Amanda Rost

nyc

[Amanda Rost @amanda_rost]

@HeWhoIsSpicy How so

[Amanda Rost @amanda_rost]

((nyc 5 years))

I love my apartment and being at home and so do my friends. It’s just also so vibrant and lively everywhere else ! And so many genuine deep friendships… #10 reads like someone who is going to networking events haha. You get what you give and where and how you meet people ends up being self selecting.

I don’t find that people who live here (esp who have been here more than ~3 years) are trying to prove anything for the most part. It’s a really lovely place to live ***relatively*** normally too. I know ppl who moved to nyc from sf and were very intimidated & put off by the various echelons of wealth and feeling like they could never measure up so they left immediately. If you stay more than 1-2 years and you aren’t in the 0.001%, you likely are pretty well adjusted and happy with who you are, because you can’t really live here otherwise. Takes a thick skin ! Also self selecting in that way

And spiritually .. that’s just about your inner state anyway. Concrete & masses of people is technicallyyyyy nature haha

I’ve always leaned live to work at heart so I just am that way and gravitate towards people like that wherever I am

I also think it’s impossible to say “New York is __” or “people in New York __” as sweeping statements because it’s so huge and diverse and multifaceted.. there are hundreds of micro niche cultures you can dip in and out of at any time ((assuming you have the awareness to even see them and relate to them to begin with — big “if” haha))

Whereas I found the bay in the 10 years I lived there to be much less complex and more monoculture. Which I loved for what it was! But the mental model for how you understand a place like Sf just doesn’t translate to nyc. Takes time to hold the nuance to get that fully.

[Amanda Rost @amanda_rost]

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