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This John Steinbeck quote made me smile on the way to work today:

“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it:  Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”

It rings true, although it was another John -- Updike -- who really spoke to me:

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”

Do I think everyone should want to live in New York? Of course not. (I live here so you don't have to!) But I just remember feeling like life was passing me by when I lived elsewhere, so am extremely grateful to call it my home.