Business Insider's reporter moved from the UK to the US and found that the reality of living in NYC is different from what you see on shows like "Friends."
In November 2020, Heather White decided it was time to move to Brooklyn and open her gym’s second location there. She founded Trillfit, a runaway fitness sensation, in Boston and was ready to expand. People in her life told her New York is not the place to be right now. Her response: New York is always the place. “When everybody goes left, we go right.”
It’s the best-kept secret among New Yorkers now is the time to move to New York City.
If you’ve turned on a TV or read a news app in the last year, you’ve heard the chorus of eulogies: New York City is Dead. Eerie images are plastered before us of cavernous retail avenues, abandoned plazas, and rising crime.