Some guy will post a picture of a pretty standard looking pepperoni pizza and say: "Imagine not living in new york." And then there's the whole bodega discourse, which is also funny. "For you non-new yorkers, let me explain: a bodega is not a corner store. It's a place where you can buy gatorade, toilet paper, AND eggs." Thank you sir for explaining that to a slack-jawed yokel such as myself.
As someone who is almost certainly moving with their partner to NYC, I'm torn. I actually do love it, it's probably my favorite city in the US (Seattle and San Fran are contenders, but with our jobs' hours we'd start work at like 5AM PT so a non-starter), but it is disappointing to know that probably why it's my favorite is "it does Euro/Non-American Cities the best but still a poor excuse for one"...like we are going to Paris and Amsterdam this month, and I've never been out of the US. Am I going to immediately want to move to one of those cities? My partner is OBSESSED with NYC, and probably more importantly it's so hard to leave the country if you don't have some way to easily get citizenship somewhere else. I wish I could just write a letter to the offices of immigration of other countries being like "please rescue me from America" haha. I unfortunately am a case of "family was living in Brooklyn back in the 1700s" kinda WASP stuff, but without the actual trust fund or connections.