I'm on Long Island, so a 40 min train ride to the city. I got a few times a month usually, and I probably prefer the city over LI right now because LI has gotten so crowded, but doesn't have the advantages of the city. Like if it's going to take me forever to get anywhere due to traffic, I would prefer to have a bunch of awesome restaurants within walking distance, or a simple subway ride away. Also, you need a car on LI, whereas you don't in the city, yet most people commute to the city via the train, so having a car and paying for it here is such a waste, yet the public transportation on LI isn't convenient enough allow you the freedom to still go out wherever you want without needing a car.
I don't like it as much here as I used to though, after going away to school for a few years in a rural area. I got used to not having to wear brand name shit all the time, and people not being dicks all the time. Like up there people say hello to strangers while walking, but here, that's how you start a fight. At school I was shocked when people were saying hello to me and holding the door, since I had never seen that before. I threw some elbows when my friend came up to me from behind up there, because by me that's how you get jumped, but up there that's just them dicking around. I remember that same kid was saying to me after I told him I was from LI that his other friend from LI was saying how heroin was so popular there, and I was just acting kinda oblivious like wow, that must have been after I graduated from high school. I kinda loved the aspect of living a separate life up there. Only a few people knew my deal with drugs, but it took a long time for me to tell them that.
As for my dope habits, I love to talk when I'm on dope, so I like going out with people. I actually kinda redeem myself when I go out to the bars with my friends when I am on dope, because I don't drink more than a beer or 2 on dope, yet I used to get blackout drunk all the time, so they think I'm doing a lot better now haha. Like my friends will get wasted and see me appearing to be fine, and then start asking me for advice and shit, but little do they know I am on dope. Some of them have thought I was using coke because of talking a lot from the dope, and that kinda pissed me off for some reason. Like I was actually gonna correct them like "Hey pal, I'm on heroin, not cocaine. Get it right!" I think I've corrected them and just said I was on vicodin though, since it's a lot more acceptable, and you really can't tell the difference in which opiate I am on, and nobody will really question it unless I am nodding out, which hasn't happened in public like that yet.