A bit dated, but here's an excerpt and link to a weekly feature from a week or so back:
"New York is certainly more protean than most European cities, but I wonder whether Mr Whitehead didn’t capture something larger here, something of the wistfulness inherent in urban life. To live in a city is to live in a teeming, hectic present amidst the burnished memories and unblemished hopes of millions of other citizens. Things were great before you got here, and they’ll be wonderful after you leave, but while you are here you are always just the same old you. It’s a horrible fate, I know, and no less horrible for being universal, but I will always be grateful to have suffered it in Brooklyn, if only for a while."
Link to coverage on Economist.com
1 month ago
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"Things were great before you got here, and they’ll be wonderful after you leave, but while you are here you are always just the same old you. It’s a horrible fate..."
that is the best quote i've heard in ages. although where i live, i will have to disagree. thing's weren't great in seattle UNTIL i arrived. :)
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