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Places I've lived: Sydney: You should spend more money on real estate. Melbourne: You should spend more money on clothes. London: You should have been here 1
by hugh 18y ago
Places I've lived:
Sydney: You should spend more money on real estate.
Melbourne: You should spend more money on clothes.
London: You should have been here 150 years ago.
Davis, CA: You should leave Davis, CA.
- shiro 18y agoTokyo, Japan: Doing nothing, even for a minute, is a sin.
- fogus 18y agoHaving spent some time in Tokyo, I must say that the most striking thing for me was that at any moment of the day, the streets are flooded with people going too and fro. It was amazing. -m
- motoko 18y agoPlaces I've lived: Mountain View, CA: We're not the Barrio (any more). Toledo, OH: We're close to Detroit. Bowling Green, OH: Attend a real university with your real high school friends! Columbus, OH: Love Ohio State football (and basketball, if the season's wrong).
- menloparkbum 18y agomy list: brooklyn: you should be hipper cambridge: you should be smarter berkeley: you should only eat organically grown vegetables tokyo: you should be japanese san francisco: you should become as crazy as most everyone else, but not quite as crazy as the homeless people
- bootload 18y ago"... Melbourne: You should spend more money on clothes ..." No it's more like... Melbourne: You live in the sports capital of a sports crazed country. You should go to the footy, the cricket, tennis and don't forget some new duds on cup day.
- astrec 18y agoYou forgot to mention the obligatory beers at each event.
- janm 18y agoSydney is real estate, through and through. London: "You should have been here 150 years ago" is essentially "you should be more aristocratic". I think that signal is strong in London. I have been at dinner with friends who started arguing about how far they had to commute on the tube (as a proxy for social class.) The English pretend to the world that it doesn't matter but it seems to matter deeply to them. This seems to be an English hidden rule; that is how the discussion started.
- tomh 18y agoMoscow: You should be rich, or Russian. Preferably both.
- thepeople 18y agoWrong. If we were to choose one message for Moscow it should be: "you must be powerfull." If you are merely rich, your money can be easily taken from you by more powerful person in Moscow. And if you didn't know, Russian is a second class citizen in Russia. All in all, one message per city is insufficient. It all depends on the people around you.
- jsteele 18y agoYou hit the nail on the head: This whole essay is based on a false premise (which nonetheless is strongly believed by PG). Cambridge only seems to be a "smart" town if your social group consists of people associated with MIT, and you're only likely to end up in that social group if you were part of the middle class when you moved there.
- helveticaman 18y agoWhy exactly is Moscow expensive? I've never figured this out. Is there a shortage of land, or is it really, really inaccessible from land, or what?
- netcan 18y agoTel Aviv: You should be moving faster. A lot faster. Dublin: Be wittier then smart. Melbourne: I agree. Its a confused message that definitely has to do with sports not clothes.