If you haven’t done at least 75 percent of these things, you’re just a poser. These are part of the true NYC experience:
1. Live in an apartment with one of the following:
a) a perpetual plumbing problem
b) a mice or roach infestation
2. Install a window air conditioning unit without looking at the directions
3. Adopt an animal
4. Own a weird piece of art
6. Quit smoking
7. Take up smoking again
8. Drink and/or smoke on a rooftop or fire escape
10. And go to work the next day
11. Or take a day off just because you’re hungover
12. Get involved with a start-up in some capacity
13. Work late. Like at least 9pm.
14. Lose a shoe (or some other article of clothing) on a night out
15. Have a brief love affair with one of the following:
a) someone who is not the gender you’ve been attracted to your whole life
b) your boss
16. Have a chat with a stranger about life
17. Visit all the major museums
19. Go back to coffee
20. But only go to indie coffee shops
21. Vote
22. Learn all the words to a song about New York (Taylor Swift counts, but Frank Sinatra or Billy Joel would be better)
24. Talk shit about New Jersey
25. Stroll aimlessly through a park
26. Go to a grown-up Halloween party
28. Break up and live with your ex for a little while
29. Live with random people who you don’t know at all
30. Never go to Liberty Island
31. Never take this picture that tourists take:
Cover photo credit: Lei Han/Flickr