Prison

Castle Williams

"New York is a self-imposed prison where people convince themselves to live in rat-infested shoeboxes that each cost more than a mansion in the Poconos. Then they spend every summer getting on overheated, nonfunctional trains to vacation where every other New Yorker is vacationing."
Drew Magary, Deadspin

World's Money

Bank of China

"Being in New York means you're competing with the world's money: Every Eurotrash dickhead, every Russian oligarch, every Chinese industrialist. They're all there to drop PILES of cash. You don't stand a chance."
Drew Magary, Deadspin

Fear of Missing Out

Midtown Manhattan

"Being in New York means treating the rest of the world like it has perpetual #FOMO. You're in New York, and everyone else isn't."
Drew Magary, Deadspin