I’ve lived in New York almost two years now, and even in that short amount of time it’s amazing to me how quickly I’ve forgotten about all of the incredible sights there are to see and the variety of things there are to do here. I guess it’s inevitable that any place you live starts to lose that wonder that it initially when you first moved there. That great coffee shop around the corner becomes just another place to get coffee, that quaint park becomes just a place you have to walk through to get somewhere else.

Sometimes, as is often said, it takes an out-of-towner to help you rediscover your home, which is what happened to me last week when I had a visitor in from out of town. What, if I had 10 days, would I do if I was a visitor in New York? The question really becomes: what won’t you do? There’s only so much time; there’s only so many restaurants; there’s only so many shows.

You always have to fashion any outing to your visitor, so a trip down 5th Avenue was a no-brainer for a visiting fashionista. I haven’t been in Tiffany’s for years (if ever) and probably won’t be anytime soon, but is there any other place in New York other than that four-storey Mecca of diamonds that evokes the grandeur of New York?

Hundreds of thousands of people picnic in Central Park every summer; why aren’t the remaining millions of residents not doing the same? Sunday in the park is classic NYC in the summer, I just wish it wasn’t already almost October for me to figure this out.

New York is food and entertainment, but only here is food also entertainment. There’s a reason so many restaurants are so hard to get into here: it’s because the food is so good. Peruvian tapas, fusion Thai, classic Italian, take-out Japanese, Brazilian Churrascaria. All in one week. Shouldn’t New Yorkers be fatter, or at least more broke with these temptations?

I’m sorry for neglecting you lately NYC, I promise to be better in the future. Maybe we can grab coffee this Sunday and catch up? Maybe see a matinee (Woody Allen’s newest?) or grab dinner next week? I’ll be better, I promise, just give me one more chance. Also, could you lower my rent? I’ll spend more on you if you do that one little thing.