I don’t care. Been to NYC, never going back. NYC’ers voted for this, now they can live with it. After Mamdani wrecks everything maybe they’ll see the error of their ways, even though they’ll already be screwed.
RE: Been to NYC, never going back...
Like the Sandy Dennis speech to husband Jack Lemmon in the original The Out of Towners. Away from NYC to a place where decent people could live in peace and raise children.
(As Jack Lemmon was finally offered his brig promotion but would have to live in NYC)
I was hoping you would say no. I was hoping you would say that you and your wife don’t really belong in New York. That you wanted to live the rest of your life in Ohio. That you never wanted to see a big city again as long as you live. That you didn’t want to live here ...or any other place where people have to live on top of each other, and they don’t have enough room to walk or to breathe or to smile at each other. That you don’t want to step on garbage in the streets, or be attacked by dogs or have to give away watches in the middle of your sleep to men in black capes. That you were through traveling on trains that had no place to sit & no food to eat. And you didn’t want to fly in airplanes that have no place to land, and no luggage for you when you land there. That you wish you never came here, and the only thing in the world you really wanted was to pick up your wife and carry her to the airport and fly home... and live happily ever after. That’s what I was hoping you would say, George.
George Kellerman (Jack Lemmon): That’s funny... that’s what I told him, word for word.