is it the vibe you hate? all the brunch menus i’ve seen have breakfast and lunch. brunch isn’t a meal it’s a menu.

but if it’s the vibe, i get that. most asian/south asian don’t have brunch.

the people brazenly smoking on the street are not most weed smokers. if most weed smokers were doing that there’d be at least twice as many.

a lot of people live here though. the ‘edge’ of a neighborhood is just also a neighborhood.

i have allergies, usually just sinus congestion, and i take claritin d for it. but a few weeks ago i started having weird sore-ish throat symptoms. after a bunch of days i went to urgent care and they said it looked like allergies. i don’t know if its an allergy to something new or what but it’s annoying!

honestly you shouldn’t be surprised in the suburbs either.

i’d be surprised if the 4 week course price doesn’t include a bunch of studio time outside of class, which is probably not free otherwise.

i’m really excited about this! i hope the class schedule will work for me.

they’re in manhattan but west village dental has been good to me, and i hate going to the dentist.

i got a card just for the digital stuff (i can’t take out books that don’t automatically return, i have a book hoarding problem) and it’s been great. but the most unexpected thing was checking out pressreader and finding out they have Fortean Times. it’s my favorite magazine but it’s big and british and like 12$ a pop. based on that alone i’m gonna donate!

i am also not a plant but did want to be a librarian for a long time.

they’ve been doing work on this intersection on and off for so long, i hope this is the final one.

is psilocybin mentioned somewhere here?

probably cause OP said “worse than usual”, implying they are aware it’s bad all the time but this time it was worse, so being condescending is a poor response.

when you do leave, you should ask for the deposit back with the interest. a lot of renters don’t even realize that’s what they’re supposed to get back. it’s a whole thing.

either that or don’t pay your last month’s rent just to be sure, but they’re still supposed to give you the interest.

which war?

i’m sorry you’re feeling that way. i’m moving is big deal! do you friends from school? it can be a trek to manhattan but it can be kinda grounding to walk around, maybe just go to some places you used to go while in school? or even just to the movies.

i hope you feel better soon. this might not be the right place for you but give it a minute. you can always leave later!

i prefer brooklyn but it probably depends a lot on what you like to do. when i lived in BK, my whole life was there. lived there, worked there and mostly socialized there and downtown manhattan. i lived in north brooklyn so getting to the village or the LES was easy, and there were several ways to get there. i also lived in brooklyn for like 15 years, so i was pretty settled.

i’ve lived in JC for 4 years. i work out in the suburbs and my friends are mostly still in BK so it’s a trek to get there. but if i was working in manhattan i might not mind so much living here. i’m also old now (44) so i don’t know.

it’s not hard to get to manhattan from here but i find the inability to go a different way frustrating. like in bed stuy, if one train got delayed i could take a different train to a similar place, or take the bus. i took the bus a lot in brooklyn, sometimes short distances just cause of the weather or whatever, but the buses in JC just aren’t going where i’m going often enough for me to use them. you can even walk from manhattan to brooklyn which is not an option for JC.

anyway, i find that if the path is delayed or just not coming for a while, the only other option i have to get home is taking a cab.

so far as stuff to do, i don’t go out much these days, and it might be more a function of time than place, but brooklyn always had all these weird little things going on, like tiny film screenings in a loft or punk shows in someone’s kitchen. there are at least 2 spots in not too deep BK where you can just rent a space to some screenprinting which is the sort of thing i haven’t seen at all here.

that’s been my experience. i think if i worked in jersey city or manhattan even i’d like it more/feel more grounded here but brooklyn was a great place for me when i was there.

edited because every time i try to write lived ducking autocorrect wrote loved.