Why Grow Up When NYC is Still Neverland?

New York City as Neverland is hardly a new concept ever since J. M. Barrie created the fictional land where no one grows up. But lately, it seems little bit real, and Boinkology is the latest to pick up on the concept, using Tumblr creator David Karp -- who said, “It’s really easy to be slutty these day" -- as a muse.

Boinkology's top 5 list of why New York is like Neverland revolves around sex, drugs and...more sex. Our singles city is already female dominated, and with new recruits coming in every day, the phrase "long term" has disappeared from our vocabulary. The top 5 includes:

• You’re just going to have to accept the fact that you’ll probably have roommates into your 30’s, even if you’re a multi-millionaire.

• You never need to learn how to drive — permanent adolescence!

Well, even Peter Pan probably wanted to drive.

Photograph of Peter Pan and Tinkerbell on Halloween by Zodak on Flickr

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on April 12, 2008 3:30 PM

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joeb

What's with the roommate hate? I lived by myself from 21-25 and don't intend to go back. I'm either living with friends or with a partner. I don't think people (well, by that, I mean me) do well living alone.

MFer

The never learning drive thing is only a born--or at least--raised in NYC phenomenon. For people moving here ... moot.

And I don't know anyone in their 30s living with roommates. Nonsense.

The rest is just dribble.

This is all fantasy. Now it is true that New York will never be cheaper. But that is why young people are going to keep moving in. Strange logic, but true.

matty

new york is never going to be cheaper. and young people are going to move to LA. Hopefully chicago, but probaby LA.

What a fuckfest of a city you people have created.

kcin122

I really dont understand why people think everyone is going back to Ohio if the city falls back into a shithole. If the city is cheaper more and more young people are going to move here. People are moving to Ridgewood just to be in NYC. The cheaper the city gets the closer they will get to Manhattan. Hipsters filled up the lower east side during the 70's because it was cheap. You're either going to have more carrie bradshaw's or more hipsters.

pick one.

JacqueMehoff

thankfully Pb is still cheap, for the poor and the rich.

blablanyc

I don't see a revolution happening in the era of American Idol.

blablanyc

There is something very nihilistic about all of this.

shamanovsky

#5 Babyhitler, there is no way that something like that is going to happen.

We shall keep these "revolutionaries" in jails where they belong.

babyhitler

#4- they have enough hereditary wealth to last 2 lifetimes. Rich people usually only have 1 or 2 kids or none at all. So those trustfund babies will survive any economic downturn. The only way they'd ever get any comeuppance is if we had a french revolution type thing where they eat the rich. That might happen one day though.

Eoin MacNeill

This city is set for decline. State and city government spending is oblivious to the bloodbath in the financial sector. The creative types effectively don't pay taxes. I hope the children of the wealthy took enough pictures during the second gilded age, because the Iceman Cometh.

berniegoetz

An influx of people born in the 80s, raised in the 90s and now living in post-Ghouliani NYC sounds like a perfect scenario for all-out 24/7, surrealist, consumer-fueled zaniness. Don't worry though, when the fit hits the shan, these kids will be back on the bus to Ohio in no time.

Spirit of 76

Who wants to drive when you can fly? All you have to do is believe!

shamanovsky

Shortly upon my arrival to the city I saw Jack Smith's Destruction of Atlantis:

http://www.philoctetes.org/Past_Programs/Jack_Smith_and_the_Destruction_of_Atlantis

Where his parent's are quoted saying "He was never the same after he moved to NYC".

Everything really started making sense.