just thought airfare was cheap in and out of new york and that you
didnt have to stay in a hotel if money was that concerning because
there are so many people here already, though I'm with you, it sure
should be inexpensive for everyone so whatever is most accessible,
would be hard to argue, wherever that would be.
On Jul 20, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Stephanie Bryant wrote:
> I would argue that there is nowhere harder or more expensive to get to
> for Silicon Valley/Bay Area vloggers than New York City.
>
> A typical trip to NYC for me involves about 12 hours of travel before
> I even get out of the airport over there, which means two additional
> hotel nights (one at the beginning of a trip, the other at the end).
> NYC is expensive-- hotels are at least as pricey as San Francisco,
> airfare is huge, and that's not even counting getting bilked by
> unethical taxi/limo drivers, who are so coked out they can't figure
> out how to drop off a passenger and may, in fact, have just been
> trying to arrange it so I'd be the last one dropped off, somewhere
> around midnight, so he could do whatever coke-fantasy was in his
> crazed head. This is just one of the many good reasons someone would
> have to be paying me real money for me to ever go back there.
>
> I'm not saying I'd go somewhere else, either: I'm a personal vlogger,
> not turning this into something amazing or leveraging it into a new
> media revolution. I just get really sick of the NYC-centric attitude,
> the same attitude that gets pissy when tech mags (which are often
> located here, where the tech industry actually is) use their local
> contacts to find out what's going on in the Silicon Valley tech
> industry. Guess what, New York: you are NOT the center of the
> universe.
>
> --Stephanie
>
> On 7/20/05, andrew michael baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> While I personally would love to go somewhere else just to get the
>> hell out of here for a few days, I would argue that nowhere in the
>> world is cheaper or easier to get to then NYC from the US or over
>> seas to the US (lets not get into boats and spaceships, etc).
>>
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