lol I lived downtown NYC for 4 years, East Harlem for 2. You're bridge and tunnel or ferry or LIRR or long ass drive into the city experience ain't fukking with the immediacy of me walking outside my house: dimes on the streets, Cumbia outside my windows, and the local food spot filling the air with that good.
You can't enjoy that from Jersey, Long Island, Upstate or wherever the fukk you stay
i enjoy MORE than that