Living in New York City means having access to the best of everything: food, entertainment, shopping. Every movie premieres here and every store brick and mortars here. Every band includes MSG in the tour and every sneaker drops here. When I moved to Manhattan the only thing that I had to acclimate to a worse standard of was tennis. I’ve tried several different facilities before deciding I don’t love tennis enough to put up with the inconvenience and lousy quality of local drills. I quote Cher Horowitz, “Standing in line for forty minutes is hardly aerobically effective. I doubt I've worked off the calories in a stick of Carefree gum.” May you learn from my misadventures.

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