How does living in New York City compare with living in Rhode Island?
Rhode Island has all the same things that New York has, it’s just that as a New Yorker, you don’t have to go as far to get them. I ate chicken vindaloo when I lived in Providence, but now that I live in Queens, I practically have an Indian restaurant in my bathroom. I have noticed that people outside of New York are overly scared of New York, for which I blame Rhinestone Cowboy. There’s a misconception that all of New York looks like Times Square, which is like thinking that everyone in Paris lives in the Eiffel Tower. On the same token, it’s also easy to dismiss small New England towns as if they’re nothing but unpaved roads with an Applebees and a gun show filled with toothless yokels in the center. I know for a fact that’s only in Pascoag. As a New Yorker, I don’t think I have any right to feel superior when I don’t even have a washing machine in my home. I have given up a lot of my humanity in exchange for living 15 minutes away from important museums. People in Rhode Island like m
