Living in NYC

People who don't live in NYC tell me how "awesome" or "incredible" it must be to live and raise children in NYC.

It's not.
Notice, most people leave the city when they have kids, and very few people move in to the city once they have had children.

The reason is that you have to be semi nuts or completely out of your mind to raise children here.

Think about this, when you run out of a few things that you need from the market, you probably walk or drive to a nearby market and pick up what you need. So the same thing happens to me. Except, I have to go to a market I share with a zillion people living in abnormally small places that cost a lot and these people are pissed about it. They will literally run you over, hit you with a baguette or curse you out.

Your post office? For some reason NYC has a real shortage of them. So when you go, you are guaranteed a line that's a mile long and two people at the counter who are inevitably miserable.  I guess they are surprised employment in a post office is not fun? I don't know why. But, I avoid post offices at all costs. Need to mail something? Oh well, I'll see the recipient soon enough.

We have an insane amount of banks, so you don't mind going to one.  Chase alone has 4000 in a 10 block radius. If you're going to the bank and see a line, leave quickly, because the bank is getting robbed. We don't have lines at banks.

School? We have a variety. But even our public ones require applications. Everything here requires an application. I'm pretty sure somewhere along the way I filled one out to be oermitted to have a BM on this island.

So you're wondering where I've been the last three months...
Let's dive deeper in the polluted Hudson and examine.....