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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother is don’t this. 
We could afford it but I’d hate it.  It’s just such an extreme version of everything—getting kids on preschool wait lists before they are born, competition for getting into even public high schools.  The disdain for things hat aren’t chic or urban.   I don’t like riaising kids thinking that’s normal.  My brother is an aggressive competitive type and he thrives on the [b]NY superiority complex[/b].  If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, sure.  But do you have to be able to make it anywhere?  Isn’t it good enough to make it somewhere?  [/quote]

The NY superiority complex is so annoying.  So many New Yorkers are obsessed with NY and make it a huge part of their identity.  They think normal things or events like going to brunch, drinking at a bar, private schools, concerts are truly unique to New York.  Even when I visit I am shocked by how much people talk about NY.  I lived in NY for years and it’s not that big of a deal.  [/quote]

Ha!  I think this is true.  This is another end of the spectrum, but I’m from southern Ohio and was once told by an NYC native that heroin addiction was a huge problem in the city, and I had probably never seen anything like it.  [/quote]

New Yorkers think they have a claim to everything.  I once had a New Yorker ask me if I’d ever been to a Whole Foods.  First off, my hometown had a Whole Foods years before they had whole Foods in NYC.  I told this person that Whole Foods is from Texas and it’s like they didn’t really believe me.  Also it’s just a grocery store.  Only a New Yorker would go to the Whole Foods at Columbus circle and think they are special because of it.

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