Real Housewives of NYC Season 2

Hey everyone,


Welcome to another sunny, yet cold (and currently still snowy) day in fabulous NYC. Today's topic has to do with Season 2 of the Real Housewives of NYC. Is anyone else obsessed with the show as much as I am? I started to wonder the other day why I like the show, why I'm obsessed with their social schedule, and I realized that it's because these women are at a stable place in their lives in which they have it all. They have their social lives, families, husbands, children, careers, philanthropic endeavors and traveling ability due to their financial situations. They have NY like I do but they lead more well balanced lives, almost as if they are in an elevated New York state of mind, compared with a younger, single City girl like me. But there's more to it than that. The fact that they get to live both their NYC lives and their Hamptons lives plus additional traveling makes them desirable to me because they have it all: their cosmopolitan center, their busy, yet more over the top suburban Hamptons lives and their ability to both relax in and work in both environments. Oh yes, and now they're all on national television and they get to do press work, write books, do magazine shoots and probably get some free stuff-sounds like my kind of ordeal. Most if not all of the women on the show either have had careers or are still working currently while balancing their family and social lives. Now this has been my favorite part of analyzing the Housewives series Bravo TV phenomnom; comparing the NY women with the Los Angeles women; the greatest different between the two shows is while a number of the women on the real housewives of OC had careers, some of them did not work and for that reason, they are not as strong of role models for women, however that does not mean that they are not intelligent or incapable, but rather that they lead different lives and thus balance less compared with women that do work and have families. However, I will also mention that I believe the women on the real housewives of NYC are more likable, they come across as quicker, they seem more interesting, and they are not at caddy as the women on the OC. While I feel uncomfotable at times watching the RHO OC, I feel more at ease watching the NY version, it just seems more real to me. Maybe that's what it's all about-being real, and if that's true than my feelings must also be, as New York is definitely more REAL than OC.

Until next time, stay real NY -The Know it all New Yorker-