I've been here for 20 years, and I've had the time of my life. Sure it's crowded, dirty, noisy, and way over-priced, but those of us who came here didn't expect (or care) about being comfortable. I came for the adventure, the art, the promise of a new start, and to breath the smoggy air of Liberty.
I got what I came for, and I'm still getting it in this melodramatic place. I can walk streets once familiar to a lot of very great people, whose ghosts I can summon whenever I visit familiar places. I've met some great and amazing people that I don't think I'd have met anywhere else. I've had some great adventures. I'm doing here everything I set out in life to do, everything that for years I was told that I couldn't and shouldn't do.
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Also Andrew, no, I don't think the Republican Party will eventually turn into something like the British Conservative Party and take a secular libertarian direction. I think it's going to double down on the bat-shit crazy, win or lose in November.
Sully can be such a drama queen sometimes. }-/
ReplyDeleteI've lived a number of places in my adult life, and found enjoyable aspects of all of them. NYC (Manhattan) 1990-1994, included.
I spent two months out of every year for a couple of decades (sometimes more time and sometimes less time) in New York. I was a retail buyer and later wholesale biz...when I was really young I would stay with friends in the village in a fifth floor walk up and we'd use my free pairs of theatre tickets and my perdium on FUN, FUN, FUN! I love New York...yes, adventure...my mind whirls (and I´m still alive) Len
ReplyDeleteI wanted to mention that as I read your blog, your adventures, your New York historical reviews, I can feel like I am in New York and I can feel your enthusiasm for the city...thank you.
ReplyDeleteI don't live in NYC, but I love to visit. It's a great city, and surely if I had to choose between DC and NYC as my place to live, the choice would be easy.
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