I have never lived in New York City.

I’ve been there a few times and honestly do no understand what is so great about it.

I have been taken to what the locals say is “the best pizza in NYC.”  I’ve had better in Miami (shout out to The Big Cheese).  I’ve have better deli food in Fort Lauderdale, Chinese food in Miami and Chicago, and steak in Omaha and South Dakota than I’ve had in New York City.  All of it much cheaper too.

I used to stay with my buddy who lived in an apartment in NYC when I’d visit him.  He apartment was nice, but my condo in Chicago was just as nice, three times the size (which is saying something since my condo was 1,600 sq-ft), and cost a third the price ($4,500/mo in NYC vs $1,450/mo in Chicago).

I’d ask what is so great about living in NYC and they’d say something like “the MET is over there and the Guggenheim is over there…” stuff like that.  Then I’d ask “how often do you go there?”  The answer turns out to be “almost never” because the lines are so long to get in and it’s expensive.

I’ve been to the Guggenheim more than the average New Yorker, and I don’t even live there.

NYC is just another city.  It’s a big city.  There is lots of stuff to do there.  But I’d rather go for a weekend and be a tourist than live there.

That is blasphemy to the people of New York City.  To them New York City is the center of the known universe.

That is why New Yorkers like Michael Bloomberg, Bill de Blasio, Chuck Schumer, Andrew Cuomo, and now Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez think that they should run the country.

When was the last time you saw Mayors or Governors from Midwestern states sending their police to do illegal sting operations in other states or travel over a thousand miles to the southern border to weigh in on federal issues.

The exude the attitude that “New York City is America and everywhere else that is different is strange (and also beneath us).”

Then someone from New York City will do something that shows just how out of touch they are with the rest of America and why New York City should not be the thought leader of this country.

In this case, it was two somethings, and both of them were live streams from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Here is the first one:

Ummmm….

I had corn fields in my back yard in at least three states.  There is a cotton field on the other side of the road leading into the development I live in now.

I’m not in any way suggesting that I am a farmer, but I am aware of where my food comes from and seen it grown on the industrial scale.

It’s not magic, it’s agriculture, like humans have done for about 23,000 years.

Next there was this one:

Half of homes in America have garbage disposals, and 70% of new homes have them.

That is not the case in New York City, where they were banned until 1997 and are now only found in luxury apartments.  Most of the city still doesn’t have them because of the fear they they will clog up the piping in buildings.

Now, my mother never used her garbage disposal.  She tenderly loved and cared for her septic tank like it was one of her children and so didn’t want anything that might threaten its health to go into it.  But we still knew what it was.

I think the only place after the dorm that I lived that didn’t have a disposal was the crappy apartment I lived in in South Dakota that was built in the 70’s.

What confuses me about this video is that while it makes sense that she may never have known what a garbage disposal was if she had only ever lived in New York, but she went to Boston University for four years.  Did she never experience a garbage disposal in her life before?

Clearly this is woman who is totally oblivious to the norms and general knowledge that exist outside of New York City, yet she wants to tell the rest of us how to live.