How to answer "Why New York City"? Forum

[Anonymous User]

I come from a small, rural town in the South, but bid heavily on NYC in hopes of obtaining a SA position. How do/should I answer the question "Why New York City?" ... can't just say "need job"

[DELG]

I like paying rent with my own vital organs.

[WokeUpInACar]

Just talk about it being the place where the biggest, best, most sophisticated, most elite, etc. etc. legal work in the country is done. I also threw in a spiel about being a night owl and loving that there is always something open when it's super late in NYC.

[Mal Reynolds]

I love trash day! Reminds me of Bangladesh.

[DELG]

I love trash day! Reminds me of Bangladesh.

Mal is a rayiner alt?!?!

[09042014]

I love looking at, but not being able to afford, world class restaurants.

[Mal Reynolds]

I love trash day! Reminds me of Bangladesh.

Mal is a rayiner alt?!?!

Lol I wish I was as smart as that dude.

[JamMasterJ]

I love looking at, but not being able to afford, world class restaurants.

LOL. I live like 10 blocks from Daniel. It's very depressing

[smallfirmassociate]

"It's the greatest city in the world."

"Has the best lawyers and law firms."

"Center of the legal world."

"Exciting."

Blah blah blah. New Yorkers jerk off to shit like that.

[Anonymous User]

"Part of law school is the process of tempering all of the cool expectations you have about your life as a potential lawyer. All they do is lower your ceiling. When you go to New York, it doesn't feel like you have to do that to yourself. There isn't a ceiling; and if there is, someone builds an office higher than it anyway."

worked for me.

[Anonymous User]

New Yorkers jerk off to shit like that.

Hey, as a New York I take offense to that remark. You think I have "time" to jerk off? Not with all the looking at restaurants I can't afford, doc review at whiteshoe law firms, and rent paying with vital organs that I do on a daily basis. No, I don't think so buddy.

[JamMasterJ]

New Yorkers jerk off to shit like that.

Hey, as a New York I take offense to that remark. You think I have "time" to jerk off? Not with all the looking at restaurants I can't afford, doc review at whiteshoe law firms, and rent paying with vital organs that I do on a daily basis. No, I don't think so buddy.

I'm glad we have the anon feature to protect the sanctity and privilege of your glorious insight

[txdude45]

"I feel like the money I'd spend on a mortgage anywhere else is probably best spent on exorbitant rent when you look at the long-term property value situation. As a committed liberal, I'm also very excited to contribute tax dollars to amazingly shitty roads and truly lackluster public services. Most importantly, there are a lot of things I've never done that can only be accomplished in the city: watching rats crawl around the garbage that seems to always be piled on the curb, having unknown liquids fall into my face/eyes from the apparently permanent scaffolding, constantly having to decide between walking a distance I'd never considered walkable or waiting 15 minutes for a cab to recognize my outstretched arm, and bumping into celebrities. The food is also quite good when I eat instead of paying my rent."

[heavoldgotjuice]

Good advice, except for the watching rats crawl around in the garbage one ... made me laugh tho lol

[hipcatdaddio]

just tell them that the sound of honking horns really relaxes you.

[BaberhamLincoln]

"I really like when people ignore and silently hate me everywhere I go. Oh and being pushed around in smelly crowds -- that's cool too"

[txdude45]

just tell them that the sound of honking horns really relaxes you.

This is the one thing I'll give NYC. I was raised in a very quiet city and always went to sleep with the radio on because it was too quiet. The city sounds do help get me to sleep.

[Citizen Genet]

Begin rapping "Empire State of Mind." You'll get a CB on the spot if you hire an Alicia Keys impersonator as a back up singer.

[encore1101]

"Why NYC" is such a turd question.

[Mal Reynolds]

"Why NYC" is such a turd question.

Lawyers ask mostly turd questions and lots of people get them wrong so I'm not sure who comes out a winner in that case.

[encore1101]

"Why NYC" is such a turd question.

Lawyers ask mostly turd questions and lots of people get them wrong so I'm not sure who comes out a winner in that case.

When you ask turd questions, you should expect turd answers.

On a brighter note, I actually have a policy of not BSing during interviews. Someone asked me why I moved to NYC from California, and I told them the truth -- I was seeing a girl that lived in NYC, but we broke up a few months after I had already started law school.

I don't recommend it. Just do the ol' shuck and jive for your slavemasters and don't dare tell them the emperor has no clothes.

[Mal Reynolds]

"Why NYC" is such a turd question.

Lawyers ask mostly turd questions and lots of people get them wrong so I'm not sure who comes out a winner in that case.

When you ask turd questions, you should expect turd answers.

On a brighter note, I actually have a policy of not BSing during interviews. Someone asked me why I moved to NYC from California, and I told them the truth -- I was seeing a girl that lived in NYC, but we broke up a few months after I had already started law school.

I don't recommend it. Just do the ol' shuck and jive for your slavemasters and don't dare tell them the emperor has no clothes.

I'm sure that strategy hasn't worked out well for you.

[encore1101]

"Why NYC" is such a turd question.

Lawyers ask mostly turd questions and lots of people get them wrong so I'm not sure who comes out a winner in that case.

When you ask turd questions, you should expect turd answers.

On a brighter note, I actually have a policy of not BSing during interviews. Someone asked me why I moved to NYC from California, and I told them the truth -- I was seeing a girl that lived in NYC, but we broke up a few months after I had already started law school.

I don't recommend it. Just do the ol' shuck and jive for your slavemasters and don't dare tell them the emperor has no clothes.

I'm sure that strategy hasn't worked out well for you.

I got a job offer from them

[BuckinghamB]

just say you want corporate

[oblig.lawl.ref]

"Why NYC" is such a turd question.

Lawyers ask mostly turd questions and lots of people get them wrong so I'm not sure who comes out a winner in that case.

When you ask turd questions, you should expect turd answers.

On a brighter note, I actually have a policy of not BSing during interviews. Someone asked me why I moved to NYC from California, and I told them the truth -- I was seeing a girl that lived in NYC, but we broke up a few months after I had already started law school.

I don't recommend it. Just do the ol' shuck and jive for your slavemasters and don't dare tell them the emperor has no clothes.

I'm sure that strategy hasn't worked out well for you.

When I OCI'd last year lying to get cbs was in vogue due to a certain interviewing guide that was stickied and revered. It totally fucked me. I almost struck out. Since then and part way through the interviewing process I converted to a not lying policy that has served me well. I may spin things on the edges but I do not bold faced BS. I have gotten like 5x the cbs that way.

To the point of the thread I normally talk about the quality of the work--because I'm into corp and that's believable. In a lot of ways it is better in NYC than anywhere else if you're into that.