New York minute

A New York train is whizzing by as a woman wearing a black hat walks on the platform.

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Idiom: New York minute

Whether you call it New York City, the Big Apple, the Big Smoke, or the City That Never Sleeps, if you’ve already been there, you have a good idea of what can happen in a New York minute.

I’m not a fan of American cities, or cities in general, for that matter.

I prefer the social health care systems in Canada and Japan and the strict gun laws to pay-as-you-go health care and devil-may-care gun control, and I love quiet.

That aside, I do love New York.

It’s vibrant, vivacious, voluptuous, and vociferous all at the same time.

One day in New York is like a month anywhere else on the planet; they do everything quickly.

Perhaps that’s from where the term New York Minute originates.

A New Yorker can do more in a minute than a Tokyoite, Vancouverite, Osakonian (?) or Londoner can do in three.

New York is busy.

There are places to pause and take a break before stepping back into the whirlwind which is daily life there.

But why would you?

The very act of entering New York is taking a break from the rest of the world while simultaneously being submerged in it.

Find a quiet corner in any subway station to stand in, and a representative from every nation in the entire world will walk by.

It’s possible to see more in a New York minute than if you had a million dollars and your own plane.

There you have it.

A day in New York gives new meaning to the expression time flies.

A New Yorker can do more in a minute than anyone else can do in three.


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