I stumbled across this site by Phil Hollenback. After moving from Northern California to New York City, he started keeping notes of the observations he made about the differences between the two places.
My favorite observation has to be this one:
I was walking to work today and saw some workmen shoveling something out of a dump truck into wheelbarrows and wheeling them into a building. Couldn't figure out what it was - the stuff was all shiny black embers. Then I realized - they were delivering coal! I have never, ever seen that before.
Check out the list of notes. Some of them are really hilarious. I live in Boston, not NYC, but there are a lot of observations he made that are relevant to New England in general.
Glad you enjoyed my commentary on moving to NYC!