I have an online subscription to the NYT, and I've lived in LA for about 20 years. I totally agree with you. They tend to send reporters in to live here for a

I have an online subscription to the NYT, and I've lived in LA for about 20 years. I totally agree with you. They tend to send reporters in to live here for a couple of years, so they regard a Manhattan life style as the baseline and any deviation from that is, at best, quirky, and going down from there towards crazy at a fast clip. I was hoping there would be reader comments for this article, because the only thing better is to read Alfonse from Staten Island writing in that he visited his cousin in 2002 and the traffic was horrible, and Sydney from the UWS testifying that he lived there for two years in the 1990s and it really is as bad as all that, probably worse, and how do they live that way.