I just broke up with my boyfriend of a year. One of the last conversations we had revolved around him saying how "hard" our relationship was - and he
implied that our living situations caused it. He lives in the East Village; I live in Washington Heights. So it's far, yes, but it's not like anyone lives in Jersey.
Is his complaint legitimate or was he a jackass looking for an excuse to end a relationship (which, by the way, just a few weeks before he had been committed
to working on)?
His excuse set off the BS-detector at Ask Gothamist HQ. So, yeah, we think that's totally bogus.
We know from experience that it takes less than an hour to get from Washington Heights to the East Village (except maybe when they do track maintenance on the weekends and the A runs local). New York is such an extensive city, though, that this could be said about any distance between two points. We know people in Queens who sit on the subway an hour or more each day just to get to work in Midtown. And then, you know, they go back again at the end of the day.
But, okay, it's kind of annoying to get to Washington Heights from anywhere on the east side. It usually involves cross-town busses and/or several subway transfers. But whatever. Like you say, it's not like one of you lives in Jersey. If your SO lives in a neighborhood on the other end of the island (or even *gasp* in another boro!) just do what we all do: accept that half your life is spent in a subway car, anyway, and bring a book or your iPod along for the ride.
In conclusion: we vote jackass. That seems like a pretty hollow excuse. Something more sinister was probably going on, so it's good for you that he left when he did.
