Sometimes I wonder if New York is seen as something extraordinarily special by those who live there because they don’t know anything else. They got an itch, New York City scratched it. Austin scratched mine. Maybe another city would have done the same.
Just sayin’.
nope. at least not for me. i can say this with some degree of certainty. i’ve been to a fair number of cities, and they are nice in their respective ways, and i enjoy different things about them.
but new york has sung to me, called to me, for as long as i can remember.
the closest i’ve ever heard someone come to describing the feeling is joan didion.
