"carrigman" wrote in message
news:djdaoj$hl5$1@reader01.news.esat.net...
> A brilliant city and a great place to visit but....
>
> 1. Why can't the marked prices on things include the NYC sales tax? It's
> annoying when you
> see something for sale for, say, 9.99 only to find you have to pay an
> additional 8% or whatever
> extra. In Europe the marked price is inclusive of all taxes. NYC should
> catch up.
>
> 2. How come there are so few internet cafes? I eventually happened on one,
> by sheer chance, in
> West 33rd Street. In European cities they are plentiful. One would have
> thought that with the
> amount of visitors to NYC there would be a ready market for many more
of
> them in the city.
>
> 3. What's with all the honking? If traffic is held up for an instant there
> is a cacophany of car horns
> being sounded. Again, not something one hears in most European cities.
Anything else they can do to make it more like "home", John?
Isn't this the type of thing that Europeans, and other nations, have long
complained about Americans doing when they travel - wanting to know why
things aren't the same as they are at home?
This is why we travel.
|