There was always an urge to move to New York (and L.A. you'll have noted if you read the site often). But in the past year or so the urge has wained. New York still has lots of things to draw us in - it's location as the spot to be for 2 of our passions - writing and music, the constant recognition as the coolest place on Earth, one-of-a-kind events like NYE in Times Square, the Belmont Stakes or Fashion Week and daily outdoor free country music compliments of the Today Show. But as time goes on, you visit, you study, you watch. You learn more about NYC and your home base. New York's much more crowded, has the exact same weather, often is trying too hard to be cool and by now seems almost commercially saturated and culturally contrived. We don't feel that way about Chicago. Every city has it's downfalls, but we've come to love Chicago's blemishes like our own.
When Sex and the City came out in the late Nineties, we started watching regularly during the first season. We may have been one of the few guys in their young Twenties watching (especially in small town Indiana). It was always on rerun about the time we'd get home from going out and it was our show to make a drunky snack with and watch before passing out.
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