state by state speak your mind about...new york

[Honeycombe8]

20. If you can make it there, you make it anywhere?

I've been there for work a few times. Times Square area. Went to the Metropolitan Art Museum.

What an exciting city! The lights, the movement, the smells (sometimes good, sometimes not). A capitalist mecca. An arts capital.

But I didn't go to the other areas to see what it's like, what it'd be like to live there. It still seems to me more like a place I see in movies, rather than a real place. I was flabbergasted to see Grand Central Station. As in, "You mean there really IS a Grand Central Station?" And to see the sign for "Poughkipsee" there....I never thought of it as a real place. I've just seen it in movies.

I was raised in a place far from there and as different as can be. The deep south. Hot, humid, rural, small towns, bicycles, black maids, women with peddle pushers and wavy hair and gentle southern accents. Almost no crime. Fields of rice or sugar cane or soybeans. Farms and ranches and horses and tractors. When the sun went down, the town shut down. A lot of poor people, for lack of capitalistic opportunities (if you have a store, you don't make much $ if you don't have many people to sell to).

Both areas are great in their own ways. I like both.