[lbo-talk] Insularity ( Was pale male : question to new yorkers...)

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> This type of insularity I have only seen in NYer's.
> Maybe people from LA or 
> SF are occasionally like this too. I never met
> anyone like these people 
> when I lived in Chicago but that doesn't mean they
> don't exist. It's 
> probably everywhere and I've on just seen it in many
> NYer's but my gut 
> feeling is NY has a disproportionate amount.

New Yorkers are infamously insular and provincal and
pround of it, as the well-known Saul Steinberg NYer
cover, A View Of the World From Ninth Avenue. I have
many stories, being married to one (a New Yorker), but
here's just one. When we moved to Chicago, my MiL came
out to visit, and we drove her down to the Loop to go
to a show or something. My MiL, who had only lived
outside NY for two years in grad school (Rochester),
looked around at some of the greatest urban
architecture in the world and pronounced, "This isn't
like New York. It's boring." "Yeah," I snarled, "and
it's flat too!"

		
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