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New York doesn't care about your backstory.
It cares if you're useful. If you're good. If you can keep up.
This will make you fight to be there.
The city attracts world-class talent in every field - art, finance, tech, fashion, food - all colliding in one compact, walkable place. Everyone's chasing something different. And that friction creates a unique energy.
But there's also confident mediocrity in the city. So you have to trust your own judgment. No one will tell you who's real.
New Yorkers talk shit about their city constantly. The rent is insane. The subway is broken. Winter is brutal. You're competing with the richest people on the planet just to be there.
And yet, most people stay.
Not because it's easy. But because leaving would feel like giving up on yourself.
New York has a way of making you feel like anything is possible.
You can almost touch your dream.
I feel like my best version when I'm there.
More focused. More alive. More willing to bet on myself.
It can be lonely. Eight million people, and you can still feel invisible.
But if you find your people, it's the best place to be.
NYC isn't a destination. It's a mirror.
It will show you who you could become, if you're willing to fight for it.
New York doesn't care about your backstory.
It cares if you're useful. If you're good. If you can keep up.
This will make you fight to be there.
The city attracts world-class talent in every field - art, finance, tech, fashion, food - all colliding in one compact, walkable place. Everyone's chasing something different. And that friction creates a unique energy.
But there's also confident mediocrity in the city. So you have to trust your own judgment. No one will tell you who's real.
New Yorkers talk shit about their city constantly. The rent is insane. The subway is broken. Winter is brutal. You're competing with the richest people on the planet just to be there.
And yet, most people stay.
Not because it's easy. But because leaving would feel like giving up on yourself.
New York has a way of making you feel like anything is possible.
You can almost touch your dream.
I feel like my best version when I'm there.
More focused. More alive. More willing to bet on myself.
It can be lonely. Eight million people, and you can still feel invisible.
But if you find your people, it's the best place to be.
NYC isn't a destination. It's a mirror.
It will show you who you could become, if you're willing to fight for it.
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Filipe Macedo
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i spent 5 months in New York last year the longest I've ever lived outside Portugal here's some observations about my time there: 1. new york doesn't care about your backstory. it cares if you're useful, if you're good, if you can keep up 2. new workers talk shit about their city all the time. the rent. the subway. the winters. but no one ever leaves. 3. i feel like the best version of myself in nyc. more focused. more alive. more willing to bet on myself.
good jooob
Will head over to reading this now Don't think I will ever come to NYC, because of my country