Maybe I should go on facebook more...

 

Chelsea Manhattan - losing its charm because we lost:
CVS, Rite Aid, Taco Bell and McDonalds
(plus the tennis club and the movie theater)

OK so RIP the Tennis Club and the movie theater and admittedly I was sad when the 24-hour Super Duane Reed on 8th Avenue closed a few years ago, but... since when are we thinking that two chain drug stores with regular business hours and no downstairs with a sock department and/or a couple fast food joints added charm and character to the neighborhood? I mean, we're not even talking about a fancy restaurant chain like Olive Garden. God forbid one of the seven Starbucks goes out. 

Anyway, I would have missed the whole commentary on this sad sad state of affairs if I hadn't haphazardly logged into Facebook this morning to see if there were any FOMO concerns for not logging in for however long. Spoiler alert - there were not.

Turns out that right underneath this Chelsea post... seems like the only thing I get these days in my feed are cat videos, videos of humans doing dumb shit on trampolines, and posts from people in groups I must have joined at some point... but right underneath this Chelsea post was this one from "Swedes of New Jersey":

Hey let's make a life change!

So if you don't read Swedish here's the skinny: This Swedish lady met a man who lives in New Jersey. Now she's thinking hard about moving to New Jersey. She has never actually been to New Jersey however. She wonders, "is it even possible to move from Sweden to New Jersey?"

Also, she has three kids who would need to move too.

....

This is a lot to take in. I mean, is this lady just gonna read through the comments and then decide if it's a go/no-go? (If it's even possible to move to New Jersey, that is.) 

I mean, at a minimum she should post the questions on Quora. 

(That was a joke).

But here on Facebook, people in the comments offered a range of advice, from, oh Hey, maybe. you should actually visit New Jersey and this man, like for example, take a long vacation in the area before uprooting yourself and your three kids and, who knows, getting sold as sex slaves?

Others talked at length about how much health insurance costs here and which towns are nicer than other towns. Fair points, but possibly not, you know, the most pressing problem at least as I see it.

In the good news department, some members of the houseplant group I apparently belong to got rid of their aphids with a totally organic soap spray.