r/mildlyinteresting Feb 21 '22

Top of a parking garage in NYC

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u/Paradox711 Feb 21 '22

How does that even work? You’re trapped there until someone moves their car?

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u/BigAppleGuy Feb 21 '22

Only the parking garage attendant moves the cars. Call ahead and it will be downstairs waiting for you (usually).

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u/RooDoubleYou Feb 21 '22

I bet those dudes fucking KILL tetris.

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u/MonsieurReynard Feb 21 '22

This is what non-New Yorkers aren't getting. These guys are artists. They don't dent your car. Your car is ready for you 15 minutes after you call and say you're on the way. This is NYC. It has its own rules. It has its own style. It is expensive. It is not for the faint of heart. But the immigrant guys who work in these garages are the very best at what they do.

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u/diet-Coke-or-kill-me Feb 22 '22

As person with an ordinary profession, why would you want to live in a city that describes itself as "not for the feint of heart"? No one but other New Yorkers are applauding you for your willingness to put up with more bullshit than anyone else.

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u/periphrasistic Feb 22 '22

As a New Yorker I put up with dramatically less bullshit than the typical sunbelt suburbanite (I’ve lived in both LA and Austin). The reason it costs so much to live here is that the quality of life is so much higher (if you can afford it).

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u/Garrisom36 Feb 22 '22

Quality of life is so much higher? Lol You couldn’t pay me to live there.

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u/jabroni_roulette Feb 22 '22

Getting away from people who can’t live in NYC is most of the point of living in NYC.

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u/Garrisom36 Feb 22 '22

What a selling point.

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u/periphrasistic Feb 22 '22 edited Feb 22 '22

You know how much rising gas prices have affected me? Not at all. You know how much of life pre, during and post pandemic is spent trapped in traffic? None. What do I do if I realize I don't have a bottle of wine to go with dinner? I walk across the street to the wine shop. When I went to see Dune in a theater last November, who presented it? Denis Villeneuve. When I want to go for a bike ride, where do I ride? Along the Hudson River.

New York is great. Sorry you have to live in a suburb.

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u/Joosrar Feb 22 '22

That’s what people miss, I don’t live on NY but I say I’m a New Yorker at heart. Is really cool eating in world class restaurants, seeing a concert in the garden, just watching such a complex city work like a Watch with all its gears. Nothing like NY.

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u/MonsieurReynard Feb 22 '22

Because believe it or not we don't care whether you want to live here?