New York City
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Cultures change. The idea that you can't smoke in an English or Irish pub anymore seems outrageous. I go back to the days of smoking cars on trains and the smoking sections on planes.
I rode a Greyhound from Chicago to Ft. Myers, Fla., and had to walk off the nicotine at the rest stops, and I was a non-smoker.
I rode a Greyhound from Chicago to Ft. Myers, Fla., and had to walk off the nicotine at the rest stops, and I was a non-smoker.
Carrying a firearm in NYC is now illegal, registered or not.
What the heck? sounds like this was somewhere in England or nanny Scandiavian countries where this is only acceptable when one is heading directly to firing range or on the way back from there ,yet firearms should be carried concealed in the separate pack.
Depends on your credentials some are Federal and that doesn’t apply.
NYC is too dense for firearms.
That never stopped anyone.
Outrageous statement! The people are almost a smart as other people anywhere else. Plus it's the hub of the universe. Ask anyone there who has her/his/ its/their wits about them. Just approach them carefully.
Well, I for one am glad of that. They finally passed a law to make crime illegal!
Is a giant rat hole?
LOL, kidding - thought this thread was free word association!
I’ve known some fine folks from New York.
LOL, kidding - thought this thread was free word association!
I’ve known some fine folks from New York.
New York is kind of everything crammed into everything else. If you can't find what you like there you aren't looking very hard, but you'll also get to see things you wish you never knew about. Or as I crudely put it once. In one block of New York you'll see people who's attractiveness makes you wonder about genetics, how many generations of hot people does it take to make someone that gorgeous. And how is mating possible for people as ugly as that other persons parents have to be?
Oh and you get used to the smell too (which anyone who complains about a pipe there hasn't thought about it's ability to cover other smells.)
Oh and you get used to the smell too (which anyone who complains about a pipe there hasn't thought about it's ability to cover other smells.)
I love New York City because I got there during good times over several decades. If you live there a lifetime, you can always discover a new area, a new neighborhood, activities or events you never saw before.
However, I'm not starry eyed about it. It can be both dangerous and cruel. It requires some luck and good advice to navigate. Judicious planning and good guides are important.
The pandemic hit the city hard, freezer trucks for morgues, evacuated business districts.
Gentrification and housing prices make it difficult to live a modest middle-class life there unless you are actually wealthy by standards in most of the rest of the country. (Same with San Francisco and other major cities.)
But I have good memories of The Big Apple. It is one of a kind in the world.
However, I'm not starry eyed about it. It can be both dangerous and cruel. It requires some luck and good advice to navigate. Judicious planning and good guides are important.
The pandemic hit the city hard, freezer trucks for morgues, evacuated business districts.
Gentrification and housing prices make it difficult to live a modest middle-class life there unless you are actually wealthy by standards in most of the rest of the country. (Same with San Francisco and other major cities.)
But I have good memories of The Big Apple. It is one of a kind in the world.
When I was living there cops were assholes. But they were assholes to everyone equally. I think that's what we need again. Cops who are assholes to everyone who breaks the law regardless of who or what that individual is. Too many being let go or not even being arrested for dumbest reasons. And we see same people committing same or worse crimes.
In NYC…. doesn’t the hotel at least have a smoking area outside on its own property?!? From reading the other comments in the thread… it sounds like smoking in public spots is banned… but it sure as hell seems like a hotel, even though banning smoking INSIDE would at least have a smoking spot on their private property to accommodate guests who smoke.
It that is NOT the case, I am quite shocked…… but the next idea would be to “borrow” the spot available of a nearby hotel who does provide an outdoor smoking spot to its guests.
If THAT does not even exist, I think I would mosey around, walking on the sidewalk so you are not stationary… and smoke a pipe of something with a pleasant aroma…. and if stopped or hassled, plead ignorance (leave it at “ignorance” implying you “did not know” but leaving off the end of your actual thought….. “ignorance…. a damn foolish law.”
