New York City City, York, New

mucc1928

Hello everyone, i just came back from New York City, and I was disappointed with what I see.

NYC was 1 of the top 10 most expensive cities in the world.  The average cost is $400/night in hotel.   With this kind of price, I have a high expectation of what I should see in the city.

The subway was very dirty.  For some stations, I saw mouse running in the track.  Beggars slept on the benches at the waiting area, and it's not easy to find some area with the smell of pee.

The city was very noisy: voice, car, horn, subway, TV, construction....until at midnight, which is like HK.  

The roads were so badly maintainned. Many concrete roads are cracked, and sometimes they will fill a hole with red brick in the middle of a concrete roads.  It feels like cut and paste,,,,

Dirty!  The city is dirty and has bad smell after rain.  

Other than that, the rest of the city is quite alive and interesting.

So anyone has thought about NYC?

mucc1928

Sorry for the late reply.

Littleprince, dont' get discouragement because of me.  I have high expectation on NYC b'cos American always critized about how dirty chinese is, how bad chiense is and so on...

Well, all i can say is DOUble Standard.

Since I am a guy, I am not too interested in shopping.  And as for the shopping part I can do it online anyways, so I put most of my focus on arts and tourists attraction.  Well, the art district, which is Chelsea, has 3 streets of Galleries.  However, claiming as a city rich with art, I expect there would be sculptures, photographs, metal arts, theatres and so on....well, mostly drawing only.

In NYC I like greenwich the most because people look more friendly and educated.  And that district has a sense of European style.  The main is, the road looks clean and better maintained.

Big city could be dirty due to the amount of people littering, but the iold and badly maintained nfrastructures are  biggest disappointment in my whole trip.  Other than that, i do have a good time making friends and checking things out.  The city has a lot of energy at night, if you don't mind the chance of being jumped.