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The other thing I really miss is the curating of connections that everyone in my neighborhood seemed to do, whether it was a nightclub doorman, a guy who could get your free cable, someone who could fix a parking ticket, somebody that knew a cop and could ask him to not show up in court, I used to buy all my cigarettes from a union electrician who lived three doors down from me, he’d sell for 10 bucks a carton when they normally ran for 30, I don’t know where he got them but none of the packs had a tax stamp on them. 
What seems to be missing most here is the hustle and mild corner cutting that everyone seemed to do back home, [b]it made life fun and made you feel like less of a sheep[/b]; maybe it’s because of the proximity to government here and since they have a lock on corruption nobody else even thinks of competing.

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This! This is part of the vibe that makes a place. I now live in MOCO and while I love the diversity, sometimes it feels like I could be in any generic bland suburb across the US. NY has a vibe that’s hard to explain.[/quote]

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