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What do you think is the best US city to live in or near, and why? (sh.itjust.works)
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I'm pondering a move, and I'm interested in what things people like and what factors y'all consider important.

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[–] -1 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

I meant the affordability issue, in case that wasn't clear. It's not an issue of me getting paid more for the work I do, because I'm not working anymore, and am on a fixed income that's probably going to be crippled anyway by Fed cuts under the Orange administration.

Please chill with the sales pitch, buddy. I'm not moving to NYC.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago*

    Affordability is an issue everywhere, not just in NYC. And it’s not a “sales pitch,” either. Any city in the country, there are probably more and better safety nets for someone who has lost work and is on disability in New York City than anywhere else. That’s what I was trying to say, if you’re preconceptions fed by huge amounts of misinformation hadn’t led you to think otherwise…

    If I were gonna be poor, anywhere, I’d wanna be poor in New York City. Because it’s a city that you can always rely on to take care of you a lot better than any other place in the United States. and you’d only really know that if you’d actually lived there for any period of time.

    You know how I know that? Because I’ve been poor living in a lot of different cities in this country, and my life living as a poor person in New York City was orders of magnitude better than it could ever be anywhere else in this country. That’s a big part of why I love it so much.

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