Who wouldn’t admit to wanting life to be more like a holiday? The truth is that most people are keen to enjoy life more, and the feeling that you get when you are on holiday is one that is unmatched at any other time in life. But it is not always necessary to keep these parts of your life so separate, and indeed if you are keen to try and make more of life then you might want to think about what you can do to make life more like a holiday. In this post, we are going to take a look at some of the essential things that you are going to want to consider in order to make life more like a holiday. You might be surprised at how easy this can be, and it’s something that you will certainly want to think about. Let’s take a look.

Find A Beautiful Place To Live

One of the first things you will want to do in order to live life like a holiday is to make sure that you find somewhere truly beautiful to live. That means both that you need to find a good location, but also that you should make a point of getting your hands on the kind of building that you would enjoy being in for extended periods of time. Whether that means finding a luxury location with some condos near by, or whether it means that you are going to make much more of where you already live, you can be sure that this is central to ensuring you are living your life much more like a holiday. So make sure you don’t overlook this essential part of the process.


For most of us, food is one of the great joys in life. Whether you are a keen cook or just a keen eater, you can be sure that this too is a part of the ideal holiday-like lifestyle. Think about it: whenever you go on holiday, you make a point of eating amazing food wherever possible. Well, if you can extend that to home and your everyday life, then you can be sure that you are going to be able to enjoy your life much more like a holiday, so this is definitely something to think about for that reason. Find good restaurants, learn to cook well at home, and you will soon be living in much greater luxury indeed just for that.


But most of all, it’s a matter of allowing yourself to relax as much as possible. If you can learn to fully and truly relax, then it will mean that you are going to enjoy your life so much more for what it is, despite what the external signs might look like and so on. Learning to relax really is a skill, and one which you might find surprisingly hard to master, so make sure that you start to do so as soon as possible if you want to make it a reality.

The city’s skyline is undergoing dramatic change in Manhattan, as well as across the East River in Brooklyn and Queens. One World Trade Center, the country’s tallest tower, rises north of Battery Park, where the first settlers built their homes. Photographs by George Steinmetz

New York City has changed a lot and we're more nostalgic now than ever. Since then, it's only grown. The towers are taller and tighter close together, there's more people than ever before, and billboards sweep across the city's buildings. But there's also a good deal about it that has stayed the same: you can still make out at South Street Seaport like Alvie and Annie or get a foodgasm at Katz Deli. It still rules.


"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
NYC Quotes New York City has captured the imaginations of many people and innovators in the world. Because of this many of the area’s landmarks and historical sites have become immortalized on film among these places, some have been more notorious in our minds and hearts. Here is a list of some of these top ‘sets’ of New York.

100 years ago, Central Park's Sheep Meadow was filled with actual sheep. Right: DW labs Incorporated/Shutterstock. Left: Library of Congress.

Someone once told me, "New York City is like a black hole, once you're here, you are trapped. But there's a better world out there with better quality of living and affordable, you just need to man up and leave" (Although with that said, I don’t know if I could ever leave New York now… once you go pizza for a dollar, you never go back). After endless of Manhattan stories, I’ve written my own observations about NYC…

• Life in Manhattan is not like the TV show 'Sex and the City'. 

Summer in NYC @nytimes building 🏙. (📷: #sillydrunkfish)

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• Life in New York City is like the TV show 'How I Met Your Mother', whether you live in Manhattan, Brooklyn or Queens. (thanks to über and lyft)

• It is perfectly normal for 22 years old to pay the equivalent of $1,500 to live in a shoebox apartment with 3 other people in an unfashionable part of Manhattan with no living room but Manhattan zipcode. 

• It is perfectly normal for a family of 5 lives in a one bedroom apartment and receiving welfare with no desire to move.

• People rent their apartment based on the nearby train station, if there's an express train in the station, the rent will expect to be at least a couple hundred dollars more than those area closer to Manhattan but located near to a local stop.

Apartment hunting is stressful but thank you Tye from @platproperties being super patient with me! 😍 (📷: #sillydrunkfish)

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• Manhattan is no longer considered a prestigious neighborhood, check DUMBO, Clinton Hill, Greenpoint, Williamsburgh, Long Island City.

• People respond to, “You alright?”, with sincere answers. 

• There's more educated, single women in New York City than the population of men in general.

• Catcalling is like seeing a homeless on the street or on the train, they are everywhere. 

• Nobody ends a text message with ‘x’. ‘Bar snacks’ are a vast plate of chicken wings or mozzarella sticks, as opposed to a tiny bag of peanuts. 

• You are never further than 3 feet away from a fashion model or any sort of celebs. 

Terry: "Yes I remember you from last week!" NYC Life 😊 @juliaj_i_l #sillydrunkfish @wanteddesign @terrycrews

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• People openly give you the look if you are from Jersey, Staten Island and the Bronx.

• People unabashedly stare on the subway. ‘Taking the bus’ is not a thing. 

• People do drugs, but it is hush-hush and frowned upon to ever mention it. 

• Williamsburgh and Bushwick can separate themselves from NYC completely, it's like Brooklyner hipster can live in their own fairy land.

• You can’t buy wine or liquor in grocery stores or news agents – all must be purchased at ‘wine and liquor’ stores. 

• Everybody is busy doing things that seem way more exciting than what you are doing. 

"I am busy" - @tbrownstudio 📷: #sillydrunkfish @housingworks

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• Traveling somewhere that takes over 20 minutes to get to feel like a long journey that deserves acknowledgement. 

• Which subways people take on their commute is a common topic of conversation. 

• You go to Central Park a lot less often than you think you will. 

• People don’t really do picnics. 

🌸 @travelmassive @NYCTM after party @thecustomhousebrooklyn 🍺 @guinness (📷: #sillydrunkfish)

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• Rather than asking, “Where did you get your shoes?” girls will often say, “Who makes your shoes?” (the assumption being that it’s a famous designer). 

• A lot of men here do yoga and a lot of vegans too. 

• New Yorkers hate Times Squares or anything ended with squares like Herald Squares.

• Seamless will change your life.

• If you don’t Soul Cycle or have a gym membership, you might as well move to Utah – you are not welcome here. 

• It is assumed that if you are single, you are casually dating a handful of people. 

• During the summer, everyone leaves the city on the weekends to go to rented houses in the Hamptons. 

• Everyone seems to be a lot richer than you are. 

#MilleniumMemories - A glass of #Chardonnay overlooking @oneworldtrade on the 55th fl Presidential Suite of @milleniumhilton 🎶😘 📷 #sillydrunkfish #downtown #ciders #carpediem #livelife #dreamchaser #dreamer #cocktail #nbc4ny #inspiration #instafollow #igdaily #igmasters #social #newyorkcity #autumn #wanderlust #vibrant #love #abc7ny #colorful #design #architecture #jazz #presidentialsuite @hiltonhotels #worldtourists

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• Drunk food here is a pizza slice and halal food. Pizza comes with a million garnishes you would never have thought of, including garlic salt. YOU CAN GET A SLICE OF PIZZA FOR $1!

"It is not death most people are afraid of, it is getting to the end of life, only to realize that you never truly lived. Why do you exist? Life is not meant to simply work, wait for the weekend and pay rent...

No, no I don’t know much. But I know this every person on this earth has a gift. We have been given a gift that we call life. Sometimes you’ve got to leap and grow your wings on the way down. So grab that microphone and be brave. Sing your heart out on life’s stage. You cannot go back and make a brand new beginning. But you can start now and make a brand new ending." - Prince Ea

More than eight million children under 6 live in approximately 49,000 slums across India and a new report ‘Forgotten voices- the world of urban #children living in India’ released today does a reality check saying that they are becoming increasingly vulnerable to a variety of risks. Photo copyright: #sillydrunkfish @peopleera

Photo copyright: #sillydrunkfish @peopleera

1) 50% of Indians don’t have proper shelter.2) 70% don’t have access to decent toilets (which inspires a multitude of bacteria to host their own disease party. Photo copyright: #sillydrunkfish @peopleera