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The Incongruous CityMrs L sees and hears it on the streets of ManhattanFriday, December 5 We have a friend who recently moved from Tennessee to New York, and we had him over for dinner a few nights ago. We were listening to him describe the pros and cons of moving to New York, and the enormous transition he is currently navigating. He mused about how long he might stay in the city. After listening quietly for a few minutes, my nine-year-old son finally interjected with some stridency, "But… are you going to get your green card??" previous | next | back to main page |
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I have lived in the South all my life and just can’t fathom moving “North”...if I did make a move it would be to the deeeep South with the sugar sand & turquoise water. I know every city holds a certain kind of energy for some folks but I’m pretty sure mine is below the Mason Dixon. Y’all come to see us now ya heah!
[Posted by Jan on 12/11 at 11:49 PM]
Hey Mrs. L,
Your son probably read/heard about that on his last library visit. . . Anyway, HAPPY HOLIDAY to you and yours and all who visit here!
[Posted by Joan on 12/22 at 02:10 PM]
its said if you make 5 years in NYC, you dont leave. I am here since 1982 and realize New Yorkers have a fund of knowledge with a huge sense of cultural differences. What is common place to a New Yorker is foreign to someone who grew up elsewhere. This NY sensibility. Its in the writing of Trillin, Wasserstein, Hamill, and Rosanne Cash
[Posted by ny social worker on 12/22 at 03:47 PM]
new yorkers do have a huge sense of cultural differences, obviously. Someone from Rio, Singapore, or Norfolk can pay attention too. A thing i have found here to be foreign is the idea of 6 billion OTHER people in the world. You can have Trillin, Wasserstein, Hamill. I’ll take Faulkner, O’Conner, Twain,...and we’ll take back Rosanne too.
[Posted by the fellow from tennessee on 12/24 at 07:36 PM]
To: the fellow from tennessee
You left out the greatest Southern author/humorist: Lewis Grizzard!
To: Mrs. L & All:
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR, PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TOWARD ALL AND YES!YES!YES WE DID!!!
[Posted by Jan (from Tennessee) on 12/25 at 12:44 AM]
Dearest You….
God bless you and your family in the new year to come! My eyes are sharply focused just above the horizon, waiting most impatiently for whatever you have to offer in 2009!!!
You are a treat, Mrs. L. !!!
[Posted by Tony in Texas on 12/28 at 02:31 AM]
I just wanted to say Happy New Year to you and your family. On the subject of New York I could never live there I am not cultured at all and I love the wide open country. Ohio is the farthest north I have ever lived. I am originally from North Carolina and lived all over the south. I guess I will always be a southerner at heart.
[Posted by John From Ohio on 01/03 at 10:35 AM]
There is so much information we take for granted that kids have to somehow assimilate. This reminds me of my son at around the same age asking me with intense desperation a question that must have been puzzling him for a while , “Mum, when IS happy hour, anyway??”
[Posted by Suzy in Sydney on 01/25 at 03:49 PM]
I laughed for an hour over the green card comment! My grandaughter used me as a sounding board now and then. When she had to start pre-school at 4 years, she asked of me, “Why do I have to go to school if I already know everything?” To which I replied, “So you can learn about what everybody else knows.” To which she replied, “Oh…Ok.”
[Posted by Will Wiegman on 10/09 at 07:43 AM]
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