#and about merge onto the long island expressway. seeing the road sign with the giant arrow labeled 'LONG ISLAND' was so like | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

oflgtfol · 6 months

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i love new york so much. separated by hundreds and hundreds of miles, no matter where i go, i can always be guaranteed to see a random "I ❤️ NY" decal on the side of a major highway

#brot posts #made the trek back to the island today after spending most of the week upstate with my grandparents #several hundred miles between their house and mine and i saw no fewer than 3 'I ❤️ NY' decals #and i know of a few on long island itself as well #and you know what? they're right. i do love new york #i feel zero patriotism for the United States as the nation i live in but by god am i such a rabid New Yorker #especially long islander #the pure relief i felt . several hours into my trip back home. going through the outskirts of nyc #and about merge onto the long island expressway. seeing the road sign with the giant arrow labeled 'LONG ISLAND' was so like #so utterly relieving i was just like :DDD LONG ISLAND !!! MY HOMMEEEE #i hate this place but also i love it . i cant ever leave. i most likely will have to bc its so fucking expensive but like #i will forever mourn leaving and a part of me will always belong here #i enjoyed the trip upstate and it definitely endeared me even more to ny state as a whole; but like #the pure relief of going to scattered suburbs around tiny 'cities'#suburbs that looked almost like those from home.. except for the fact they puttered out to pure rural communities within like 5 miles #going from THAT to the nyc area... having a /real/ city in the distance.. and having the surrounding suburbs stretch #for as wide as you could see... horizon to horizon.... and knowing the entire island is just one giant suburb #like yknow its annoying and kinda terrible that this place is so homogenous #but also . its relieving. like its my home. i live here. its what im used to #having a normal suburb that disappears to a void with population 5 within a 3 minute drive is so frightening. where is everyone....#and how do you call this thing a 'city' if there's only like five buildings with more than seven stories..........#sorry . im so nyc metro area pilled. i cant consider anything a city unless its steel skyscrapers with 100+ stories and busy traffic #and thousands of pedestrians rushing about at any given time #and how do you call this thing a suburb if there's only ten houses on a single street. why are your yards so big. where are the fences

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