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How long does it take to adjust to New York City?
And people that live here are just like, oh, it's just what life is.
That's exactly my point. I can't drive, but I can tell you which subway gets you to like Brooklyn. I can drive, but I'm bad. So you have your license, but- Here's what happened. I took three tests. I failed the first two driver's tests. I passed the third one because I got in the car and I was like, please don't fail me. I'm terrible. And the instructor laughed.
And then I hit a cone and she was like, all right, you got it. Took sympathy on you. Yeah. But then it was like, because of that, I don't drive out of respect because I know it's a bullshit license. Oh, okay. So I like never drive. Probably for the best. Yeah. I did it the other day, but it was like six blocks.
Jesus Christ. Yeah. Well, another thing, do people raise children here? Yeah. Because I've never seen, well, I don't know. I just never, they don't look like they're going to school. Why do they go to school? Underground, like subterranean children, kindergarten area.
You see the little kids with the rolly bags and the going to, yeah, they look like businessmen. It's great. They're already jaded. They're already like, fuck, I got to go to school today. This is terrible. Yeah. Oh, fuck. Got a spelling test. They're miserable. My teacher's being a dick. Yeah, dude. No, they're kids. I was a kid here. I mean, we grew up here. But it's definitely an energy.
When people are like, this city's terrible, I'm like, I can't argue with you. There's a lot of problems. I feel like every building's always falling apart. There's always people drilling. You just walk around, there's people just drilling on the side of buildings to make sure loose bricks don't fall out and land on someone.
You're kidding.
Yeah, it's called Section 11 law. So they will have to drill on the side of your bill. So if you're like, it could be like, we could be doing this podcast and there could be a guy just like right outside the window, just like drilling. And what's he doing? He's making sure the bricks don't fall out. By weakening the bricks by checking.
I don't know enough about it, but I know, I know that's what they're doing.
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