I live in NYC and plan on sticking around but the truth is, the city went downhill year after year starting in 2015. As soon as you had tech companies like Google and Facebook announcing that they want to open up offices here, the ratios were no longer decent. It is not like you had more competition per se because tech guys are weird and socially awkward but the problem is that they had money and they were there. Bars and nightclubs in places such as Murray Hill, Upper East Side, Lower East Side, East Village, and the infamous Meatpacking District started flooding up with dorky losers from San Fran instead of beautiful women from all over the world.
Your typical beauty who would usually be all alone now got annoyed by awkward losers making approaches on her. Even though getting laid was possible and you were a breath of fresh air compared to these dorks, the vibe was dead. You ran into more overweight feminist harpies since the Bay Area and Toronto also sent their worst.
Then you'd go to places like Mr. Purple, Le Bain, PhD, and Brass Monkey to find Pickup Artists spam approaching girls who found them comedic. You ran into awkward dudes after awkward dudes who killed the vibe, they were usually from Toronto or California, in other words ****ty places where the women suck.
The reality is that these dudes heard NYC was the mecca for getting laid and they flooded in, which ruined the ratios and eventually the nightlife. Even though their game sucked, their sh1tty vibe ruined the whole nightlife scene because quite frankly the Bay Area sucks.
Even the female population started to suck, less European women and more women from sh1thole cities like Toronto and all of California ruining the vibe of the bar and being their typical high school popularity contest self.
NYC's golden years are far far behind it.
I think by 2022, it is going to be a horrible city for men.