{"id":9538,"date":"2015-06-04T22:40:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T22:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=9538"},"modified":"2015-06-04T23:07:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T23:07:26","slug":"something-compelling-about-the-prospect-of-the-worlds-weirdos-and-artists-and-everyone-else-looking-elsewhere-for-their-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/04\/something-compelling-about-the-prospect-of-the-worlds-weirdos-and-artists-and-everyone-else-looking-elsewhere-for-their-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"something compelling about the prospect of the world&#8217;s weirdos and artists and everyone else looking elsewhere for their utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cordjefferson.tumblr.com\/post\/120476074623\/im-a-single-guy-who-makes-good-money-and-moved\" target=\"_blank\">cordjefferson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m a single guy who makes good money and moved here from out of state to take a cheap apartment in a traditionally Polish neighborhood, so I feel pretty bad even having this conversation, because I\u2019m a big part of the problem. I\u2019m not anywhere near a working-class family being forced to commute to minimum-wage jobs in Manhattan from an apartment farther and farther away because they keep getting priced out. (Note to someone: The next book of essays about people leaving New York should be written by poor people forced to leave instead of those of us who did it for quarter-life-crisis or career or significant-other reasons). That being said, where people from our backgrounds are concerned, I don\u2019t think New York\u2019s transformation is such a bad thing. I actually find something compelling about the prospect of the world\u2019s weirdos and artists and everyone else looking elsewhere for their utopia. I hope I do leave here someday. And if I have grandkids, I hope they say to me, \u201cWe can\u2019t believe you ever thought New York City was cool,\u201d while pushing my wheelchair through their anarchist arts commune in Orlando.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/durgapolashi.tumblr.com\/post\/120687930320\" target=\"_blank\">durgapolashi<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>think about this a lot, since i live in a manhattan-ish utopia-ish kinda place, and i can&#8217;t always put my finger on why <em>this<\/em> place is so special (besides the obvious reasons of small town living\/big city culture\/incredible stars, incredible sunsets). but really, why couldn&#8217;t a random city somewhere else be heavenly? if you had the space and liked the scenery and could find the people&#8230;it probably could be. it&#8217;s almost more exciting to carve your niche, than to live in a niche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cordjefferson: I\u2019m a single guy who makes good money and moved here from out of state to take a cheap apartment in a traditionally Polish neighborhood, so I feel pretty bad even having this conversation, because I\u2019m a big part of the problem. I\u2019m not anywhere near a working-class family being forced to commute to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}