[Alberta's Child]

I suspect the characteristics you've described there would apply to residents of most old, large cities. New York just happens to be the largest -- and one of the oldest -- of them all . . . which means you see these things more in New York than in any other place.

One of the biggest problems the city has is that it's always been a city of immigrants. Immigrants themselves are no big deal, but when you have that many of them in one jurisdiction -- and they bring their dysfunctional views of government with them from their home countries -- then you're really asking for trouble.

[ZULU]

Very true.