Lived there 5 years. You won’t find a city with as much variety of foods from all over the world.
My favorite by far was a good old crawfish boil. Boil with corn mushrooms potatoes shrimp garlic and oranges. And a ton of Slap Ya Mama spice. Can’t beat it.
Oh, and it is required that you drink beer with it.
I stayed in Houston a few days when I drove across the country and I loved it. Very much a sprawl city like Miami and Los Angeles, you need to drive around to get to various spots. There was a lot of good food in Houston, fast casual and dining.
I don’t know if I’d wanna live there are they seem to have a lot of infrastructure problems and are built on a flood plain, but I’ll visit anytime I can.
I love staying in Manhattan neighborhoods too and just going to local coffee shops and bars. So much cool stuff in New York.
None of you would love NYC now. It’s a scary place. Flashbacks to late 1970’s early 80’s where you could get killed in broad daylight.
I’m a 6’2” guy and I think twice about the subway after 9pm. You can get knocked with a hammer to the back of the skull at anytime.
Walk through Times Square…. No thank you. It used to be heavily policed and no loitering. Now they let gangs from Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens come in and harass tourists all night. They’ll stop you, put their mix tape in your hand and if you refuse to buy you have 12 guys pushing you calling you a racist because you said no thank you.