Comments on: Box of Fear

By: New Yorkers Shouldn’t Look for Sweet Home in Chicago | CHICAGO CARLESS

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:07:32 +0000

[...] readers for reasons why some people shouldn’t move to Chicago. That got me thinking about the time I encountered a pair of typical New Yorkers on my Marina City roofdeck. One of them was like me, a New Yorker who loves the rest of the world. The other was the kind of [...]

By: The Great Migration

The Great Migration — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:45:10 +0000

[...] saving grace right before I made my last exit from Brooklyn was having at least ditched my land line to go exclusively, telephonically mobile. That [...]

By: At Home in Bedford Falls

At Home in Bedford Falls — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:00:53 +0000

[...] thought I was following my dreams when I traded in New York City for Chicago six years ago to leave behind a set of problems I thought included a nowhere planning job, [...]

By: liz

liz — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:14:31 +0000

i’m totally google reader-ing you. i can’t wait to read your thoughts re: NY. seriously, this has been a huge thing on my mind for days now and it could not come at a better time to have someone else’s perspective… most of my friends who have never lived there don’t get it, and most of my friends who have lived there still live there.

By: Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:59:03 +0000

Thanks liz! Where would you like your steaks sent?

For me, the people make–or break–a place. That’s why my heart belongs to warm-hearted Lisbon, Portugal instead of aggressively bitchy Paris, France.

That can also explain my affinity for Chicago and Cincinnati over Gotham. And when I spent summer 2007 going back and forth to my hometown considering a job offer there (check my backstory and NYC and me categories), I had the EXACT SAME FEELING of woe for old friends and the boxes they inhabited as you did.

I hope you stick around and subscribe. Going to check out your site, too.

By: liz

liz — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:53:43 +0000

hi again. i just posted a comment on your cincinnati post. before i moved here i spent 3 years in new york. you have once again totally hit the nail on the head. i just spent new year’s there and couldn’t get over the depressed way i felt about my friends’ lives who i visited there. now i get why… they have, in the past 2.5 years, moved completely into the box of fear. did i mention that i love your blog. i’ll stop gushing/stalking now.

By: At Home in the Flyover Zone

At Home in the Flyover Zone — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:46:44 +0000

[...] years ago, I wrote about the psychological box that, like any good New Yorker, I lived in for 33 years. It’s hard not to feel aggressively [...]