NYC vs Epcot

Not long before leaving Tampa I spent a weekend at one of the most travelled destinations in the US, Disney's Epcot Center. This past weekend I spent roaming the streets of NYC, these are my observations...
Epcot boasts the elaborate adventures of "around the world travel". For a few hundred bucks, you and a friend can spend the day travelling from 'country' to 'country' 'experiencing' 'culture' after 'culture'. Tasting different supposed country favorites for the cost of several hours of minimum wage employment. The employees are dressed in traditional garb of their native countries and are of course armed with that Disney-Smile :). From country to country you can sip a native cocktail for somewhere around $10 a pop, and in the end you walk away penniless and feeling no more cultured than you were when you parked your American-made car for $25 in Orlando, Fl.
On the other hand, I'm pretty certain there are tons of cheap round-trip tickets flying in and out of LaGuardia airport daily. Between Soho, Times Square, and the Lower East side, more countries are represented than Walt ever dreamed of. Delicious cuisine from all over the globe is offered some times right on top of each other. Granted no one guarantees anyone in NYC to be decked out in their native land's attire, but if you don't see anyone, you're blind. The cheapest beer I saw being served was $6 (which is a little steep for a bud light, I will admit) and I definitely never saw anyone with flashing a Disney-Smile :),but let's get real-more bang for the buck?!?! The diversity within the city is profound and i don't think that it could be replicated anywhere else in the world.
The trip was phenomenal. A total of 3 trains hauled us from our front porch in Philly dumping us at Penn Station in the city. The first day was spent in cab after cab until we figured out navigating the much cheaper subway system. We saw the likes of Ground-Zero, Times Square at night, the MOMA (LOVED IT), a comedy show on Broadway, shopping in Soho...our days were packed. I'm not sure how long I could deal with the hustle and bustle of so many people in one area, but I have to admit, I fell in love with the city.
My only sour thought/ lesson-learned about the Big Apple, don't eat at the gangster bodega that's advertising Boars Head but somehow the meats are label less-even if it is just downstairs from your apt. and you are so hungover you can't possibly walk any further and you need food right that very minute OR ELSE...
I'll tell ya or else-its called girardia-WOW