Why do so many people live in big cities like New York? So dirty and unsafe. So many better places to live, even if the salary is good. I rather have a slightly lower salary and a comfy area with safe and walkable.

well in your paradise world you can find job anywhere you live
nyc is a big city with many jobs for all levels people go there for the number of jobs not just how well paid they are
think of how much affect tokyo has on the rest of japan, people would be much happier if they live in a more open and spacious place than tokyo but they are there for the availability of job
if they can have the same job say in shikoku or tohoku they will take it without argument

>>213048546 (OP)
it isn't about the jobs anon. people would kill to live in NYC even if they were unemployed, myself included

>>213048546 (OP)
>and walkable.
None of america is walkable. Its the same stroad mcdonalds suburbs copy pasted for 5000 miles (8000 km)

>>213048546 (OP)
Each individual in that photo has the gdp of 1 to 100 000 filipinos

>>213048673
>None of america is walkable
...nyc is walkable

>>213048684
Is it really walkable if you don't feel safe walking? There is a reason rich people in NYC helicopter from building top to building top...

>>213048706
nyc is safe
maybe not as safe as japan but it is safe enough for basically anyone to feel safe basically anywhere in the city.

>>213048732
I visited NYC with my gf before. I was traumatized. I felt safer in Bangkok and Saigon. This homeless man kept singing at me in the subway. I can't enter a Starbucks without some black homeless opening the door and trying to get a tip. Smell stink of marijuana everywhere. Saw some crazy people go crazy at a few places. The air bnb area we had in Brooklyn looked like those meth zombie towns. Very scary.

>>213048881
this is disappointing to hear but I stand by my statement that NYC is generally safe

was your visit during COVID?

Basically NYC has a lot of issues like single mothers, welfare dependence and drug use. There also other things.

>>213048881
>Very scary.
No it isn't. You're just a bitch

>>213049069
A few months before COVID

>>213049188
honestly I agree with you but I don't think we should be so harsh to op, like NYC and other cities in the USA should be nicer