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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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