Moving to New York City
Published July 20, 2023 · 49s · 288,082 views
About This Video
Forty-nine seconds on moving to New York City. Van lived there for 20 years, arrived in his twenties. His position: every American should live in New York for one year, like the draft. Move there if you have a mission. Without a mission, the city eats you alive. With one, it makes a man out of you. No romance, no complaint, just the facts of arrival.
Transcript
I think every American should live in New York City for one year like the draft I lived in New York City for 20 years and I would say in your 20s New York is everything that you read about New York lives up to the New York advertising campaign right there there's all the people there's all the excitement there's the restaurants but it's really a place to move to if you have a mission if you have a mission and part of fulfilling the mission requires you to live in New York City it sort of eats you alive and for me New York City made a man out of me