I guess I really am just an old curmudgeon. I didn't care much for the "new" New York, and now back home I am discovering I'm not too stoked on the "new" San Francisco either
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I share a lot of the same sentiment with you, though in concern to comparing SF (and the Bay Area) with Boston. I could go on, but I think that ought to suffice for now.
Main difference between San Francisco and New York -- main difference between just about every American city and New York -- is the nighttime streetlife of the latter, no? But the existence of nighttime streetlife seems to shape cities in other ways.
Reading between the lines, I've always imagined your experiences on The Good Wife set were not entirely positive, but I gotta tell you that is one great, entirely underestimated show and drawing from my own experiences with Silicon Valley, bitcoin etc, the writers got the tech scene exactly right.
I think growing old doesn't necessarily have to be the repetition of experiences, the more-of-the-same do-loop. It has been for me. But I think I closed a lot of doors deliberately that I ought not to have closed. I think you're smarter than I am and will keep them open.
It's strange that my first thought when reading your comment about nightlife is that San Francisco and New York nightlife have both degenerated into the same thing. I know I'm being reductive and that NYC is still a far more complex ecosystem than SF, but you sure do see a lot less music venues and a lot more drunk 21 year old girls dressed like 40 year old women trying to dress like 21 year old girls tottering around on heels they can't walk in, around both cities lately.
And I've read enough of your writing to know I am in no way smarter than you, but I DO find your retail-business-owner experience very instructive and I'm grateful to you for that.
Oh, I didn't mean nightlife as in entertainment venues. I meant that there are always people around even at night in many parts of NYC. Not so in other American cities.
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Reading between the lines, I've always imagined your experiences on The Good Wife set were not entirely positive, but I gotta tell you that is one great, entirely underestimated show and drawing from my own experiences with Silicon Valley, bitcoin etc, the writers got the tech scene exactly right.
I think growing old doesn't necessarily have to be the repetition of experiences, the more-of-the-same do-loop. It has been for me. But I think I closed a lot of doors deliberately that I ought not to have closed. I think you're smarter than I am and will keep them open.
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And I've read enough of your writing to know I am in no way smarter than you, but I DO find your retail-business-owner experience very instructive and I'm grateful to you for that.
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