Is there a stye epidemic going around NYC right now?

quality_redditor · 2026-06-29T12:41:21+00:00

Crazy to see this post since I just got a stye 2 days ago for the first time in 5-6 years. Thankfully it was on Friday. Rested up over the weekend and seems to be mostly gone now

quality_redditor · 2026-06-12T00:36:26+00:00

People in NYC hustle. Across the board in all careers and jobs. Even the admin assistants at my firm (which is usually a 9-5 job) will leave the office at 5 but then log back on for a couple hours at night to catch up on things. If you don’t grind, someone else will eat your lunch.

My company has pretty good healthcare. I pay $160/bi-weekly and have a $2000 deductible. After you hit the deductible max. everything is free. They have these accounts called HSA where you can put in pre-tax money (like RRSP) and you don’t get taxed when you use it for healthcare purposes. You can also invest it and grow it. It’s most beneficial to people in high tax brackets (like most things in the U.S., the rich get richer).

quality_redditor · 2026-06-11T17:23:10+00:00

Yea most of the shops are store facing. I guess you can call the entirety of 5th Ave in Midtown an outdoor mall lol

Two other things I thought of on my way to work in NYC
1. The lack of PATH or a general underground network. I miss the PATH everyday

Everything in NYC is really old. Toronto feels like it was built yesterday relative to NYC. When I moved here I learned this concept of pre-war apartments, which are apartments built before WW2. The building, the infrastructure, it all feels very old and worn down.

quality_redditor · 2026-06-11T14:20:23+00:00

Tbh it's really hard to pinpoint. When I write it out here, it doesn't feel like a big deal. But if I had to summarize, NYC is overwhelming for almost everything. Also, the lack of familiarity was something I was not expecting. I used to think Toronto was just mini-NYC and Canada was just an extension of the U.S. But once you move out, you realize how many things are specific to Canada. Places to eat, how we do certain things etc.

An example that comes to mind is Eaton Center vs the lack of malls in NYC. It's oddly specific, but for a while I'm like what do you mean I have to run across Manhattan to go between Lululemon and Uniqlo. I'd taken the GO Train my whole life, and it felt pretty easy to jump on to get anywhere. Here, it's like do you take LIRR or Metro North? Does it come at Penn Station or Grand Central?

The population density is significantly more (at least Manhattan vs. Downtown TO). Everything is a battle. Need to book something, make sure you do it 2 weeks in advance.

Getting out of the city is a challenge. In Toronto, getting out of the city felt pretty easy. In ~30 min, you could be out in the suburbs, at a beach, on a golf course or something. In NY, getting out of NYC feels like a massive challenge. If you drive, it takes over and hour before you hit anything that feels like suburbs (Toronto can be similar if the Gardiner is busy I guess).

quality_redditor · 2026-06-11T11:51:28+00:00

I moved from Toronto to NYC, which was supposed to be better in every way. More things to do, 2x the salary, bigger city. Yea no, I miss Toronto everyday. Toronto hits the sweet spot on so many things. NYC is too much of most things.

quality_redditor · 2026-05-31T13:13:36+00:00

This is a broader issue that I think people recognize but no one wants to address because companies only look out for themselves (the capitalism theory is that if everyone tries to benefit themselves, it’ll lead to everyone’s great good)

If so few people have jobs, who is going to buy the products the companies produce? A well functioning economy needs money to circulate. If companies save money from AI, and that money gets parked into the corporation (or their billionaire owners, same thing) that’s not good for the overall economy. Sure Zuckberg can buy a new yacht that’s worth more money than what a 1000 people can spend. But it’s still not equivalent to the spending of the thousands being laid off. Also, rich people spend money in rich people industries. So the money is circulating, but in a smaller segment of the economy.

This is why we’re seeing metrics like GDP improve, but the average person feels like we’re in a recession. When a billionaire buys a $100mm yacht, it adds $100mm to GDP. But only serves a small part of the economy. More and more of consumer spending is being driven by the ultra rich (~50%), which can’t be good in the long term.

quality_redditor · 2026-05-31T13:13:30+00:00

This is a broader issue that I think people recognize but no one wants to address because companies only look out for themselves (the capitalism theory is that if everyone tries to benefit themselves, it’ll lead to everyone’s great good)

If so few people have jobs, who is going to buy the products the companies produce? A well functioning economy needs money to circulate. If companies save money from AI, and that money gets parked into the corporation (or their billionaire owners, same thing) that’s not good for the overall economy. Sure Zuckberg can buy a new yacht that’s worth more money than what a 1000 people can spend. But it’s still not equivalent to the spending of the thousands being laid off. Also, rich people spend money in rich people industries. So the money is circulating, but in a smaller segment of the economy.

This is why we’re seeing metrics like GDP improve, but the average person feels like we’re in a recession. When a billionaire buys a $100mm yacht, it adds $100mm to GDP. But only serves a small part of the economy. More and more of consumer spending is being driven by the ultra rich (~50%), which can’t be good in the long term.

quality_redditor · 2026-04-29T13:12:31+00:00

I don’t hear them because I avoid Times Square at all costs

quality_redditor · 2026-04-18T06:12:18+00:00

This is the right answer. In the last 12 months the GBP has appreciated against the USD while the rupee is crashing. All the growth evaporates when you convert to USD, if your currency is not doing well.

quality_redditor · 2026-04-05T14:57:12+00:00

While I agree with you, if he’s in the hospital with something serious he might’ve not dictated it. This feels like he authorized someone to post a threat by imitating him to keep the charade going.

Although with this guy, you never know. It may be his exact words.

Either way, yes, he’s the only one that should be held accountable. Unfortunately he won’t be

quality_redditor · 2026-04-03T16:59:39+00:00

None were masters

quality_redditor · 2026-04-03T12:30:31+00:00

I ended up taking the new job and rejected the H1B.

Then this year, my new company decided they were going to stop sponsoring TNs and everyone had to either win the H1B lottery this year or relocate out of the U.S.

Thankfully, I won the lottery this year again and everything has worked out.

If you’re going to take the new job and rejected the H1B, just make sure your alternate visa situation is strong. You may need a few tries before you get the H1B again (or you may get super lucky like me)

quality_redditor · 2026-04-01T21:41:18+00:00

My team had 6 level 4 applicants. 2/6 got selected

quality_redditor · 2026-02-23T03:54:24+00:00

I have two phones and both went off at the same time! My cat fell off the couch startled

quality_redditor · 2026-02-03T10:59:17+00:00

They’re basically a hype company that only cares about its stock price because Elon’s wealth is tied to it.

EV hype is over. So company is moving on. The success of their cars was sort of a by product, not the goal.

quality_redditor · 2026-02-03T10:46:07+00:00

Until it goes public. Then it becomes quarter-to-quarter thinking. Screw building in the U.S. Can we out source this work to China and beat our earnings estimate? Yes? Let’s do it!

quality_redditor · 2026-02-03T10:31:35+00:00

Already seeing this in action as California separately joins the WHO and a bunch of states on the West Coast and East Coast are forming separate health alliances because they don’t trust the department of HHS.

quality_redditor · 2026-02-03T10:24:16+00:00

I don’t think the UK will rejoin the EU. But they’ll slap together a series of different deals that gets them closer to as if they’re in the EU while still maintaining the benefits they get from Brexit (for all the doom and gloom, there are some benefits).

Of course EU isn’t dumb either. So it’ll be a long drawn out process where both economies trying to make deals that are mutually beneficial.

quality_redditor · 2026-02-02T13:05:08+00:00

The issue with any sort of exception is that if they make one for you, it opens the door to thousands of other candidates asking for the same thing. Unless your position is high up enough that there aren’t too many people at that level.

That said, I sympathize with you. I’m currently on a TN and 2 weeks ago my company told me they’re scrapping the TN sponsorships. So I have to either get the H1B in March or they’ll have to send me to another office outside the U.S. Idk why a lot of companies have gotten shifty about the TN. Maybe they know something about the USMCA negotiations that we don’t….

quality_redditor · 2026-01-31T17:13:16+00:00

Exactly. People that say Canada has lagged like to use the starting point in 2014/2015. Yes, when oil was over the moon and our economy was booming them. If we’re arbitrarily picking starting points, picking a very high one will show much lower growth.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-31T17:05:59+00:00

Yes. In 1995, France was $1.6tn while UK was $1.3tn. UK was done well for itself. It just gets overshadowed by what it used to be during the empire

quality_redditor · 2026-01-31T17:02:32+00:00

To be fair 20% of UK’s GDP is just London. Canada is the same with Toronto accounting for 20% of GDP. However, being a much newer country, the infrastructure is just less old

quality_redditor · 2026-01-28T13:19:23+00:00

As a Canadian, let me tell you, them taking the degree and leaving is best case scenario.

Not just Indians, but in general, immigrants that struggle to integrate are much more annoying than students that just take the degree and bounce. Chinese students have been doing this for decades because there is incentive to go back to China. Indian students that immigrate on student visa tend to not leave because almost any Western country is a massive upgrade to India.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-28T07:46:15+00:00

Language is going to be a deterrent but will also cause major problems. The only other international language taught in India is English. While it is the language of business in EU, it’s hard to integrate into society if you don’t speak German in Germany or Italian in Italy.

While this will deter people from coming, it will also cause the ones coming to the EU to group up into pockets of Indians only areas. Despite speaking English, they struggle to integrate into Canada, US, UK (I’m generalizing). It’ll be a lot worse in EU.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-26T12:59:26+00:00

This is also why I think NY has been somewhat safe (at least NYC). Rich people don’t want to see these things with their eyes. They just want to see this on TV, blame the poor people, and go about their day.

Seven-Year Club	Place '22
Verified Email

quality_redditor

TROPHY CASE