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David W. Fenton
Also, there's this old saw that "society has ceased to exist in
New York City". In my few trips there, I always got the
opposite impression: people there are more in tune with each
other than any place I've been. Understood that they may not be
*friendly*.... but they're all on the same square and they all
understand each other.
That's the essence of it -- New Yorkers invest only as much effort
in getting along as is required by living cheek-by-jowl with
7,999,999 other people.
This is a feature, not a bug.