I was lucky enough to live in New York for three years a while back. It remains my favorite place in the world, and I have no doubt it is the world's best and most exciting city. Its enforced compactness (Manhattan anyway) makes it work, to my mind, as cities should, with work never being that far away from home, the food mart just around the corner or across the street, your favorite Italian restaurant a couple of blocks away.
The writer also touched on something I found which seems to be an unusual view of NYC: that a lot of the time people are generous and even kind. I have fallen over there and five people came to check I was okay. I felt at home and safe there, and I completely understand where this writer is coming from.
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Date: 2010-05-14 06:57 pm (UTC)I was lucky enough to live in New York for three years a while back. It remains my favorite place in the world, and I have no doubt it is the world's best and most exciting city. Its enforced compactness (Manhattan anyway) makes it work, to my mind, as cities should, with work never being that far away from home, the food mart just around the corner or across the street, your favorite Italian restaurant a couple of blocks away.
The writer also touched on something I found which seems to be an unusual view of NYC: that a lot of the time people are generous and even kind. I have fallen over there and five people came to check I was okay. I felt at home and safe there, and I completely understand where this writer is coming from.
Thanks for sharing.