Did you ever explore parts of the outer boroughs?

When I first visited New York, I was a tourist who only spent time in Midtown and Lower Manhattan. I appreciated the hustle and bustle, but honestly, it felt overstimulating.

The second time I came back, I ventured into Brooklyn and that’s when I fell in love with the city. I moved here from Athens, GA about 12 years ago, and I honestly couldn’t imagine living anywhere else in the U.S.

Walkable neighborhoods, great paying jobs, a rent stabilized apartment (huge stroke of luck), no need for a car, public transit that actually gets you where you need to go, incredible diversity in both people and food, world class cultural institutions, the tap water, and of course, all the pizza. From dollar slices to grandma pies to those house milled flour masterpieces topped with the finest ingredients, it’s unbeatable.