I WOULD MOVE TO NEW YORK | Epic 3 Day Brand Trip With
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- "I want to be a part of it.. NEW YORK, NEW YORK" but actually, NYC is absolutely worth the hype in my opinion. This was my third trip to the city and a special one at that because Google invited me on an incredible press trip to check out their new office in Manhattan and learn all about new product features that are coming out this holiday season. So come join me for a fun vlog of the city touring some of my favourite spots and see first hand what an influencer brand trip is like!
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I moved to NYC 20 years ago, and despite all the ups and downs, NYC is still the most amazing, intellectually stimulating, walkable, and physically appealing, with the most interesting and amazing people worldwide. Living a good life here is a privilege and a pleasure. I have been to more than 70 countries and have spent extended periods across many great cities worldwide. I was in Sofia last year also. The more I travel the world, the more I love returning to NYC. I know it is not for everyone, but no city is. To each its own. Wish you all the best with your move. Eastern Europe has an incredible charm of its own.
Just visited New York a few weeks ago. Spend time in Brooklyn and loved it. We took a ferry and the subway to Manhatten and we had the best time! Amazing city!
Visiting and living in big city is two separate things.
Loving this vlog Ali. So happy you got to visit New York again 🤩
Hello, Alina! Your tour of New York City was really so beautiful! I was there once a decade ago and I miss that time so much now! I would love to visit there again one day if I ever get the chance, hehhe! Even though it is facing a lot of problems now, New York is still such an iconic city and always will be! Thank you for sharing! Cheers!
you totally should - maybe audition for Broadway shows too #johncasablancas
Visited back in 2012 and loved it Alina! Looks like you really had a good trip and good time there. How awesome of Google to do these type of things. Thanks for sharing.
NYC is like a durian. Hard on the outside, soft on the inside. You either hate it, or you loooooove it
Wish you had a great time in NYC. All the best for your new adventure. Merry X-mas and have a happy new year in advance. Next year will be another incredible time as well for you.
I loved the video, Alina. Thank you for sharing it with us. You certainly do live an exciting life!
I can't tell you how much I like this city, I can't believe you're here. I love this city too, Thank you so much for sharing this video with us, It makes me feel good. 🇺🇸🗽🙂👍
Alina exhibits "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade". Life surprises her, and then she takes those "lemons" to make lemonade. Good work, ma'am.
New York is an expensive city to live in so unless you’re paid to come there or have a high paying job lined up, the cost of living isn’t manageable if you’re budget minded. It has a lot of culture, nightlife and places to eat out and Google gave you once in a lifetime opportunity to see it! Alina, be happy you got to see a dream fulfilled! But live there full time? Not under present circumstances but you never know, things could change and then it might be a suitable home base for a digital monad! Thanks for showing us NY and as always, looking forward to your next video! 😊
Very true!
I really like this style blog where you dive a little more into your daily life. Great fun video.
Glad you liked it! There will definitely be more of this style to come when I am moving to Bulgaria.
Thank you to showed me the union square west and google building. I did not know about it. I saw Christmas MArket is at union square west park as well. Very interesting. Energy so good and optimist there
Alina, beautiful as always. This side of New York is mighty gorgeous; love everything through your lense. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍
Thank you so much!
Nice video of NY city . Best of luck with the interview
Best city in the world, by far. I’ve been telling you, you’d thrive in NYC Alina! Hopefully one day soon. I’m ten times happier in NYC than I was in Toronto.
It's a good city, but there are better cities in the world and u should visit them.
@ I’ve lived in London and traveled to other parts of Europe and Japan. My comment stands and it’s more to do with overall life, opportunities, etc
@@ChasingBogeys cost of living is too high and it's very small and old buildings
@ I live here and in a nicer condo than I had in Toronto. But I agree that you need $250k + to live a decent life and more around $350k to be chill. It’s definitely not for everyone, but if you have the resources, there’s nothing like it.
@@ChasingBogeyshaving that money in others cities you'll be rich with all possible opportunities
Im from New York City (Brooklyn) but I recently moved to Paris! I feel like Nyc, you can leave it but it will still always have a special place in you heart ❤
Loved the Woody Allenesque homage to the NY skyline at the beginning....classy!!!
Went to Lillies this summer. They had pink flowers all over. We also had the crème brûlée 😅. Such a nice place!!
My favorite video from the Big Apple! 🗽🇺🇸
Glad you liked it :)
Welcome back to America✈️ 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇧🇬🇺🇦
Talia was nursing in New Haven Connecticut a few years ago. We visited her and took the train to New York where we did the usual tourist things, statue of liberty ,grand central station and empire state building etc. we had a great time and enjoyed the trip. Enjoyed your video. Ken
Hello Alina! 😄🙏👋✨🌟 I hope your having a wonderful day! This is a fantastic super excellent video! 😁👍❤️👏📹🇺🇸🗽🍎🏙🥇💯💫✨🌟 The city of New York does look really amazing! Also the hotel room suite at the Standard Hotel, the Highline, the new Google offices, Times Square, Central Park and the Little Island at Pier 54 is so absolutely marvelous! Even the food at Miznon, Google and Lillie’s Victorian Establishment restaurant looks so really delicious! I would definitely like to visit New York City one day again. I have been there many times. It truly is a magnificent city! Thank you so very much Alina to share with us this wonderful video. You are the best and greatest world traveler adventurer ever! 🙂👍👏🌎📹✈️🧳🗺🏆🥇💯💫🌟 I wish you Alina a excellent marvelous amazing blessed day. 😊🙏❤️👋👍💫✨🌟
I visited New York with a friend last year. Spent a week there and thoroughly enjoyed it. Your video brought back the feeling of excitement of being there. We visited many of the major attractions, but we also used our 7-day metro passes to explore whatever caught our attention. We found people to be extremely helpful, although when we mentioned this, people were surprised. We loved the High Line, so I appreciated seeing it in your video. I hope I can go back and explore some more sometime in the future.
All the best, Alina! I think that Bulgaria is indeed a great choice for people that have their own digital businesses. Just be patient with the slow Bulgarian burocractic system and all will be great! Even for Bulgarian citizens it is always very slow and inefficient, however trust the process! :) I read that Sofia will have a 3rd airport at some point so maybe there will be even more direct connections with Asia and the far east. 🎉
Superb video! Fascinating from start to finish. I live not all that far from NYC and have visited many times but your video gave me a tour that offered so many new views and insights it was, to me, almost like a place I'd never been to before Absolutely wonderful! Good luck in Bulgaria and it will be a joy to see your videos from there
I'm so glad, thank you!
I love NYC. Miss it a lot. Haven't been there in a long while.
The black dress was super cute! Loved this NYC vlog. Would be fun to see you do a U.S. series.
That looks like a very cool trip! NYC is one of those places that I have never been but I will get there one day for a visit.
I'd love to visit New York, but my God! I couldn't afford to live there! I suspect my Irish paternal side started in NYC during the Irish Potato Famine because my paternal grandpa was born next door in Kearney, NJ in 1893. NYC was the immigration port in that region. I was born in 1973, one generation separated from the Victorian Era! Good video, Alina, I wish you luck in Bulgaria and hope you ultimately come back home to North America. ❤
Highline is fantastic place to walk. Stay Awesome Alina...
The City that never sleeps. (I’m a native Noo Yawka). Excellent video again. Yes, the excitement and connections are your world. And like so many others I follow and care aboat your choices. Think of this; in a major city you would be one of countless talented young people. With planning and judgment you can amplify your talent, exposure, and connections to a unique level in Bulgaria. Not dropping off the Google map, the world is a plane ride away eh.
I am from Malaysia. Love, love the Socks paired with Hugo Boss outfit!
NYC makes for a great weekend trip... restaurants, museums, and just good to walk around.
New York City is cool if you see yourself succeeding there or you are wealthy and can hobnob with all the beautiful people.
New York City , The Big Apple 🍎 Welcomes Alina 😊 🗽
Thank you!
Fantastic Jazz at the 12 minute mark!
Good Morning Alina! I was in New York City in May 2024 and it was my first time there in 12 years. I have family over there and I love the city. My only con about the city is that it is expensive. Hope you had a great time in the Big Apple 🍏
You should visit Miami, Florida if you ever get the chance to go
Thank you! Would love to visit Miami sometime
@@AlinaMcleod If you ever decide to visit Miami, it would be great to meet each other. Miami is expensive too but not as expensive as New York City
The Edge and the Vessel, yep. Been there, done that.🙂
I went in the vessel before it closed.
It did reopen by you can’t go to the top anymore.
Oh no what is TO going to think nice vid Alina hope you had fun .
Wow, you are here. And you picked the coldest week so far this year
Did she come today?
Probably last week. Super cold last week as well
Awesome New York City. Best wishes!
God Bless America!
drone footage was amazing !!
Not mine personally, but thank you!
NYC is definitely a special place. I would go back just for the pizza and delicious amazing food. But I haven't had a chance to go back since March 2020 :(
Harriet went to school at NYU and worked in the city for 10 years and knows the city well. We have relatives that live there and visit. Sounds like you had a great time there. We have a question for you ? Would you work for Google if they offered you a position with them ? New York City is what you make of it. It is expensive. If you are a go getter, this is the place for you.
and use common sense when personal security is concerned. This vlog brings back many nice memories from when we were there last. Great vlog Alina ❤ Sending you much love ❤
from Harriet, Jim and Yuki Richmond, Va.
Glad you guys got to experience it so indepth as well! To be honest while I think working at Google would be AMAZING, at this point in time I still prefer what I'm doing and would just prefer to collab with them :)
I've been to Miznon! I love Chelsea Market! NYC
That's it. Alina now I gotta go to the fridge and get one . 😢 gonna get a diet violation😊
I am glad you had a great time in NYC. I have enjoyed my time in the city the times I have visited over the last couple of decades. I have had friends in the past who either grew up on the area or lived in NYC for many years. I must say though NYC isn't tor the faint of heart.
No it certainly isn't!
I worked in New York City ( and lived in Queens area ) for 10 years and had a wonderful time.
👋😄Hi Alina, glad to see you in the USA. Well, finally you saw New York, you saw these crazy people and dirty streets and the way they drive cars.😂 It's a pity I'm busy working in Los Angeles right now, I have a friend who lives there and I visit him three times a year. If I were in New York, I would meet you. Have a great trip and city tours, despite my skepticism, New York is a very lively city and it is very beautiful there, it is a pure city. I lived in New York for a year with my best friend, he likes noisy cities, so he's in Chicago now, but I prefer quiet cities.Your Huseyn is from Los Angeles.🇦🇿🇺🇸👍💓💓💓
I heard LA is becoming homeless mess, is it true ?
@jonasjonaitis2949 Yes, you are right. Especially downtown, but I don't live in Los Angeles itself, but in Santa Monica. It's cleaner and quieter there, but expensive.
Alina - Happy to see you in my home town and glad that NYC treated you right. Your vid’s keep getting better. A question: This May I will be visiting your soon to be new hometown Sofia for some work and was curious what your choices for 3 or 4 days in Bulgaria outside Sofia would be? Plovdiv? Somewhere on the Black Sea (is mid May too early)? Somewhere else? Thanks. Steve
Thanks very much, Steve! Awesome you're going to get to visit Bulgaria and especially in the warm months. I would recommend Varna, Plovdiv and then also a mountain village if you're able to rent a car. Shiroka Laka was where I mainly stayed in the Rhodope Mountains and the area around was amazing.
@@AlinaMcleod Thank you for your input on your new home, I will go back and watch some of your Bulgaria vids.
BTW: I live near Union Square and you walked by my home. NYC is for dreamers as you say and I have no doubt that you could make it here. When a ball player learns to hit the fastball as you increasingly have they belong in the major leagues.
A condo on Park Avenue overlooking central park , I wouldn't mind it.
Me neither! lol
The 21:25 mark slightly precedes a claim by Alina of a so-called “hustle culture” in NYC. There’s a reason the late Frank Sinatra, in one of his songs, called that city one “that doesn’t sleep.“
You should try to find a Job in a Modeling Recruiting Agency or a Marketing Agency in NYC to move there 😉
Make some videos with the Pixel phone 📱
You're sounding quite friendly and from the heart ❣️ here in the NYC.
God Bless You 🍀🙏
NYC is the most amazing place in USA
Quote right ✅️ about opportunities propping up just as you prepare for something else but one thing for sure the taxes plus expenses are extremely high in n.y.
Hi , i have been in NY city still awesome city ....have fun, you deserve it. you should visit chicago i h been in this summer ...beautiful city in usa .
Thank you! Chicago is definitely on my list. I've actually not been able to visit a lot of the US just yet.
Love your videos… much love from Vancity 🇨🇦
Thank you!
If that was really your just woken up face, good! 😂
I prefer CAL any day to NY. I like warmer weather. I liked shopping in NY. Cheap and lots of selection. You look beautiful naturally.
Cheap shopping in NY ? That's interesting. Many complain NY is super expensive city
@jonasjonaitis2949 You need to go to factory outlets or Macy's, when they have a sale. I purchased items, which were 75% cheaper than my city.
Your videos are always so professional! As a USA citizen, I love NYC but as a tourist. It's a great city but for many residents it's a 12+ hour daily grind with work, commuting, etc. I'd only want to live there if I were rich. Happy Holidays!
Totally agree. I would only want to live in Manhattan if I was very rich lol.
NY is a place that's great to visit but I cant imagine living there.
The hotel room is reminiscent of a Cruise Ship cabin. New York City will be there when you can afford it .
Interesting video. I may go there next year. Thanks
New York, New York, I've visited many times, in movies and TV shows. In the real world, nope, never been close. I'm not a big city fan except for short stays. London, Taipei, Singapore, Hong Kong, LA, and Tokyo are the only big cities I've spent much time in. Of course, Tokyo may make me change my mind. New York like Toronto make me want to experience the theatre scene. I've only done that in the West End in London a bit. Since I'm me, I can get my big city fix curated by Alina.
It's funny how just when you've made a decision, life gives you options that you couldn't make happen for good or bad. Since you were there now Google is being looked at by US government, and may end up in a Standard Oil type breakup. So the Google of today, may not be the Google of tomorrow.
This was a nice little tour that without you, I'd never have any idea about.
Have a good one.
Well there's no denying that Tokyo is the best city in the world ;)
Thanks again, appreciate !
I have been there 3 times. I had great fun each time.
I don't know whether to laugh or fall down or both!
New York is where I would not ever live but cool to visit!🇨🇦❤️👍
Must've been good wine. No hangover 😮😊
Congrats. . . .If you can make it there you can make it everywhere . . . New York . . . New York
It's really a mesmerizing presentation 👍
Just awesome ❤ New York 😊
I visited Manhattan during the heatwave of July 1999
Good day as always!❤
Wishing you the best of luck ❤❤
Me too 👍
Fall and Spring are wonderful times to be in NYC. Summer and Winter...not my thing.
Stay in the US!🎉❤😊
lol it doesn't work like that
@@AlinaMcleod I certainly hope so!!!😄 BTW, I just came back from visiting ZhangJiaJie, and as you described, it was amazing!🤩
@@ps7880 that's awesome! Glad you loved it too :)
Hello Alina. You are looking absolutely fabulous and sophisticated. 😮 I love New York, must go back. I call the woman's voice on Google maps Susan. 😅 👍😊🇮🇪💙🇺🇲
Thank you very much!
Good morning god's mother I'm happy to see you good health and safe and still pretty God bless you all ways and your family ❤😊
Great look at NY😊❤
Hi Alina how are your progress in regards to moving to Bulgaria? You should be highly focused on your plans for the future as your main goal was to relocate to Europe.
Saludos desde bogota 🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
The postcard club is a clever idea. Support your favorite influencer.... Ahem, I mean "content creator" & have something fun to stick on your refrigerator. This is a quality marketing campaign. Make the big G look good and attract talent, Alina gets the princess treatment for a few days in NYC. Everybody wins!
haha thank you
Thanks, How do rate a good walking and hiking waterproof boots? I am not good with technology. Thanks 👍
Nice trip to New York 😀
Too much crime there. But, I really liked what you showed! There are very nice parts of New York City as well.
Welcome back to NYC Alina!
Congrats on the brand trip with Google!🎉 The Universe always surprises us when we least expect it. 😊
As a New Yorker there is no place like NYC. It is a true convergence of so many cultures and has an energy and vibe that cannot be replicated! Glad you love the city too! ❤
Thank you, Ingrid! I agree, NYC is on another level with so much to offer!
I find more money on the ground walking than google pays
Fabulous video and melodious music wonderful effort Alina. Enjoyed a lot.
Thank you so much!
I own a Google Pixal phone and love it.
Que lindo y hermoso son todas las siudades de estados unidos son encantadoras.
So you want to know experiences with NYC. My experience with NYC is going across the Brooklyn Bridge where 6 lanes of traffic on a 12 lane road that narrows to 3 lanes. Need I say more than I could look at everyone else's car in Warren, OH , the largest city that I was living near at the time. So why did I come to NYC for this? The message I got from this was never listen to someone from Canada or New England when planning a trip to a large city unless they tell how to effectively use public transportation. For that matter, I got stuck in a traffic jam on a four lane ( 2 in each direction) last night. I exited the highway and took the backroads home. The road had glaze ice covered in snow at many locations. I got home at 3:30 am. There is no public transportation out here. This is one disadvantage of living here over living in a large city. The other disadvantage is that we get alot of ice in the winter because it hovers around freezing for most of the winter. The rain during the day turns to ice at night. During the winter I miss places like Milwaukee or a Toronto where there is little lake effect snow. Our weather is similar to NYC. 😅 I like to use Google Earth so that I can see the terrain and Google Translator for my Spainish speaking co-workers. ( that out number me) Does anyone know how well Google Spreadsheet works? Is it better than Libre' Excel?( which is a great and free replacement for Microsoft Excel)
it seems that so many people hold different opinion towards NY in this episode.
Thanks for sharing
Wish you luck alina, from K Lumpur malaysia.
Great 👍
New York City is exciting - lots of things to see, do and amazing places to eat. Otherwise lots of bums and homeless people live in NYC. The costs for everything is through the roof.Most people are also rude like they have an attitude problem.
So NY or Toronto? 😊