Titivil, "New York makes it easy to forget that there are millions of people with hundreds of interests—NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land—for whom a tiny constellation of concrete boroughs that are frozen for half the year is not adequate. New York makes it easy to forget that many Americans would probably find paying $950 for a 10-by-10 room overlooking garbage cans either unaffordable or unappealing, or both. New York makes it easy to forget that the vast majority of people in the world don't read Gawker, The Awl, the Observer, the New Yorker or even the New York Times, and that that doesn't necessarily make those people uninformed."

"New York makes it easy to forget that there are millions of people with hundreds of interests—NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land—for whom a tiny constellation of concrete boroughs that are frozen for half the year is not adequate. New York makes it easy to forget that many Americans would probably find paying $950 for a 10-by-10 room overlooking garbage cans either unaffordable or unappealing, or both. New York makes it easy to forget that the vast majority of people in the world don't read Gawker, The Awl, the Observer, the New Yorker or even the New York Times, and that that doesn't necessarily make those people uninformed." »

It’s not New York that does that.

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I think that it’s neither the INTERNET nor New York in general which makes people in New York forget about life’s...
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tl;dr New Yorkers have their heads up their asses.
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EDIT: The INTERNET makes it easy to forget that the vast majority of people in NEW YORK don’t read Gawker, The Awl, the...
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But I do love a good reminder that it’s not all about bloody New York. NY, I love you but you’re bringing me down.
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It’s not New York that does that....I used to think Cord Jefferson was just a terrible...
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Ha. Also, I commend Gawker’s new commitment to the personal essay. Though I have to say at this point, essays like this...
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BRENT SPEAKS THE TRUTH.
titivil reblogged this from janehu and added:

It’s not New York that does that.
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I’ve been seriously thinking about moving upstate to a small town and disappearing lately.
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