Welcome to anxietytribe. The email notification system has not been notifying me about messages for several months, and in one visit you found out how to make it send emails without messages. Either that or your messages to at least three people got lost somewhere.
I lived in Manhattan for several months when I was single, and it was great. I met some really neat girls there. After I got married I moved there for two years, and it is a great place for a young married couple to live also.
I hope you find the support you are looking for here. There are some wonderful people on this site who are always ready to give advice and support. If your messages did, in fact, get lost try again.