Yo, just curious, Whats it like to live in NY???
It's different than any other place in the country. For one thing NYC is definitely an "old city", meaning that get the feeling that shit have (especially the buildings), have been around for a long time. Since you're from the South, you're immediate reaction going to be the amount of people, the lack of space, and how muthafuckas seem to be on top of each other. Also, the apartments a A LOT smaller and lack closet space, especially in older buildings. It's enough to have you thinking that cats back in the day only had a few changes of clothes.
Also this is not a car friendly city, actually a having a car here can be quite burdensome. Most of NYC was built before cars become a way of life, so in parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx lack parking space. If it's late at night you can sometimes walk three blocks to from your car to your building, then there's "alternate side of the street", parking. This is when the street sweepers come by to clean the street and you on can't park on certain side of the street for about two hours. My suggestion is that if you have a car, sell the muthfucka. NYC has the best transit system in the country and it's open 24 hours. Of course about 2-5 AM the trains run once every 20 mintues, but that's a hellva lot better than no train at all.
Being a chick you'll like the shopping, 5th Ave, SOHO, those are the areas with high end stores. 28th and Broadway and Chinatown sell the bootleg. The night life is the rivals that of LA Miami, Vegas or ATL. There's a night spot for every kind of people, who like every kind of music.
Also, depending on where you're from in the South NYC is surrounded by water, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens are on islands, and as the name implies, Staten Island is an island so there's plently of within the city limits you can go to.
Up here there's the seasons change, so you would need 3 kinds of clothing, winter, summer, spring, and fall. The weather on October 1st isn't the same kind of weather October 31.
Yes, you will. I'm from CA, but niggas think I'm from down South.
The convience. I like knowing that I can get damn near anywhere in the city for $2.25 at any time of the day. The fact I have four grocery stores within walking distance and a hugh ass suburban style grocery 15 mintues away by train. The skyline. The variety of resturants, the cigar shops, the comic shops, and booty movie stores. The fact there's two IMAXs. Every nationality has a parade. The fact that Philly is an hour way, DC is four hours away. I can walk to the corner boedga within five minutes. For me it's the little things that NYC offers that makes it cool to live here.
It depends on what you like to do.
Every city in America has areas you definitely don't need to fuck around in, but NYC is considered to be one of the safest big cities in America