[Z-man]

The biggest downside to living in NYC right now is that crime is spiking to levels last seen before Mayor Koch cleaned up the boroughs. There have been gangs brazenly attacking innocent passersby's at gunpoint in broad daylight these days. Sucker punching, cold clocking, stabbing, theft...etc. It doesn't look very attractive in my book...

I live in Northern NJ in the outer band of the suburbs. 5000 acres of state woodland buts up to my property. And I can see the NYC skyline from a couple of the mountaintops that surround my town. By express bus, I'm about 90 minutes from Penn Station. But honestly, I can't remember the last time I was actually in the city... The kind of traffic jam I enjoy are the critters that trigger my ring cams at night -- racoon, fox, deer, wolf, even a bear or two...

To each his own I guess...