Reply #107: Actually, what's fascinating is how neurotic and self-defensive people are about a place

[Warren DeMontague]

that is supposed to be so self-evidently superior in every regard.

Places like, say, San Francisco don't need to puff themselves up and be all "in your face, yo" (another charming East Coast trait.. ugh.) to convince people how culturally indispensable they are-- in fact, most people on the West Coast have better things to do than give a shit.

Like go outside.


ps, sister, I survived living in downtown Chicago in the post Reagan-Bush I recession. There's nothing Manhattan could threaten me with that even remotely scares me.

And likewise, nothing it could offer that remotely interests me.

My attitude towards NYC is sort of like my attitude towards Vegas, except I can find Vegas interesting for 3-4 days.... NYC maybe for a weekend, tops.