^-^ This question has been asked before by some other people, but not everyone got to answer those ones, right? :D I lived in NYC for all my life, and I wanted to got to France and Japan (for heritage and) to see the different architecture. I haven't, but I'm planning to in the future... After living in NY for 14 years, I moved to Hawaii. Big Island. Here in high school, when I tell people of where I moved from, they say, "wow! I wanna go there! You're so lucky~! This place is boring. Nothing to do! *sigh* All the fun is in smoking pot and surfing." <-- seriously, thats a mesh of what people told me so far. They also asked, "are there any hot guys? Is there daily gun shoot-outs? Any black people and houlies [Hawaiian for Caucasians]?" The general pop. make-up is very different. ...Its funny, because before I left to this place, my then classmates said, "I wanna go to Hawaii! It must be beautiful there. I'm so jealous. Please, take me with you- stuff me in your suitcase." Do tell. Ah, I just wanted to add: NYC is very dirty compared to Hawaii. -__- And, since I live in the mostly rural part of this state (Honolulu , the capital and only major city, is on another island. Btw, tomorrow's date is when Hawaii officially became a state. School's off. ^_^), I can say that though Hawaii has more of the natural beauty (clear waters and long stretches of nothingness, anyone?), NYC is a lot more convenient, and there IS more stuff to do than go to the movies every Friday night. :-)