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New Yorkers Tell All|纽约人说纽约
New York City is known as America’s economic and cultural capital. It’s a city where young people want to go, whether to take up a high-paying job on Wall Street, study, or struggle to pay rent while working in the arts.
It’s also the setting of some of America’s popular TV shows and movies. The best known may be TV series “Sex and the City”. It features four aspiring2 women enjoying the comfortable life of chatting, shopping, clubbing and looking for their Mr. Right3.
However, Dunham, 26, said TV shows only scratch the surface4. “TV shows never get how expensive things are in New York,” she said, adding that she knows a married couple who are in their 30s, have good jobs, and still share a couch because their apartment is so small.
To Dunham, reality in New York means getting a quick lunch at food stands, smelling the stinking5 piles of rubbish every week on trash day and paying tolls to cross bridges and tunnels—things that TV shows rarely capture.
Elish Glick, 23, an artist living in Brooklyn6, said that while New Yorkers can sometimes be unfriendly, it’s often because of their nature as driven, ambitious individuals.
“People here are mostly young and single.” Glick said. “I kind of admire it, not settling down. They’re here making sacrifices, offering themselves, being creative and providing intelligent input. A lot of people are confiden