Manhattan is, in general, very well serviced as long as you live below 110th Street. North of that, things get a bit dicey as it can take nearly an hour to go from 207th Street to Times Square/42nd street on the 1 train due to lack of express trains along that line. (They shouldn't have dropped the 9 train, IMO!) Also, the further north you go, the more affordable housing is but also the less "nice" the area is.

Skyscrapers are abundant below 59th Street (the southern border of Central Park) and then the buildings get gradually shorter as you go north. By the time you get to 110th Street, a vast majority of buildings are short ones, typically brownstones.

If you live in Manhattan, chances are you'll have excellent access to the rest of the city. If you live in the other boroughs, it's a hit or miss. Plenty of huge gaps in the subway system there, but the MTA plugs it up with an excellent bus service. Staten Island? Forget about it. You need a car if you don't live along the Staten Island Railroad corridor. Oh, and the toll on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge is now $14 going toward the island, or $8 on the Goethals or Bayonne bridges.

You give some, you take some. I hope you do get the chance to visit the city sometime, it is a truly amazing experience.

So basically it's a duck blind on wheels. Gotcha.

I think it's pretty much time to just kill the franchise, leave it with SOME dignity.

I saw one near a Subway restaurant that said "Jared Is Still Fat"

Also died laughing.

Oh gawd... I drive on I-4 from Altamonte Springs down to Orange Blossom Trail past downtown everyday on my way to work. I cannot begin to tell you how much of a pain in the ass it is. It's also where my car got totaled on the 5th of this month, thanks to some jackass who decided to park his car in the fast lane just around a curve when everybody was going 50mph. Normally I would have been "at fault" but considering the situation I could not have avoided that accident.

I think a LOT of the problem has to do with the fact that there are exits on the left side as well as the right, so we get lots of people trying to cut through four lanes of highway traffic to get to the exit on the opposite side. Also, I would blame the kids in rice rockets who get in front of you even if there's just barely a car length of space in front of you. That would cause some panic braking which would cascade throughout the traffic, reaching as far back as Sanford.

Butterfly effect, anyone?