[OddLane]

People have an irrational attachment to this city. I was listening to a segment on WNYC last year that focused on residents of Park Slope being priced out of their apartments. They interviewed a middle-aged woman who couldn't afford her new rent so was relocating to L.A. to live with her sister.

I can understand why a grown woman wouldn't want to share a small apartment with her sister, but the way she described leaving New York would make you think she was being deported to Haiti to be macheted by the ton ton macoute.

[dp0622]

lol!!

i’ll admit when i got sick (head injury) and had to leave my job at Rockefeller Plaza it hurt!!

but I ALWAYS lived on staten island which is not rural by any means, with half a million people, but it’s manhattan and brooklyn, and i LOVED coming home to my quiet apartment,

i’m 47 now and work on staten island as a dispatch manager overnight (far cry from graphics but good pay, esp. for staten island)

i dont miss the cummute :)

and now that i’m older, there would have been no more chasing women anyway. the mrs. might not like that :)

[pierrem15]

Usually it’s not leaving New York— it’s leaving Manhattan, the navel of the universe for these people.