One of my friends moved to LA couple of years back after living in New York for five years, then moved back after a year. Asked the difference, he replied, "When it's 28 degrees in New York, it's 78 in Los Angeles. When it's 102 degrees in New York, it's 78 in Los Angeles. There are about 8 million interesting people in New York, only 78 in Los Angeles."
Encircled by swift tides and sparkling waters, New York is undoubtedly America's greatest democratic island city. It rises with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action. There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels, he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.
