I [what's the symbol for feel quite ambivalent towards?] NY

I'm done with New York. I know, I know, all my New York friends are gasping and fainting as they read this. How could anyone ever be over the "greatest city in the world"? New Yorkers (both native and adoptive) have this intense self-righteousness about the city. I think that it is because if they stopped being so adamant about how GREAT New York is and how everywhere else is backward and slow paced and uncultured and dull, they might have time to pause and realize that New York just isn't that great.

Have I lost you yet, my NY friends? Well, I'll explain for the rest of you who keep reading. The thing about New York is that it is a wonderful, sparkly, beautiful, magical place. Sometimes. Very rarely. Mostly it is loud and busy and stressful and unaccommodating and brusque and intimidating. It is the most bipolar city in the world and I think that may be why so many maladjusted people live there and seem to love it. It's like dating a hot girl who is super crazy. Mostly she is annoying and frustrating and she makes you feel like shit, but on those rare occasions where she shuts up and is nice to you, you appreciate it even more. Plus she's really hot. So you find it hard to justify leaving this amazingly hot girl even if she makes you feel like trash. Well, that's how I see New York. It's hard to leave because it is beautiful and you can get falafel or liquor or drugs delivered to your door at 3 in the morning, but mostly it makes you feel like shit because you're not fast enough or hot enough or efficient enough or as well dressed as all the other young women making $30,000 a year (how do they do it?).

But guess what? If you live in places that don't make you feel like shit you don't need to have falafel, liquor, and drugs delivered to your door at 3 in the morning. Because you are happily asleep in your spacious room on your quiet street. Yes, the bars stay open hours later in New York, but partying all night is only really necessary if the daytime is unfulfilling.

So I'm over New York. It is too stressful and high pressure and expensive for me. That is not to say that I am totally committed to Washington DC. I'm not. But its nice and casual and non-threatening and I can really get into that right now.