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These last few days have been a very exciting time in my life. With my visa in hand, I’m now in NYC and have begun the process of finding somewhere to live with a furious bout of apartment hunting. So far my only source of potential homes has been craigslist, which seems to have a lot more chaff than wheat, but despite that I’ve managed to find a few nice places with normal people by successfully filtering out those that are crazy (they normally have cats, go figure?). You can tell by their email reply or first phone call what you’re getting yourself into. This screening process has become second nature.

New York has the worst pavements and roads I think I have ever seen. I thought that people were being miserable/unfriendly because they were always looking down, but its actually just so that they don’t fall into a pothole. Cab rides are like a rollercoaster, especially if the cab has really soft suspension and bounces around like a space hopper.

China town has the worst drivers of all time. I almost died a dozen times. If you’re wondering why I was even in China town, it’s because some nice person on the street gave me crappy directions and I ended up walking about a mile in the direction. I didn’t really mind because the weather was so nice.