half-baked idea of the day:
new york as "the place for people who love places" ...
new york is such a great place, and therefore populated by people who love great places and that is why people get so preoccupied w/ it. which is to say, new yorkers are not obsessed w/ nyc because it is a great place per se, but because people who care about places concentrate here. many new yorkers would probably be obsessed with any place they live if they happened to live there ... but it just so happens they concentrate here ... because its a great place to live ;) ... ok, so maybe its circular logic.
i always love that convo about like "whats it like out there" re: any city or region. like when you meet someone from somewhere and just talk about place generalities ... like, "ya, california is nice. the weather is great. but the people are fake". it is so not of the internet era .. i mean we are in the age of free information transfer ... you can instantly know anything no matter where you are ... but the info of what its actually like to be in a place cant be teleported
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the conclusion is correct. equally people often manage to make the claim that "everything" is in nyc. actually only buildings plus cuisine and dvd's from all over the globe. and yes people too. the "great" thing about the people in nyc is that they never stop thinkin... furthermore they never stop thinkin about the things they're thinkin about.
besides in my experience most places are more similar than they are different. esp cities obviously.
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