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Originally Posted by Triumph36
'you can't drive anywhere'
wow, that sucks, you mean when i'm out drinking with my friends i can't get home by driving myself? that's awful. what a sick beat.
no, I mean instead of driving to work, lunch, your (girl)friend's apartment, a baseball game, dinner, the airport, etc. you have to take the subway with hundreds of other people or pay for a cab. Both of these options are less comfortable and less convenient than walking out of your apartment or work and getting in your car 50 feet away and parking at your destination while controlling the temperature and comfort. Also, you can't very easily take 10 minutes and go pick up food and bring it back because you have to either walk to somewhere nearby (thereby limiting your choices significantly), order delivery (thereby increasing cost and still limiting choices), or take a subway/cab. It is also an absolute nightmare to go shopping anywhere that will lead to a purchase of stuff that is more than you can comfortably carry. Its basically impossible to go buy a liquor and a few cases of beer without 2 friends coming with you. Forget about going to the grocery store or costco unless you plan to go everyday.
Cabs are standard when you drink, but driving is inarguably more comfortable and faster if you have any sort of parking and roads that are sufficient to accomodate the population.
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Originally Posted by Triumph36
anyway New York is not for everyone, and it is most certainly not for someone who would rate Atlanta as a better city. A nightmare of urban sprawl where traffic is horrible, mass transit is non-existent, and half the usable land in 'urban areas' are used for above-ground parking garages? Sign me up.
traffic in ATL is better than traffic in NYC in my experience. Its basically impossible to drive in NYC and traffic laws are loosely obeyed on a good day. Also, when people say ATL is sprawled theyre including the suburbs. NYC is sprawled too if you include NJ and CT as part of the "city." I am able to get everywhere I need to go in ATL (about a 10 mi radius) in 15 min or less. I can get to work in 7 min in the morning despite it being 2.5 mi away. Mass transit is nice when drinking (but it seems to close too early to be usable most of the time anyways and a cab in NYC is harder to get than one in ATL). Why would anyone prefer to take a subway to work instead of driving? It makes no sense.