Couldn’t agree with you more. Hampton Roads area Virginia was a smile-in-yo-face, knife you in the back, hypocritical hell-hole to endure for eight years. “Bless their hearts.” Genuine friends always came from some other state. Was glad to leave. I’d gladly live in New York. People there are rushed, but the kindest…

I lived in Manhattan (Ft. Washington area) for over a year. Some of the warmest and kindest people I have ever met in my life lived in Manhattan...relative to the other places I have lived (Des Moines, Milwaukee, Washington D.C., Chicago, San Jose,...)

True that! The Southerners are so disingenuous and FOS it makes you want to punch them in the face! You talk to one and hear him bragging how “... he has lots of Black friends...!” and then complains about ‘Black Lives Matter’ Activists “ ... Stirrin’ up trouble !” When they protest police abuse or Civil War statues…

I’ve lived in NYC on-and-off my whole life, living in the UK, Syracuse, Seattle, San Jose, Atlanta, Austin, even Birmingham, AL (deservedly at the bottom of the list), and I can tell you unequivocally that you will find more random acts of kindness in the Big Apple than almost anywhere on the planet. I am not joking.…

To the woman on the girder, I am so sorry your life has you on the edge. You are not crazy, you just need someone to help you deal with problems in your life. You are not alone.