This is all funny to me now – not that I ever took Will’s monologue here very seriously. But I was thinking a lot about how much credibility living in NY actually gives a person, and increasingly it seemed like none. It started to feel like a very overpriced statement, to move to the city and accumulate years one has lived there. A statement that, for most, will evolve into an explanation of why they decided to leave. And I’m not above any of that. It’s just a question that increasingly begs an answer as the difficulty of staying increases, which it always does. |
It's the same with Los Angeles. I tell people I moved away to be close to family and to afford a house, but I also left to leave room and resources for native angelenos. As much as I loved it, I kinda felt like I was withholding something from people who'd been in the area for generations. Not that those had much more legitimate a claim, having displaced all the NATIVE native angelenos centuries ago.