Hatches, no offense taken from your post. Perhaps it echoed a sentiment I already have within about leaving, which is why it stuck out. It is one of the biggest decisons one can make to decide to move on, and there is always ambivelance surrounding it, I guess. My subconscious tortures me with lucid dreams of walking down the beautiful tree lined streets of the village, and I wake up with a pit in my stomach. But alas...At any rate, this board provides a wonderful service to those of us who miss the city and her most valuable resource, the people.
Daddy, I agree with your post. It is amazing what one will put up with to live in Manhattan.
When I left, I thought that I would be so happy to have a decent standard of living that I wouldn't miss it at all, but now that I have an objective viewpoint, I see differently. There is an indescribable, almost spiritual quality about New York: a new age friend says that the bedrock of Manhattan has a large deposit of quartz which is why it has always been such an energy center. It certainly makes one think...