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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What would you say to a Houstonian asking to recreate their lives when they move to NYC? [/quote]

That's easy.   Live in some sprawly part of Long Island. Enjoy July and August.  That way you get the suburban sprawl, and the heat and humidity.  If not the big hats and the accents.

Seriously, not everyone WANTS to go native.   Some people move because they have to and want and need stuff that is more who they were.

I moved to medium sized sunbelt metro in my 20s.  A yankee city kid.  After 6 miserable months in a 2 story garden apt complex walkable to nothing, with lots of shallow Florida singles, I moved to a 3 story garden apt complex with enclosed entries that felt just a tad more urban and less Florida, that was  at least walkable to a drug store where I could buy the Sunday NY Times (one of the few places in the metro area it could be found) that was closer to downtown, and that had a more yankee, more educated clientele.

It wasn't Beacon Hill, but I felt a bit less like a fish out of water.  I probably missed some cultural immersion experiences, but I preserved my sanity till I could move out of the metro area.

There is nothing wrong with that, IMO.  You may like experiencing the culture where ever you are, but not everyone can do that.  Its not like we are talking a 3 week vacation or even a year long internship - for some people, depending on their career, we are talking a long term change.  Its scary to think you have completely lost the way of life you like.  [/quote]

Houston is hot and humid and sprawling, but it's also the most diverse city in the United States.  Tom Sietsema named it one of the top 10 US cities for restaurants.  The population skews highly educated and politically quite liberal (Hillary won Harris County).  Don't know about the big hats.    [/quote]

Well maybe the apocryphal family looking for Houston needs a part of LI that has diversity and restaurants. Or maybe they need to tradeoff restaurants for sprawl, because those are the choices in NY (humidity is available in the summer throughout greater NY though, so that should be okay).  I am sorry, did you read me as attacking Houston?  I was not (though I imagine HRC won Harris County mostly with votes of POCs and that as in much of the south, the white vote was much more conservative, far more so than in NYC or DC). I was simply trying to respond to someone about how trying to find some place like where you are moving from is not necessarily a hopeless cause, and not everyone can or needs to focus on what is distinctive about the new place.[/quote]

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