Why Manhattan is overrated, and you should live in Brooklyn
Busy side walks and streets filled with yellow cabs, the usual scene of a walk down 8 th Ave in Midtown. Crossing the street you see the local pizza spot with lines coming out of the door, a coffee shop packed with students in study groups to the left, and I love NY t-shirt wearing tourists to the right trying to figure out why the price for a macchiato is three times the price it is anywhere else. The normality of street performers at any time of the day or night giving you their all every day of the week, holidays, weekends, they literally never stop. All of this was so mind blowing for me being a new resident of the city, but quickly it became the places I heavily avoided. You see, the city, it is a different kind of beast. Don’t let the bright lights fool you, without fat pockets Manhattan will swallow you alive. The constant hustle of the city for me, made it hard for me to see myself living there. There are always events being held, from marathons, to parades, the famous NYE bal
