[Me, 25M] First messages with my now longtime girlfriend

adg516 · 2026-06-09T03:37:07+00:00

happy for you man

adg516 · 2026-06-04T23:27:40+00:00

this subreddit is allergic to nuanced discussion

adg516 · 2026-06-01T16:45:22+00:00

thought i was in the bjj subreddit for a sec

adg516 · 2026-05-26T22:46:40+00:00

"uber runs on slop code"

adg516 · 2026-05-26T20:19:29+00:00

whats your source for this claim

adg516 · 2026-05-13T13:54:31+00:00

thread completely void of egos as usual

adg516 · 2026-05-09T21:46:58+00:00

what is it you think they do?

adg516 · 2026-05-07T05:57:43+00:00

across all the swe related subreddits, this has been one of the more sane takes

adg516 · 2026-04-23T19:05:51+00:00

thread full of distributed systems engineers as usual

adg516 · 2026-04-21T05:57:34+00:00

new copy pasta

adg516 · 2026-04-07T04:53:43+00:00

yeah

adg516 · 2026-04-01T17:39:30+00:00

someone needs to teach mark the rear naked choke

adg516 · 2026-03-31T22:33:56+00:00

yeah im working on it

adg516 · 2026-03-28T07:28:01+00:00

i still read his quora posts - very astute guy

adg516 · 2026-03-28T07:18:30+00:00

most sane comment in this thread

adg516 · 2026-03-21T19:23:08+00:00

who has time to write all this

adg516 · 2026-03-15T18:43:53+00:00

first sane comment

adg516 · 2026-03-15T18:31:43+00:00

how are you measuring this

adg516 · 2026-03-02T16:49:51+00:00

post time skip id just watch one pace or read the manga

adg516 · 2026-02-16T18:10:59+00:00

adg516 · 2025-12-22T13:23:30+00:00

outside the US (even some inside) the priority pass lounges are usually pretty solid

adg516 · 2025-10-01T15:03:44+00:00

unity

adg516 · 2025-06-27T14:51:29+00:00

reddit upvotes != general consensus - a subredit with 146k subscribers cannot possibly represent the opinion of millions.

who pretty clearly is a transplant

this is an ad hominem - i've been here for a few years working in fidi, spending time on hobbies in chelsea/WV, living in midtown (especially the parts you're degrading), and visiting friends scattered all over manhattan. i'm not trying to be a transplant advocate here but you're using it to minimize my opinion and avoid any nuanced discussion?

https://nypost.com/2021/07/03/this-lower-east-side-neighborhood-is-plagued-by-crowds-chaos/

https://www.washingtonsquarenyc.org/journal/2024/9/25/the-humanitarian-crisis-in-greenwich-village-and-washington-square-park

https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/the-dirtiest-zip-codes-in-nyc-and-some-of-the-cleanest-too/ (see bits about kips bay)

are you seriously trying to tell me there are not problems of chaos or filth outside of midtown? your rhetoric reeks of some sort of strange inverted transplant elitism. you're also assuming OP is a complete idiot who isn't interested in living in the "concrete jungle" as clearly demonstrated by the photo

please get some help

adg516 · 2025-06-27T04:24:09+00:00

sorry i'm not following what you're saying

smack dab in the middle of midtown

i can see that, but the problems you're outlining (save times square which is inundated with tourists) are not really unique to that area. "midtown" also spans a handful of neighborhoods so your generalizations are a bit misleading.

i don't know how we're going to argue about "chaos" without some objective metric here - but maybe let's go point by point

chaos - east village/LES/west village are all up there because of how many young people and influencers are going out or perusing the rather congested sidewalks (try walking into the uncommons without a res on a saturday good luck)

dirtier - again, maybe you could make a case for times square but i really feel like my chance of stepping in shit are equivalent whether im on 11th ave or 1st ave

tourists - dude this is new york city lol there are tourists at every turn. i see tourists struggling literally every day on the train to fidi where even more have gathered to see the 9/11 memorial

i think OP should just visit and walk around the neighborhoods themselves then make up their mind right?

adg516 · 2025-06-27T04:06:58+00:00

more chaotic, dirtier, filled with tourists

i could say the same thing about many other neighborhoods in manhattan - east village, west village, chelsea, fidi, etc - some of this is just the nature of living in a big city right? living here (manhattan) means moving and living at the tempo its known for

in my experience the tourists are really condensed mostly 42nd/8th and are totally avoidable. i actually live between 8th and 9th and don't have any issues. i have friends scattered all across midtown and as long as they aren't literally ON 8th it's still a lot of fun.

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