I was in Manhattan recently. We were driving to MA and decided to drive through the city. Here's a scene from either Broadway or 8th Ave. looking uptown. I enjoyed it, but then I wasn't driving. Manhattan is an exciting place, but I wouldn't want to live there. I did live there briefly many years ago. The grey faces of the people bothered me and the bracing-for-anything I had to do every day when I left the apt. I still like to visit, though not as much as I used to. On this journey we drove through the Holland Tunnel and up Manhattan to the Bronx. It was slow and I wouldn't do it again, but since it was on a Saturday the traffic wasn't horrible. It's a weird place to live...so separated from nature, yards, soft ground, trees, quietness. And the past few times I've been there, I've noticed that NYC is turning into a giant mall. They have the same big box stores as every other place in America, only they still have many thousands of the little places, too. For now.