Oct 12, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 16 segments
Why do we keep coming back to New York City? Travel writers Joelle Machia and Ryan Slough have a lot of answers, and they’re not what the typical headlines say. Joelle has just wrapped a week in the…
Joelle MachiaGuestLisa D. SmithHost
Ryan SloughGuest
My parents were immigrants from France, and so I was born in New York City, lived here for just a few months before moving to Jersey.
But since then, because it wasn't far from where we were in Jersey, I'd come a couple times with my youth.
as well as worked New York City for a while in my early 20s at Memorial Sloan Kettering when I was still in nursing school and have been back and forth since, went through a couple decades where I didn't come.
When I commuted, when I was working in New York City, it was during the really rough years You know, it was impressive.
People were like, oh, isn't that so dangerous? Even then, though, as much as I seek now compared to then, we are in a very different place than we were all the years ago.
The sense of community here when you really start watching the amount of families here.
How many people are you walking out of their residential buildings or their brownstones? And they have children.
My parents were immigrants from France, and so I was born in New York City, lived here for just a few months before moving to Jersey.
But since then, because it wasn't far from where we were in Jersey, I'd come a couple times with my youth.
as well as worked New York City for a while in my early 20s at Memorial Sloan Kettering when I was still in nursing school and have been back and forth since, went through a couple decades where I didn't come.
When I commuted, when I was working in New York City, it was during the really rough years You know, it was impressive.
People were like, oh, isn't that so dangerous? Even then, though, as much as I seek now compared to then, we are in a very different place than we were all the years ago.
The sense of community here when you really start watching the amount of families here.
How many people are you walking out of their residential buildings or their brownstones? And they have children.
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