I always knew New York was different. I really never came to understand what that meant until I moved out of the city. The first time was in college. I went to a university in a rural town in Upstate New York with a population of about 12,000 people. The difference I noticed then was the diversity. In college, everything seemed so flat. Everyone was tuned into a frequency I couldn’t seem to pick up. The second time was in 2018 when I decided to move to Colombia. And now, when I return the differences are stark and some of them just straight up weird.
I wanted to see if I was the only one who thought so too so I asked Reddit. The answers didn’t disappoint!
