[werber]

I thought this seemed fair till i read it was in flushing. Nyc is the worst, but, if you’re American where else can you get a city that international and walkable

[alephnerd]

Chicago, DC, Boston, SF, Philly (depending on "international"), Portland (walkable but not really international - it's just 90s-2000s white Americans doing 90s-2000s white American stuff, you'd think Kurt Cobain still roams the earth)

Though if you want affordability, that leaves Chicago and Philly.

NYC sucks in that sense though, as a lot of industries that are conglomerated in NYC haven't ensured salaries keep up with those in High Finance and Tech

At least Boston has relatively affordable suburbs and Bay Area level wages, DC has plenty of federal jobs that pay competitively, and SF has the larger tech industry (which is still going great despite a couple high profile layoffs)

[homefree]

Miami? I was impressed with Miami when I visited. Lots of high rise residential housing, sane political governance, nice downtown, and pretty walkable.

[micromacrofoot]

boston suburbs aren’t walkable though, if you’re not remote you’ve got a minimum 40 min commute each way

[RHSeeger]

> Nyc is the worst

I love NYC. I don't mind going into Boston or such for the day, but there's nothing like NYC on east coast. It's fantastic.

[throw__away7391]

Yes. In the US, sure. Compared to cities outside the US it is horrible. Less walkable than most, food is ok if you know where to go but nothing special and also super expensive like everything else, aggressive drug addicts wandering the streets, high crime including random acts of violence for literally no reason at all, incessant aggressive honking at all hours of the night, even when you are paying $5k a month for your 1 bedroom apartment it the apartment itself is not a nice place to live in terms of things like sunlight and ventilation, and the city itself is super corrupt. There’s a million folks in unions and other arrangements who are “grandfathered in” to all sorts of privileges that are used to secure their vote. The city has an astronomical budget, all the money is going to more or less bribe key voting blocks. It has been this way for well over a century.

The thing that NYC really has going for it is that the rest of the country is a giant suburban dystopia.

[alephnerd]

I think he meant "the worst" in the same way that Britta is the worst.

This kind of reflexive defensiveness by some New Yorkers feels annoying to the rest of us

[plagiarist]

Oh. Yeah I would also probably pay $15k for $1k rent if I intended to stay in NYC long term. You'd have positive ROI on that before the end of year two.

But Flushing is too far from Manhattan and too close to La Guardia. I'd gladly pay more not to listen to that shit all the time, the car noise in the city is bad enough.

[CPLX]

Presumably you’re not Chinese. If you are then it’s the center of everything.

[whynotminot]

San Francisco. International and walkable, good transport.

The homeless are a problem, but New York has them too.

[kevin_thibedeau]

New York's homeless have to contend with winter. That makes for a far less bleak street scene.

[Solvency]

SF homeless isn't even REMOTELY comparable to NYC, and I've lived in both cities for 8 years each. Not even the same planet.

[charlie0]

Well, if it's "international" you're looking for, there are other cities abroad like that. But I get your point, the US has very few walkable cities with high levels of diversity.