Is New York America's Unhappiest City?

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New York, Americas unhappiest city | New York Post

They're unhappy, but they're also insufferably full of themselves, being from "The City" (as if it were the only one). I live in an area with tons of NYC refugees who left for quality of life reasons. But they still remind one every chance they get that they are from where it's at, so to speak.

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It really isn't the friendliest place to live, no. I've been to other places that are far friendlier. Having lived in Upstate NY and the city my whole life, I must say other places are friendlier.

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From The Pest Zone
The New York Stories

By H.P. Lovecraft

Edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz

H. P. Lovecraft's "New York Exile" of 1924-26 was perhaps the unhappiest period of his entire life: living in a city whose giganticism and heterogeneity he loathed, unable to find work and forced to economize drastically on food and other necessities, and trapped in an uncongenial marriage, Lovecraft could only express his anger and despair in his work.
This volume, which gathers the five stories he wrote during this period, shows how Lovecraft sought refuge by returning imaginatively to his native New England ("The Shunned House," "In the Vault"), lashing out at the many "foreigners" occupying the city ("The Horror at Red Hook"), seeking the antiquarian havens that still remained in the metropolis ("He"), or boldly confronting New York's clangor and stridency ("Cool Air").
Editors S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz supply a lengthy biographical introduction as well as exhaustive notes to each story, supplying information on their background, influences, and use of the history and topography of New York City. As a result, these five stories present an underlying unity beyond their varied themes and locales: they show how Lovecraft came to terms with America's only true megalopolis.