Originally Posted by
DQRider
And everything I see in the media shows me an overcrowded, vulgar, angry, and unwelcoming place. But everyone who posts to the Bike Forums from New York City seems to be smart, reasonable, and witty. What am I missing here?
I feel the same way as you, I've spent my whole life in the Great Plains or the Midwest.
My biggest surprise is always how much green space I see in our NYC Bikeforums members' pictures!
It shouldn't be since I feel like access to green spaces is a fundamental need of human beings and they will design that into wherever they live, but I still can't get the stereotypical concrete monolith idea of NYC out of my head.
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