It's a simple question and many of you don't realize you are but you are. Trust me. Explain yourselves.
2007-04-29 11:06:59 · 13 answers · asked by Dubberino 3 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ New York City
The same reason the people where you're from are such idiots. It's the population around you.
New Yorkers are like they are because they can be. We didn't come to the city to be nice, polite, ***-kissing, bumblef**ks from Nowhere, Loserville USA. Most of us came here because we wanted to be in the middle of everything, and if that means dropping the pleasantries, we're okay with that. It's eat or be eaten. We thrive on that. That's why we're here.
2007-04-29 13:44:24 · answer #1 · answered by pb&jelly 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Beez. We all live on top of each other, and therefore have no sense of personal space. Everyone has a different accent or language, so we have poor communication skills. On the flipside, NYC is the corporate and financial "center of the universe", so we have inflated egos, even if we are humble hot dog vendors. For all of these reasons and more, we feel that we are survivalists, real tough guys (and girls). This puts a big chip on our shoulder, and a swagger in our walk. Before moving here and giving up driving, I never realized what a great driver I am. I never realized how irritating it is being constantly touched by strangers, just constantly. Or how many gross smells the human nose can decipher all at the very same time. Uggh. I am so crabby here that I give myself headaches. But then I remember how tough I am for surviving it all, and I see a firefighter in his uniform carrying a grandmother out of a 14th story window, and it's all worth it, the "a$$hole"-ness.
2007-04-29 20:45:20 · answer #2 · answered by Mink M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A few reasons come to mind. We are living on top of each other and we're paying out of the nose to do it. Our rents suck and most of us can never hope to have a house without having to commute for 8 hours a day.
Another reason is that people that have never been to the city get crazy ideas of how NYC is from TV. TV is about as crazy as it gets. Sex and The City, there is no way in the world that she could have afforded that brownstone on a writers salary. Even a really good writer. Friends...I laugh, their apartment would realistically cost about 7000 a month.
Thats why we seem the way we do.
2007-04-29 22:15:32 · answer #3 · answered by zebj25 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NYC is a money jungle. You have billions if not trillions of dollars in the city ready for the taking. The strongest, the most clever, and the most determined only survive. All I could say is I'm sick of the rat race, but I need to survive so I go along with the game.
2007-04-30 09:17:49 · answer #4 · answered by mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Short answer :To keep annoying suburban folks away. Bye.
Long answer: most of the really awful snotty overly entitled "New Yorkers" are freshly minted - they moved here with their attitudes in place. People actually from the area, whether the boroughs or the surrounding tri-state area are normal. Many people took sex in the city literally...and they are destroying the city. We don't like them either.
2007-04-30 17:44:21 · answer #5 · answered by slipstreamer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From dealing with ignorant tourists like yourself.
Who the heck are to say such things? Sure there are always people who are less than nice everywhere you go but you don't go around categorically claiming that everyone from a certain place is one type of person. Its like saying southerners are ignorant or west coasters are hippies, there is less then 2% truth to any of it. Grow up.
2007-04-29 19:29:15 · answer #6 · answered by A O 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Native NY'ers aren't aholes. NY get its reputation from the southerners and mid-westerners who flock to the city because they think it's cool. They move to NY and have a hard time making it. They become disgrunted and frustrated and act like aholes.
Next time you are in NY and you think someone is an ahole, ask where they were born. 9 times out of 10 it will be Macon, Ga or Springield, Mo.
2007-04-30 09:46:45 · answer #7 · answered by joe s 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Too much stress,too many ppl squishing you on the train,too much work and not enough pay.
2007-05-01 15:46:21 · answer #8 · answered by Golden_Goose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's hard not to be, it's rough to make it here, and people who DO make it here feel so entitled to their hard earned success that they forget their manners......saddly, I am outta here for a less grating city
2007-04-29 19:23:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll have you know we were voted friendliest city in the WORLD, retard!
2007-05-01 02:04:58 · answer #10 · answered by Bellina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋