The Top Ten Reasons to Live in NYC, By An Alien

Why does Thought Catalog contributor and Toronto native Iris Milanova want to live in New York City?

Why does Thought Catalog contributor and Toronto native Iris Milanova want to live in New York City?
"19 Reasons Why 19 Is The Most Formative Year of Your Life." #7: "Robert Frost's The Road Less Travelled is now not a nonconformist manifesto, but instead a chilling dose of existential reality. *If you haven't read it, do so now."
"A communications degree is not something to be taken lightly." Today's gem only gets more hilarious from there.
A Thanksgiving spent away from the internet is NOT an excuse to miss out on Thought Catalog's holiday bounty—of love.
Post-collegiate wailing wall Thought Catalog is more than a just a place for 20somethings to write about dumb bullshit; it's a place for 20somethings to share their valuable life lessons.
The final word on the Julianne Hough blackface controversy comes, naturally, from Thought Catalog: "I am in fact, a white person... is your average person, like in real life, who’s just going about their day, actually upset about this? Because no one I’ve spoken to personally seems to think it’s that big of a deal."
Last week, 20 year-old New School student Rachael Sacks wrote a brash Thought Catalog essay that showed her to be a pompous rich girl full of self-regard. She quickly became the subject of a global media firestorm. In the end, Rachael Sacks may turn out to be more mature than we thought.
Today, a rich girl college student takes to the internet to voice her displeasure that "bitter and unhappy" poors are looking at her sideways just because she is, to reiterate, a rich girl. Thought Catalog? Thought Catalog.
"How This Syrian Situation Reminds Me of High School" is just a great Thought Catalog headline.
Child psychologists are now being told to acknowledge that 25—and not 18—is the cut-off age for adolescence. These new guidelines, defining 18-25 as “late adolescence,” will apparently stop children from feeling “rushed” though childhood.
If you're not feeling bad enough about the end of summer, read this. You'll feel bad about autumn, and humanity in general.
A Thought Catalog essay headlined "I Got Yelled At By An Inner City Kid At A YMCA Camp" begins, "I never went to public school. This is probably for the best because frankly I don’t think I would have survived." Must read!
Thought Catalog presents, "25 Rules For Living From a (Semi-)Successful 26-Year-Old," by Ryan Holiday, a young flack who is "successful" because he wrote a book about lying to journalists on behalf of noted misogynist media whores. Sounds interesting.
The art of storytelling is dead. (Related.)
"An Interview With The Woman Who Brushed Her Teeth With Feces To Impress Hunter Moore." Bring back shame.
#SlatePitches for kids.
Ricky Gervais is one of the most hated entertainers in America. Remember when he hosted the Golden Globes and was super horrible to everyone? Yeah, kind of unforgettable really.
For the fortunate ones who don't know, Thought Catalog is a site where millennials go to write about sex, Xanax, other drugs, and what it's like to live in Brooklyn. Some might even call it a "me-centric angst dump." Thought Catlog is now here to save the publishing industry with their very own line of e-books.
A bracing Thought Catalog essay explores the trials and tribulations of dating an older woman. Four years older.
Wall Street's favorite Times reporter and Lorimer Street's favorite twentysomething blog agree: Occupy Wall Street Sux.