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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lived in NYC just north of the East Village in my 20s. I had a few friends and many older colleagues who lived in the Upper East Side. I always wondered why anyone would live there, it seemed so boring without lively restaurants and bars. It lacked the diversity and variety of other dynamic neighborhoods.

Fast forward 20 years, I recently spent a weekend in NYC with my kids and we went to the Met which is in the upper east side. We strolled by several neighborhood streets which still lacked interesting restaurants and bars and variety (relative to other parts of NYC), but now I gazed at the neighborhood with adoration for its serenity in the midst of a massive metropolis. It was quiet, clean, and visually pleasing with tree lined streets and pretty brownstones. Now I wonder why someone would live in an NYC neighborhoods with loud bars, bus loads of tourists, trash on the streets, and cannabis stores on every block.

The moral of the story is that we often determine that something has an intrinsic attribution (boring, beautiful, etc) but really these values are relative to our preferences and characterizing it a certain way tells us something about us (not something inherent about the thing).

Values are relative to our preferences, not things that are externally real.

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Best DCUM real estate comment ever. The post that followed was the most typical.[/quote]

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