I admit it, I kind of miss New York and the east coast – I miss my peeps, I miss some of the more romantic towns and I miss pizza and late night grease filled sandwiches at Subsational. I can’t remember having been away from New York City for longer, when I lived in Rochester, I would come back every few months or so and when I was in yeshiva it was pretty much the same, but the last time I was in NY was for a wedding on January 17th and I’m looking forward to the culture shock of it all.
I’m actually kind of surprised at my contentedness, northern Califronia is the first place I have lived in that I have felt content and spending almost every weekend in town. Sure, I go to one of the multiple frum communities in the area, but generally I have stayed in the Bay Area – I have spent exactly 4 shabbosim away from the Bay – once in LA, Reno, Lake Tahoe and Fresno – besides that I have wandered the communities of the Bay.
Logistically the Bay Area isn’t like the east coast where you can just hop over to another large frum community for the weekend. LA is 400 miles away and the only other close community outside of the Bay is Sacramento and it’s quite small – I have wanted to venture up to Portland, Oregon (turns out my brother is getting married to a Portland girl in a few months) and Seattle – both are very far away. In general, the west is like this, Denver for instance is over 500 miles to the nearest community of any size – but unlike many cities in the west the San Francisco Bay Area has numerous pockets of frum Jews creating this amazing diversity within a relatively small area.
I haven’t eaten pizza since February, that was when I met up with my girlfriend in Florida and I really miss the ease and joy of good pizza. I am already looking forward to flying into Lagaurdia and getting some pizza on main street in KGH. I’m looking forward to seeing frum Jews walking down the street, you never see that here, you don’t even see frummies on shabbos – wait, there aren’t actually any frummies here, maybe one or two families.
I already have my entire trip booked up, I get in Tuesday night and eat pizza, pick up my brother and his fiance from the airport the next day, drive upstate and wander around the Catskills and spend the first days at my friends farm. Sunday is my brothers engagement party in Brooklyn – maybe hit up the simchas bais hashoeva in Crown Heights, visit some peeps in Brooklyn, then think about who and what I need to see in the city – I need to hang out in central park, walk around the upper west side and am already thinking of a trip to Albany to see some peeps and then to Baltimore for the last days. Of course, it doesn’t help that the truck I’m borrowing from my ex-girlfriend doesn’t get such great gas mileage, but I love that truck and it makes things so much better.
Of course, I may have to throw some hiking and biking in the mix… It’ll be busy, but I’m really looking forward to seeing all of you!
Music to my ears …err. eyes 😉 Its about time you admitted you miss NY. How come you’re borrowing a truck rather than driving the car you just bought?
Because I have no time for an extended road trip
Do you still need a camera? I’ve got a decent one that I found on the side of the road. It works fine, but it looks ugly.
A couple of years ago on the way fro a visit in NYC, while I was living in Ohio, I realized that I hadn’t been in NY for over 1.5 years. It was great to be able to visit. Now, unfortunately, I’m in NY far more than I want to be.
NYC is awesome. Just stay away from the area’s inhabited from the Penguins and their Sushi Mongering Chani’s and you’ll be ok.
Ok till we move in and take them over too, HA HA HA!!!
*evil eyebrows*
Welcome back to this area? You open to dating or all booked up already?
Hesh there’s lots of people who would like to meet you , mabey you should dedicate on afternoon as a meet and greet. Or just post where your brothers engagement party is so we can stop by for a Mazal tov and some old williamsburg.
I also love my NY fix, even though I could never live there. I love Shiloh and Israel, but visit… sure! I must walk up and down Fifth Av, 34th st etc.
which pizza place in kgh hesh? a new one opened up called labella its really good right on main st a block away from jewel ave.
I get into that phase from time to time. All nostalgia-ey. Then I go visit and about a day in, I wanna kill someone or myself.
Then I say goodbye to my family and swear I’ll never go back.
Then I want some more of that kick@ss Mike’s pizzeria pizza on 91st….
Azoi geit dus motherfuc?ers.
Sounds like me
Ya. I was upset when Roma closed, but Mike’s is so much better. It’s freakin crack pizza. It’s almost worth it to go back to NY for it.
Happy that Simchas beis made it to your list
its so strange to me that you all go on about the pizza in nyc. I have lived in the northern california in the bay area my whole life and have only eaten pizza about 10 times in my life. the nature and physical beauty of california where heshy is staying is so much more worth it than living in new york just to have pizza however good it might be
You hugged trees growing up, we hugged pizza. Personally, I’d take good pizza over nice sunset any day of the week.
ah ah ah ha… its funny cause its true….
kosher pizza in LA is far superior to NY. Who can really compare Pizza Time to Pizza Maven or Pizza Delight on Fairfax. Don’t embarrass good pizza. Besides, when will Ny pizza shops get nachos?? That’s the main reason I stopped keeping kosher…good nachos in NY only come with chili. lol
And don’t get me started on donuts…Schwartz’s Bakery….ahhhh.
What the hell does it mean to hug trees? dude, you have to be exposed to the nature if you want to make comparisons, like heshy did so he has a legitimate opinion. Its not just nice sunsets, its the people, open spaces, sunsets, great spots for hiking, biking, etc., healthy food, amazing weather and beautiful flowers and animals. As well as being just awesome, I went backpacking and its really a great opportunity for hakarat hatov and thanking hashem for the magnificent world we live in, surrounded in physical beauty. Perek shirah is very meaningful after being in nature
why the hell is this hippy so pissed cause people like pizza? I love pizza and trail mix and nature and camping and cities and subways and bustle… I dont know man theirs beauty in everything, pizza mos def has beauty..
Definitely frumger. Thanks for backing me up. I’ve been exposed to all that sh*t and let me say for the record: It’s all gay.
Healthy food: gay
Beautiful flowers: gay as humping a trail-mix-eating boy scout leader.
Pretending to like perek shira: GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY!