Outside New York, It’s Another Country
8th November 2010
‘I am so glad I live in New York City and not the United States,” the author RL Stine wrote last week on Twitter. That New Yorkers view the rest of America with contempt is no secret, but the elections last week were a vivid reminder of their alienation from the rest of the country. “It feels like 2004 all over again,” one friend told me.
I wish we could sell them to the French.
November 9th, 2010 at 11:42
I spent a few years in NY and was shocked to see how they view the rest of the world. People in NYC think that Buffalo got that name because past that there is nothing but open prairie and animals until you get to LA. Of course, Chicago is in the middle so planes can refuel. I had a neighbor that was losing his job at GM and I pointed out it was too bad that he couldn’t transfer to the (then thriving) Saturn plant in TN. He said, “Oh, they offered me a job there, but I couldn’t take it because I want my kids to be able to read and write.” Seriously.