
We get bad raps in NY. It really isn't all that bad here in NY, especially in the suburbs. A good friend of mine from Wisconsin loves it here, he loves it so much he actually moved here for good. The food is great and the women are amazing. We also have country roads and mountains too.
Oh and the pizza is amazing...
I haven’t been in a while, but I know Staten Island was really beautiful. I was born and raised in North Bergen, New Jersey, in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, but my aunt (who really raised my 10-year-younger mother) lived on W. Raleigh Ave., about a block from the zoo. We spent a lot of time there is kids. Fast forward till I graduated college, and I married a gal from Staten Island I met at work. She was the practice wife.
A year out of school I took a job at Frito-Lay, which is what brought me to Atlanta in 1979. Well, I hated Frito-Lay, and Frito-Lay hated me, but I stuck it out for 2 1/2 years. Amazingly, they promoted me to corporate headquarters in Dallas, but I fell in love with Atlanta and I stayed. Of course back then it was a small country town of 1 million. Now over 7 million, I wonder where I could move next to get back to a small country town again.
On my bucket list, seriously, is to see what they did to the Bayonne bridge. I loved crossing the bridge as a kid, and I’ve seen the pictures since they elevated the road deck, but I’m thinking it’s something you just have to see in person.
I used to get up to Manhattan pretty regularly for work, and my kids live in Jersey and New York right there, but I haven’t been to the island in a long time.