I grew up in upstate New York, with a rather cheesy poster of the downtown New York skyline on my wall. I moved here after I graduated from college, in 1998. Not for fancy restaurants or celebrity sightings, but to work and live and raise a family in a stimulating, endlessly fascinating, entirely unique place. New York. Despite rising rents, despite being the victim of a life-threatening assault in 2004 (yes, serious crime does still happen here, and it's not glamorous or exciting to those of us it happens to), I am still here, and intend to stay. People born here may never think I am a real New Yorker, but I beg to differ. Isn't there room for us all?
I grew up in upstate New York, with a rather cheesy poster of the downtown New York skyline on my wall. I moved here after I graduated from college, in 1998. Not for fancy restaurants or celebrity sightings, but to work and live and raise a family in a stimulating, endlessly fascinating, entirely unique place. New York. Despite rising rents, despite being the victim of a life-threatening assault in 2004 (yes, serious crime does still happen here, and it's not glamorous or exciting to those of us it happens to), I am still here, and intend to stay. People born here may never think I am a real New Yorker, but I beg to differ. Isn't there room for us all?