Or you can walk through the Times Square subway station during rush hour and try to get to your transfer train as quickly as possible while weaving through other people doing the same in the opposite direction.

Umm... a lot of games are geared towards the average straight guy. Also - the next time you play an online game with voice chat, listen for "that's so gay".

This article seems silly. You take someone who's used to a way of life, put them in a different settings, they feel stress because they're in a completely different environment. Then you thrown them back to the type of settings they're used to and they feel less stressed out and can remember things because they're not stressed out. DUH? If you take someone who was born and raised in the city and put them into a non-city setting, they get stressed too.

You must not have been looking at a local... and if you are, they're probably trying to avoid the tourist who insist of stopping in the middle of the street to look up and point at various things that the locals don't care about.