Title: I&#x27;ll start. Here&#x27;s what sucks about NYC:<p>1) Home<p>- Apartments are expensive. Can get 4x more space in Chicago for same price.<p>- Difficult to shop for home. Wanted a desk for my bedroom. None of the stores in the city, included Target, offered reasonable-priced desks that could fit. Had to buy online, which came with own issues.<p>2) Services<p>- Services are expensive. Want to get your hair dyed blond from someone you saw on Instagram? It&#x27;s $600 and they ruin your hair.<p>3) Food<p>- Groceries are expensive and inconvenient. Get delivery or Whole Foods and pay 30-70% over Trader Joe&#x27;s price. Or you need to walk&#x2F;Uber to Trader Joe&#x27;s, wait in line, then walk&#x2F;Uber back. Local bodegas? Usually bad quality and high prices (eg watermelon is $25).<p>- Restaurants are expensive. Entree&#x27;s in Manhattan are usually $25-35.<p>- Food isn&#x27;t uniquely great. I recently went to a well-rated David Chang restaurant in Chelsea. Meh.<p>- Grocery delivery is usually done by foot. Sometimes this is great, sometimes it leads to food being delivered hours late, warm, and gross. This happens across platforms.<p>4) Transportation<p>- Can&#x27;t have a car in Manhattan. Parking is $600&#x2F;month in my building. Btw, the doorman gets 50%, so $300&#x2F;month (yay!).<p>- Car rentals are quite expensive in the city. Want to rent a van to go camping? That&#x27;s even worse.<p>- Uber and Lyft is extremely slow in the city. I generally prefer taxi&#x27;s since drivers understand how to get around faster. They&#x27;re also priced competitively.<p>5) Airport<p>- Traffic between airports is quite bad. Usually about an hour. Makes me jealous of the 20 min SFO commute.<p>6) Healthcare<p>- Want to book a doctor or therapist? Go to Zocdoc, enter your insurance, try to book - they call you in a day saying they&#x27;re booked or don&#x27;t take your insurance. Great healthcare providers are tough to find.
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