastructure and the subway allocations... I've read we spend more on our subway than every other city but the money only fixes a much smaller percent of track for example, what do we do to fix that?
@@Jenniferobrien Honestly, having accountability in our political system at the local level is what the idealist in me would say, but truth be told, all the subway tickets and allocations are funneled to be used on other projects. Basically, the subway system generates revenue to be used elsewhere! A cash 🐄 if you will, and the only way to end this corrupt system is to press the reset button...but please, don't fret over this, I think our changing political landscape and demographics across America will compel our elected officials to change their ways and invest back in our country!
The bulk of the subway was built by private concessions ( the IRT & the BMT) between 1900 and 1920. They built hundreds of stations and thousands of miles of track in just 20 years, in spite of the fact that the work was done mostly by men with picks and shovels (there were no tunnel boring machines 100 years ago). The city added the IND lines between 1920 and 1940 (although these mostly replaced existing elevated lines with subways). The Second Avenue Subway was first proposed over 90 years ago and the MTA opened the first three stations in 2017. The number of trains throughout the system is also limited by an outdated signaling system (they don't even make replacement parts for it anymore). That's why trains always seem late. The system is operated for the benefit of corrupt contractors and transit unions, not the millions of commuters who rely on it. Privately operated subways in Japan and Korea are much cleaner, more efficient and modern. Someone needs to tell Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill Di Blasio. Another failure of socialism.
@@Jenniferobrien Thank you for your most informative videos!!! Iam a loser, I have depression, cannot work. What would life on Welfare be like in New York? Please reply to me.
the previous remains found in the new world suggest earlier visitors were able to keep it secret, do you share the best fishing holes with just any stranger to exploit, negligence?
Interestingly, where I live in Wales, UK. The prices are about the same other than the rent and eggs. Average rent where I live is abound $800-$1000 per month (changed to Dollars) and you can get 12 eggs for $2.50. Lunch depends on what, where etc but can easily be more. Taxis are about the same. Cinema tickets are about the same. UK is not a cheap place to live!
Really? That is interesting! I'm thinking of also maybe doing an even more broken down video on the real costs! Yes 12 eggs should definitely be closer to $2.50 - thanks for exchanging to USD for this comparison!
OK, watched the video now all the way through! That sub bell is handy for notifications! The noise of NYC, that's an interesting one. Because I remember it distinctly and loving it. Fire trucks in particular. NYC is the only place I have visited that lived up to my impressions of a place from TV, Movies etc. It's the only city that has never disappointed me. Stereotype missed though, food carts! They're everywhere! Never seen a place with more food carts! I practically lived off the $1 grilled hotdogs when I visited the first time.
Yes, the UK is quite expensive. Public transport is some of the most expensive in a first world country. In my town, Llandudno. There is a bit of a bubble. It's a very popular tourist location and we have a castle only 3 miles away. The mountains are in view and I live next to the sea. Oddly, you'd think there would be a lot of competition in the area business wise but somehow it just does not work that way. Eating out is incredibly expensive. A half decent meal for one is going to be £25. Which is oddly enough, $33! Cinema tickets at my local cinema are currently £10.90 each for an adult. (More for a 3d movie). Which is about $15. We have a tram line that goes up to the Great Orme on my doorstep. It's nearly $13 for a short ride up and down! I'd enjoy a more broken down costs vid. In particular, stores, local taxes, tricks. Is it worth buying from say B&H in NYC or travelling further out to avoid taxes if you are a tourist like me?
Agreed, thanks so much for clicking the bell button for notifications! Yes the noise is one that not enough people talk about but it's a big adjustment at first! Very interesting that it did live up to the TV and Movie versions! Thanks for sharing!
Oh really, didn't realize the UK public transport was so expensive! Wow, prices are so crazy, still do not know how restaurants and movies can charge so much! Sounds like such a lovely place with mountains, sea and a castle nearby! Need to explore more of the UK! Oh great point, broken down costs more and local taxes and tricks. Very helpful! Thank you!
I remember "floor-through" apartments in Manhattan. Many apartments ran from street to backyard and were affordable. This began to change in the later 1960s. As to New Yorkers always being in a hurry, true; unless you ask one for directions. New Yorkers have a long tradition of being happy to stop and provide directions to the out-of-towner.
Haha so many landlords get away with so much, it's so bad! But it's so expensive that we all deal with something in an apartment that is probably not OK almost anywhere else LOL!
I have been here and i went to the hilton garden hotel for a wedding and i loved it plus i even went on the subway, statue of liberty and the brooklyn bridge. #ilovenyc
I'm planning to visit New York this summer coming from Morocco 🇲🇦. Who will guide me to do it, I have to meet a friend at Pace University. Love from Morocco 🇲🇦 and God bless America 🇺🇸
Oh great question, yes we do have food carts even when it's cold, but you can also survive off dollar pizza (I did a full video on that) and also cheaper eats at small indoor markets too! :)
Some of these things are NOT true. I've been a native NY'er for almost 20 years. Not all of NYC is dirty & not everyone wears black. I mean, come on! Really??
Thanks for sharing Kristen, it’s definitely an overstatement and so hard to generalize but I make these statements in comparison to other cities so it isn’t all dirty but it can be dirtier than most cities! Thanks for watching! Any other local suggestions you think I should cover in a future video would love to hear any ideas you have! Thanks!
@@Jenniferobrien Thanks for your reply. There are so many places & facets of this beautiful city to cover! I'm thinking of putting together a channel myself! Something that shows how I live my life in NYC (since everyone lives their lives very differently here), with a focus on spots for locals & non-locals in many diverse areas.
I still remember the first time I traveled to New York City many decades ago before Apple Maps and cell phone popularity . I was at a traffic light downtown and the people were crossing the street on foot in crowds and I leaned out my driver’s side window and asked did anyone know where a place was and the people crossing the street just looked at me like I was nuts and no one replied. I like New Yorkers and if you travel in the North part of New York State it is beautiful scenery.
OMG where do you get eggs for that? I just paid $4.50 for eggs here in my local convenience store :( it was convenient though haha! Yes going to restaurants can be so expensive!
Like your video! It is so true of what you said. But in Astoria where I was born and raised as a kid the rents were cheaper back then. Now they are really expensive and the food is expensive as well. My cousin still lives in Astoria, Queens and he says that parking is expensive too.
Haha yeah but it’s still confusing! Other city’s maps and everything can be so much easier to read, I learned especially after going to the New York Transit Museum!
Thanks for the reply. I’m so looking forward to visiting NYC. My friends and I are flying into Logan Boston, staying in East Boston, and driving to Williamsburg three days later.
I know right! $3,000 would be for a one bedroom in most nicer areas! I usually pay around $1,200/month though to rent a bedroom in an apartment with roommates!
"If someone is from upstate New York, long island, or New Jersey and they say they're a new yorker" if your referring to westchester, that's not upstate New York. NY is a huge state. And what're you even talking , the lower Hudson valley and long island are still in New york(the state) and still in the nyc metro area, if not part of NYC, so how would they not be new yorkers? New jersey is another state. I think you mean when a person from westchester, long island, or even NJ would say they're from New York city.
I’m a New Yorker I’ve lived here my entire life and definitely the staff you said in the video are true especially the one that everyone is in a hurry you have to move fast especially since I work near time square
Westchester, Long Island, and upstate are also part of New york (the state), so I don't see any reason for city folks to tell me I'm not New Yorker. I would agree on them for New Jersey tho since that's another state.
So I’m from Texas and both of my parents are surgeons. I’m now a surgeon. My brother and little sister are also. Or my sister is brand new to the game. But my parents did a ton of work in Manhattan and Brooklyn. I fell in love with the city #1 the people are super nice. In Texas I got called names as a child cause I had blonde frosted tips. my mom is blonde and I wanted to have a little bit of blonde. I got my hair color from my dad. Anyway if you don’t do everything right the old fucks and some young. They will let you know about it! . I was like 6yrs old. In the city they accept you or that’s always been my experience. #2 they do a lot of what we call southern engineering they just call it jerry rigging I think. And so I like that about them. Everybody in Texas won’t ever read a owners manual they just figure it out. And that’s how all my native NY friends are. So I loved that. And I don’t have a Texas accent but I use all the slangs. All of my NY friends over the years pick them up immediately and they use them more than I do just by accident. They say (yall, fixin to, Coke, hissy fit, doin,flyin,tryin, all get-out,) and ive picked up a bunch of Manhattan, Brooklyn, queens, slang. What our slangs have in common is just taking words and cutting them down just big enough to understand. Boston has some big slangs. Like wth is the point of slangs if it’s a mile long. In new York they have short slangs as we do in Texas. And we use each other’s. I have 43 friends that come to Lubbock 2x per year and I go up there 12-20x per year depending on my work. And I have since I was born. My apt is in Manhattan but I spend a lot of time in queens and Brooklyn. Anyway I go to Brooklyn and the waiter will say what would you like to drink and I say. What kind of coke do you have? She said dr.pepper,sprite,coke,Vanilla Coke,Diet Coke,diet drpepper etc. I say. Oh I’ll take sprite. And it’s just like Texas. She knew what I meant. Every other state in the north or west they say oh we have regular and Diet Coke. Haha which is fine! I adjust for them. But it’s awesome to find a slang I can use up there. So to all the native New Yorkers, I love you! And I’ll be up there in a week at presb hospital. I’m a pedi trauma surgeon so you don’t wanna see me or it’s bad.
not everything is expensive in NYC. Rent, parking, transit and other services are because of government regulation but stuff you buy in most chain stores are cheap because of competition and illegal alien owed business's working off the books.
Could you tell people you are talking about Manhattan only and even so only certain parts of Manhattan. Try living in Bayside, or Little Neck where it's quieter and more normal than what you see on tv.
1. If you know where to look you can still get something cheap. 2. yes, but again, outer boroughs are ok actually. 3. yes, get used to it. 4. agreed lol 5. um, it's manhattan vs outer boroughs. 6. totally not true....... but honestly, nobody cares. 7. in the beginning yes. 8. lol 9. I thought it's just me 10. agreed too lol 11. can't disagree on this one. Thanks for your insight, have a good day.
$55 dollar jeans is actually cheap oh and you forgot to put the price of cigarettes up there that would actually give the best idea on how expensive it is
Many of them remind me of Berlin. Berlin is dirty, Berlin is noisy and there are a lot of tourists too but Berlin and New York is popular. Can you tell me why? I like the spirit in a big City, like the different people but i can imagine living in the countryside.
Yes some do walk fast and some don’t. The ones who walk fast are Smart People who are never in your way unlike People from the South. Where I live in Florida, people don’t even know how to drive or walk like a New Yorker! Florida has plenty walking dead people! And I’m from Boston Originally.
I got lucky my rent is rair priced, my apartment is pretty big and I have a closet lol. Idk where they shop but I've never paid $5 for eggs. The rest of the video is pretty accurate
Yes, I have a mostly black wardrobe, but I've never been anywhere else where you can feel perfectly comfortable wearing just about ANYTHING. It's a wonderful place for self expression.
Agreed, it really is such a beautiful place to wear whatever you feel! Thanks for watching!
Born & raised in NYC (Manhattan) but the rent is astronomical for certain "good" areas. I make a good living but the rent & parking is getting worse & worse, that's why I moved to upstate NY for a better affordable life, So I just drive to NYC everyday for work.
Totally understandable prices are astronomically increasing, so hard!
"If you can make it here you can make it everywhere". I'm a full time traveller and I've seen many places in the Western world, I must say though, that NYC is the most challenging place I've visited/lived in. You can make every dream of yours become true, but it's so hard to actually accomplish any little goal. So if you are tough and tenacious enough to keep pushing and finally succeeding here, every other place in the world will seem so easy to settle in. Stay tough and keep working hard!!! That's why I love this city!!!
“ New York is expensive” London - hold my beer!
Haha best comment
Jennifer O'Brien I can’t wait to visit next yea, first time in New York (I live in London) found a great hotel between the flatiron building and the Empire State Building, two iconic structures. Do you do private tours or recommend anyone? I promise I’m not a pervert or weirdo. 🤣🇬🇧🇺🇸
I've been to both places and N Y C is defiantly cheaper !
If apartments are small
It’s cause you are living in the city
If anything
Best place to live always it probably has to be 20-30 minutes from train station
I lived in the Bronx and Queens
Probably cheapest place is 1hour from the city
Jennifer Victoria Staten Island ain’t that bad either. Source: Live near the St. George ferry
I’m an hour from nyc in northern westchester
This is also true. I'm on the boarder of Brooklyn/Queens and the rents significantly lower for the size.
Hey! I’m a New Yorker, and this video is SO TRUE!!! I think the honest way you talk about is refreshing and adorable. 😄
Sincerely,
David Storey (Flatiron area)
David Storey oh yay I am so glad to hear it thank you so much! Appreciate it! :) love flatiron area!
This video is right on! I'm born and raised in NYC and will never leave. You got it all correct!
Damn right we're always right, right guys?
Always right no matter what! Yes, you are correct!
What a bunch of egotystical bullshit.
@@harvin.g4485 its a joke
@@harvin.g4485 I agree 👍
fuck yeah
Jennifer, as a native NY'er (NYC that is) I love your channel. Just found out about it via the link at Action Kid's channel. I'm very proud of my city and I consider it a blessing whenever I get a chance to assist a visitor to my town. It makes my day.
Always amusing to see these as a native New Yorker. Surreal to think of how cheap rents and property were even 10-15 years ago compared to now
I'm headed there in October and I can't wait. I love the challenge
Great thanks so much!
I really like #9 - "Thou shalt lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way" - I know the world isn't perfect, BUT - i generally don't mind if my time and/or money is being wasted as long as I'm the one doing wasting. On the other hand, if I wanna take my time with something, I try to get outta everyone else's way.
Yes so true just don’t stand in the way! :)
They wanna go faster ? I just tell 'em to f'n grow some wings and fly .
Being a New Yorker is a created attitude, shaped by your surroundings. No matter where you go, you will always be a New Yorker, your wardrobe will still be black, you will walk with a purpose and you will always be right.
Yes completely agreed!
-average rent elsewhere isn't $3,000?? I better move to another state, I've lived in New York for too long!
-also, 90% of my closet is black... I only wear light-colored shirts if I'm meeting someone for the first time!
Yes I also better move to save money but I can’t imagine! Love this city too much! Omg I feel you with wearing a lot of black! Smart to wear light-colored shirts when meeting someone new love that! Thanks so much for your awesome comment!
I lived in Seattle and San Francisco...yes, any big city will be a pretty penny. But Phoenix is SUPER cheap...but no one wants to live there. lol
I've moved to NYC from SF. It's CHEAPER in NYC to rent.
And because I don't need a car, my monthly costs are lower as it would be $1600 to operate (fuel, insurance, maintenance) and park a car in a reserved space/garage (I'm not going to play parking Bingo every time I come home). No more 72 mile r/t daily commute for work.
I'm in the process of buying a co-op apt to get out of the brutal rental market. The scams with broker's fees and other BS is horrible to deal with.
16 for a single and 18 for a two bed is like the average price for a not so great apartment in a middle-upper class town.
...in NJ I meant to add.
I’m a Kansan. A one bedroom apartment is rarely more than $450 a month, and you can find a place for less than three hundred. I spend more on gas than I do rent.
As a native New Yorker I have to confess that this video is accurate. I also think that New York is more creative, kinder, and better off with you living here
Just spent week in NY and found it very clean
It seems you are focusing on the borough of Manhattan, not New York City in total. Not all NYC apartments are expensive, nor small. It depends on availability, and location. It is expensive to live here, but salaries are also higher than in other places to make up for the expense.
Yes well said but I just looked at about 20 more apartments all over not just Manhattan and they’re all expensive for what space you get though farther out does get you a little more for sure!
Hah, I’m a New Yorker and I will not leave!!
Kelly Wu 👍❤️
Wooo
Don't leave its the best city in the world!!
You should. Experience the world
Freddy Ward They mean not moving anywhere else
Subscribed because your energy is amazing, but how does an argument between 2 new yorkers end though, if they are both right? 🤔😆
Not well. Lots of yelling. Hands being thrown all around.. it ain't pretty. Lol
Just constant middle fingers thrown at one another aggressively. No words exchanged.
One of them is gonna die "right".
Give you a little tip from a lifelong Italian New Yorker. The all black dress came from Italians. Traditionally when people die we wear black and once this starts it never ends. You lose one, start wearing black to represent mourning, then people in your life continue to die so you end up just adopting black as the normal lifelong attire. Started in the roaring 20s here. My grandmother wore black from the time she got here during WW2 to the time she died.
I must be an odd ball...I’ve lived in every borough. ..❤️
That’s awesome and not odd wish I could try more boroughs!
I live in Hawaii and I been to New York two times in 2019, they say Hawaii is paradise, but I like New York more then here.
Wow, they do say the grass always looks greener from the other side... Hawaii would be a dream!
nyc is pretty expensive, though jeans being 55 dollars? no way. i bought some levi's pants for 25.59 each(though there was discount involved) and they are amazing.
Oh nice!!! Yes this is an average to it includes the highest and lowest averaging to that though it is definitely possible to get jeans for closer to $25 as you mentioned!
@@Jenniferobrien I'm gonna go to nyc around the 22nd of November around xmas time. Any recommendations for that period for me to visit? Keep up the good work!
Interesting facts. Thank you. I will visit NYC someday :)
LIVEst - Live from ESTONIA yay glad you liked it thanks so much! :)
I started watching your videos for some tips while I was on vacation in New York last week. My vacations over and I'm no longer in NYC but I still find myself watching your videos just cause haha. Great stuff!
Oh so glad to hear you were watching my videos for helpful tips for your vacation last week, and so glad you're still watching, thank you so much! Really appreciate your comment! :)
Move to Jersey City NJ. It has lower rents and it can be reached by the Port Authority Trans Hudson subway on 6th Ave. Take the train to Grove St. station. There are real estate offices around, plus the Journal Square Bus Terminal. Where there are local and interurban buses to surrounding towns and buses to Atlantic City where there are buses to Center City Philadelphia.
We upstaters are territorial too. I hate to remind people all the time. I’m from NY but do not live in NYC!
I’m proud to be UNY born and bread. I love the city and hope it gets its glory back after the pandemic.
I think it is so expensive because of mass tourism.
We come, we pay the extortionate prices.
Plus, the expected tipping just makes it even more expensive for tourists ... but still we come, because it is such a good place to visit.
NYC was bought in beads?! WHAT! This video is so interesting!
Sarah Funk haha yes can you believe it! What a deal LOL! Thank you so much! :)
Actually, I believe there were two sales but the second one was a scam! That second one was from another guy who approached a second group of Indians and offered them money and they accepted the offer and left. He found out later that he got “taken”.
Hey Jennifer i'm doing my internship for 3 months at New York. Where is the best place to meet new people?
Anne K The story was one group (not sure which one) were visiting Manhattan to hunt and they ‘sold’ the island to the Dutch.
Life-long NYer and I realized the other day that all I wear is black. I have all these aspirations of wearing other colors, so I buy all these pieces of clothes that come in a variety of colors. And then I never wear them. I admit defeat.
The noise thing isn’t really true. It depends on where you live. Haha! Just as I wrote that I realized I could hear the faint sound of a fire truck. I honestly don’t notice the noise, so maybe you have a point after all. Great video! I’m always curious to see how others view my hometown
soooo, new york is basically just london but in america (if u think New York is expensive, you haven’t been to london 🥱)
Great video Jen! Very informative and helpful
Thank you so much! Really appreciate it! :)
You probably forgot to mention that nothing fazes us we won’t really be so surprised about seeing something “crazy” 😂😂😂
Oh God. This explains so much Why I don't own anything in light colors. Yes, everyone is in a rush because getting to places can take a while(look at the subway if you don't believe me). The city is sometimes too big for it's own good.
AND I LOVE IT! ! I live three hours away from NYC and every weekend I cannot wait to be in be there. ..especially in Manhattan. BEST CITY IN THE UNIVERSE NO DOUBT BOUT IT.
Thanks Jen... getting to all your videos slowly but surely, and loving them. Cheers Steve
Yay thank you so much for your support and watching my videos! Welcome! :)
I admire you alot. You are very easy to understand! You look like you are a very pleasant person by the way you show warmth in your videos. You would be succesful in any career path you choose Jen!
I just waled down my block 71st between Amsterdam and Columbus. I took special care to notice how dirty it was or wasnt. It wasnt dirty. My super is out there everyday washing the sidewalk he keeps it very clean, thank you Jairo.
There are plenty of places in New York City that are not noisy. Maybe she is referring to large areas of Manhattan, but there are plenty of quiet neighborhoods in the outer boroughs. Even in Manhattan, is Inwood (neighborhood at the northern tip of Manhattan) noisy for example? Not last time I was there.
Wow you're so cool, thank you for your sharing.
New York City is only expensive in certain parts . Ex: I can buy lunch for $5.
Agreed, oh where? I am thinking of doing a $5 lunch video! :)
You can eat cheaper, though not necessarily better, in NYC than in some other cities.
Yes well said much cheaper but not necessarily better! Thanks for your comment and for subscribing! :)
yes to new adventures!!
Hey thank you Jennifer..Regularly I am watching ur videos n Expecting many more.👍
Oh yay thanks so much for watching just published a new video on Nostalgic vintage trains it was so fun, and more to come around NYC for the holidays!
I Love NYC... littlely... And YES is the best city around the world.. great job!!
Yes agreed thanks so much!
Jen you speak the truth! Great video!
Daniel&Naz yay so glad you think so thanks so much!
Jen, I guarantee that your channel will blow up very very soon. Keep producing high-quality content. Represent for the O'Brien's!
Thank you so much Nate, really appreciate your thoughtful comment! Will do! Shout out to my fellow O'Brien, love your educational videos!
Well it still hasn't
Visiting in August from Newfoundland Canada. Can’t wait!
Probably 99% of tourists that go to NYC go to Manhattan. And for them the subways are very easy. Green lines on the east side, red lines on the west side on 7th ave, blue lines on the west side, 8th ave. Crosstown is south east to north west on the yellow lines. They can find the difference between local and express at any station. If a tourist is not on any of these lines, they Will get lost, when those lines go into the other boroughs.
I lived in New York for about 19 years. I was born there, and raised there, for a bit but my parents are immigrants. I've lived in Queens, Hauppauge and Roslyn Heights. I spent many, many days in Manhattan, aka the place where you get lured so far from home so that you're more likely to spend money to get access to your food supply, rest, etc. . It's really just a place to harvest money from people and make the hard-working, high-achieving and high-earning people pay more.
New York would be the BEST place in the world if it weren't so expensive, and if the people were bit more empathetic, polite, thoughtful and attentive in their way of being around others. They also need to drop this mindset of "we have the highest standards so we function better". That's really not true, and the reason why is because there is so much RNG controlling outcomes for people that there is no real meritocracy there, so that New Yorkr exceptionalism thing is really just a facade, especially when New Yorker's don't even have one of the top average IQ's, educational statistics, etc. in the country. Just a fact, point-blank.
It's a pretty low-class place overall as far as the people are concerned, and there is a glut of foppish people who can't wait to have their latest emotional episode or give some massive speech.
When you're there, they basically just want you to work the whole week, and not really have the time to self-actualize. I can't stand that kind of living, and I need my self-actualization time.
So there are a few points I'll comment on as an engineer: 1) being dirty and loud are because of the crumbling infrastructure all over America, NYC is not unique here; 2) small, expensive apartments are due to artificial inflation of real estate which is directly linked to America's outdated economic model (crash coming soon!); 3) confusing subway system is another aspect of the aging infrastructure and political corruption (funds not properly allocated for modernization of subway system)...everything else is definitely subjective! New Yorkers are also lazy :p
Great points, thank you for commenting! Yes what can we do to help the crumbling infrastructure and the subway allocations... I've read we spend more on our subway than every other city but the money only fixes a much smaller percent of track for example, what do we do to fix that?
@@Jenniferobrien Honestly, having accountability in our political system at the local level is what the idealist in me would say, but truth be told, all the subway tickets and allocations are funneled to be used on other projects. Basically, the subway system generates revenue to be used elsewhere! A cash 🐄 if you will, and the only way to end this corrupt system is to press the reset button...but please, don't fret over this, I think our changing political landscape and demographics across America will compel our elected officials to change their ways and invest back in our country!
The bulk of the subway was built by private concessions ( the IRT & the BMT) between 1900 and 1920. They built hundreds of stations and thousands of miles of track in just 20 years, in spite of the fact that the work was done mostly by men with picks and shovels (there were no tunnel boring machines 100 years ago). The city added the IND lines between 1920 and 1940 (although these mostly replaced existing elevated lines with subways). The Second Avenue Subway was first proposed over 90 years ago and the MTA opened the first three stations in 2017. The number of trains throughout the system is also limited by an outdated signaling system (they don't even make replacement parts for it anymore). That's why trains always seem late.
The system is operated for the benefit of corrupt contractors and transit unions, not the millions of commuters who rely on it. Privately operated subways in Japan and Korea are much cleaner, more efficient and modern. Someone needs to tell Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill Di Blasio. Another failure of socialism.
@@Jenniferobrien Thank you for your most informative videos!!! Iam a loser, I have depression, cannot work. What would life on Welfare be like in New York? Please reply to me.
the previous remains found in the new world suggest earlier visitors were able to keep it secret, do you share the best fishing holes with just any stranger to exploit, negligence?
same as australia
Awww loved visiting Australia!
Interestingly, where I live in Wales, UK. The prices are about the same other than the rent and eggs. Average rent where I live is abound $800-$1000 per month (changed to Dollars) and you can get 12 eggs for $2.50. Lunch depends on what, where etc but can easily be more. Taxis are about the same. Cinema tickets are about the same.
UK is not a cheap place to live!
Really? That is interesting! I'm thinking of also maybe doing an even more broken down video on the real costs! Yes 12 eggs should definitely be closer to $2.50 - thanks for exchanging to USD for this comparison!
OK, watched the video now all the way through! That sub bell is handy for notifications! The noise of NYC, that's an interesting one. Because I remember it distinctly and loving it. Fire trucks in particular. NYC is the only place I have visited that lived up to my impressions of a place from TV, Movies etc. It's the only city that has never disappointed me.
Stereotype missed though, food carts! They're everywhere! Never seen a place with more food carts! I practically lived off the $1 grilled hotdogs when I visited the first time.
Yes, the UK is quite expensive. Public transport is some of the most expensive in a first world country. In my town, Llandudno. There is a bit of a bubble. It's a very popular tourist location and we have a castle only 3 miles away. The mountains are in view and I live next to the sea. Oddly, you'd think there would be a lot of competition in the area business wise but somehow it just does not work that way. Eating out is incredibly expensive. A half decent meal for one is going to be £25. Which is oddly enough, $33! Cinema tickets at my local cinema are currently £10.90 each for an adult. (More for a 3d movie). Which is about $15.
We have a tram line that goes up to the Great Orme on my doorstep. It's nearly $13 for a short ride up and down!
I'd enjoy a more broken down costs vid. In particular, stores, local taxes, tricks. Is it worth buying from say B&H in NYC or travelling further out to avoid taxes if you are a tourist like me?
Agreed, thanks so much for clicking the bell button for notifications! Yes the noise is one that not enough people talk about but it's a big adjustment at first! Very interesting that it did live up to the TV and Movie versions! Thanks for sharing!
Oh really, didn't realize the UK public transport was so expensive! Wow, prices are so crazy, still do not know how restaurants and movies can charge so much! Sounds like such a lovely place with mountains, sea and a castle nearby! Need to explore more of the UK! Oh great point, broken down costs more and local taxes and tricks. Very helpful! Thank you!
I remember "floor-through" apartments in Manhattan. Many apartments ran from street to backyard and were affordable. This began to change in the later 1960s. As to New Yorkers always being in a hurry, true; unless you ask one for directions. New Yorkers have a long tradition of being happy to stop and provide directions to the out-of-towner.
I visited last yr and everything is true...i want to go back. Love the video. Hellooo from 🇿🇦
Thank you so much! Yes hope you get to come back! Hello from nyc! :)
Thanks for sharing! How long have you lived in NYC?
Anytime! All my life within about 10 Miles! Then went to university in Boston!
I didn't know about the apartment situation.....crazy!! ~ Robert
Yes, the apartments are so crazy! Thank you!
As a New Yorker these are true, but that fun fact about it being bought for 24 dollars is a complete myth.
*I love how you tell us what's "technically illegal" so great* but also bad! no windows, geez! 😂
Haha so many landlords get away with so much, it's so bad! But it's so expensive that we all deal with something in an apartment that is probably not OK almost anywhere else LOL!
I have been here and i went to the hilton garden hotel for a wedding and i loved it plus i even went on the subway, statue of liberty and the brooklyn bridge. #ilovenyc
Girl, New York ain't dirty, it's well seasoned.
I'm planning to visit New York this summer coming from Morocco 🇲🇦. Who will guide me to do it, I have to meet a friend at Pace University.
Love from Morocco 🇲🇦 and God bless America 🇺🇸
*the REAL question is though...do y'all have food carts in Dec?? cos those are my survival tactics in Portland* 😂
Oh great question, yes we do have food carts even when it's cold, but you can also survive off dollar pizza (I did a full video on that) and also cheaper eats at small indoor markets too! :)
Thank you Jennifer.
Anytime, happy to share! :)
Some of these things are NOT true. I've been a native NY'er for almost 20 years. Not all of NYC is dirty & not everyone wears black. I mean, come on! Really??
Thanks for sharing Kristen, it’s definitely an overstatement and so hard to generalize but I make these statements in comparison to other cities so it isn’t all dirty but it can be dirtier than most cities! Thanks for watching! Any other local suggestions you think I should cover in a future video would love to hear any ideas you have! Thanks!
@@Jenniferobrien Thanks for your reply. There are so many places & facets of this beautiful city to cover! I'm thinking of putting together a channel myself! Something that shows how I live my life in NYC (since everyone lives their lives very differently here), with a focus on spots for locals & non-locals in many diverse areas.
I am a New Yorker and these are so true
I still remember the first time I traveled to New York City many decades ago before Apple Maps and cell phone popularity . I was at a traffic light downtown and the people were crossing the street on foot in crowds and I leaned out my driver’s side window and asked did anyone know where a place was and the people crossing the street just looked at me like I was nuts and no one replied. I like New Yorkers and if you travel in the North part of New York State it is beautiful scenery.
bro #6, is me already. And I walk fast and am blunt and never sleep.sounds like my city
Perfect, you will fit right in, LOL, love it! :)
I had to comment: you are seriously LOVELY! and with a personality to match.....
Oh thank you so much, really appreciate every single comment! :)
Manhattan isn't only new york. you got the 5 boroughs, upstate and long island. js.
I am planning to visit this November 2018 and I am going through your videos and thanks a lot.
I just paid $1.50 for 18 eggs, and gas is $2.34. I am happy here. However, going to restaurants is expensive anywhere.
OMG where do you get eggs for that? I just paid $4.50 for eggs here in my local convenience store :( it was convenient though haha! Yes going to restaurants can be so expensive!
Like your video! It is so true of what you said. But in Astoria where I was born and raised as a kid the rents were cheaper back then. Now they are really expensive and the food is expensive as well. My cousin still lives in Astoria, Queens and he says that parking is expensive too.
I visited NYC once and absolutely loved it !!! Great video.
Oh so glad, thank you so much! Appreciate it!
There are maps is every single subway station and there are signs and arrows everywhere leading you to the correct platform. How is that confusing?
Haha yeah but it’s still confusing! Other city’s maps and everything can be so much easier to read, I learned especially after going to the New York Transit Museum!
Your style is bright and friendly.
I like your videos. Thanks!
Thank you for watching!
Staying in Williamsburg for the NYC portion of my trip.
Love Williamsburg, the best borough! :)
Thanks for the reply. I’m so looking forward to visiting NYC. My friends and I are flying into Logan Boston, staying in East Boston, and driving to Williamsburg three days later.
Average rent 3000 USD??? A month? That is actually crazy, how big would that apartment be? Great video 😃👍🏽
I know right! $3,000 would be for a one bedroom in most nicer areas! I usually pay around $1,200/month though to rent a bedroom in an apartment with roommates!
So I suppose you'd have a problem paying $500/mo. for parking.
Scott Edson most New Yorkers do not own a car because of NYC’s extensive public transportation system.
Well I do. I rarely drive in town, but I find it comforting that I can call the garage and be on my way out of town in less than fifteen minutes.
"If someone is from upstate New York, long island, or New Jersey and they say they're a new yorker" if your referring to westchester, that's not upstate New York. NY is a huge state. And what're you even talking , the lower Hudson valley and long island are still in New york(the state) and still in the nyc metro area, if not part of NYC, so how would they not be new yorkers? New jersey is another state. I think you mean when a person from westchester, long island, or even NJ would say they're from New York city.
A small house in Long Island is $500,000 to $700,000
I’m a New Yorker I’ve lived here my entire life and definitely the staff you said in the video are true especially the one that everyone is in a hurry you have to move fast especially since I work near time square
Westchester, Long Island, and upstate are also part of New york (the state), so I don't see any reason for city folks to tell me I'm not New Yorker. I would agree on them for New Jersey tho since that's another state.
So I’m from Texas and both of my parents are surgeons. I’m now a surgeon. My brother and little sister are also. Or my sister is brand new to the game. But my parents did a ton of work in Manhattan and Brooklyn. I fell in love with the city #1 the people are super nice. In Texas I got called names as a child cause I had blonde frosted tips. my mom is blonde and I wanted to have a little bit of blonde. I got my hair color from my dad. Anyway if you don’t do everything right the old fucks and some young. They will let you know about it! . I was like 6yrs old. In the city they accept you or that’s always been my experience. #2 they do a lot of what we call southern engineering they just call it jerry rigging I think. And so I like that about them. Everybody in Texas won’t ever read a owners manual they just figure it out. And that’s how all my native NY friends are. So I loved that. And I don’t have a Texas accent but I use all the slangs. All of my NY friends over the years pick them up immediately and they use them more than I do just by accident. They say (yall, fixin to, Coke, hissy fit, doin,flyin,tryin, all get-out,) and ive picked up a bunch of Manhattan, Brooklyn, queens, slang. What our slangs have in common is just taking words and cutting them down just big enough to understand. Boston has some big slangs. Like wth is the point of slangs if it’s a mile long. In new York they have short slangs as we do in Texas. And we use each other’s. I have 43 friends that come to Lubbock 2x per year and I go up there 12-20x per year depending on my work. And I have since I was born. My apt is in Manhattan but I spend a lot of time in queens and Brooklyn. Anyway I go to Brooklyn and the waiter will say what would you like to drink and I say. What kind of coke do you have? She said dr.pepper,sprite,coke,Vanilla Coke,Diet Coke,diet drpepper etc. I say. Oh I’ll take sprite. And it’s just like Texas. She knew what I meant. Every other state in the north or west they say oh we have regular and Diet Coke. Haha which is fine! I adjust for them. But it’s awesome to find a slang I can use up there. So to all the native New Yorkers, I love you! And I’ll be up there in a week at presb hospital. I’m a pedi trauma surgeon so you don’t wanna see me or it’s bad.
1. Expensive
HELL YEAH IT IS, SHIT MAN
Idk how I still live in NYC
Haha same! And it just keeps going up unfortunately!
@@Jenniferobrien I know 😭
YO! BACK DOOR!!!
could you suggest places to visit near baltimore or at the most on the eastern coast? thank you
not everything is expensive in NYC. Rent, parking, transit and other services are because of government regulation but stuff you buy in most chain stores are cheap because of competition and illegal alien owed business's working off the books.
New Yorkers love pizza 🍕
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I saw ur video 3mnts ago when i came NY, after 3 mnts i cay say, you are right, its expensive, dirty busy city, apartment are tiny, pplz wear black.
Could you tell people you are talking about Manhattan only and even so only certain parts of Manhattan. Try living in Bayside, or Little Neck where it's quieter and more normal than what you see on tv.
1. If you know where to look you can still get something cheap.
2. yes, but again, outer boroughs are ok actually.
3. yes, get used to it.
4. agreed lol
5. um, it's manhattan vs outer boroughs.
6. totally not true....... but honestly, nobody cares.
7. in the beginning yes.
8. lol
9. I thought it's just me
10. agreed too lol
11. can't disagree on this one.
Thanks for your insight, have a good day.
Thanks so much appreciate it!
$55 dollar jeans is actually cheap oh and you forgot to put the price of cigarettes up there that would actually give the best idea on how expensive it is
Many of them remind me of Berlin.
Berlin is dirty, Berlin is noisy and there are a lot of tourists too but Berlin and New York is popular. Can you tell me why?
I like the spirit in a big City, like the different people but i can imagine living in the countryside.
Yes some do walk fast and some don’t. The ones who walk fast are Smart People who are never in your way unlike People from the South.
Where I live in Florida, people don’t even know how to drive or walk like a New Yorker! Florida has plenty walking dead people! And I’m from Boston Originally.
Awesome, can you tell us the differences among the accents in Nyc?
Maybe that's the reason Woody Allen did 'Manhattan' in B&W
I got lucky my rent is rair priced, my apartment is pretty big and I have a closet lol. Idk where they shop but I've never paid $5 for eggs. The rest of the video is pretty accurate
Yyyyyeeeeerrrrrrr I'm here.....love this