"Dominic T." > writes:

> Lewis Perin wrote:
> > "Dominic T." > writes:
> >
> > > [...joys and sorrows of New York...]
> > >
> > > Not even being biased, but I would believe you could find just about
> > > everything in NYC in PGH more condensed and easily accessible.
> >
> > That's a pretty strong conclusion to derive from spending a few days
> > in New York.
>
> [...what Pittsburgh has...]
>
> NYC has the same, but more of them. For the most part though they are
> one after another all selling the same items. So you have 6 blocks of
> stores that are exactly the same, we have 4 stores in 3 blocks all with
> different stuff. We have a whole Jewish area of town, Korean, etc. A
> cultural district, Market Square, small boutique shops, etc.

But it's not all the same. New York has three Chinatowns these days,
and by your account you seem to have walked around less than half of
one of them. Even within the Chinatown you walked around, there's a
lot of variation, e.g. a Fujianese part, an area dominated by ethnic
Chinese from Indochina, ...

I'm not trying to run Pittsburgh down, but Chinese New York these days
is a big and varied place.

/Lew
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