People live in Brooklyn because it’s cheaper. It’s not a money thing or a class thing, but it’s sort of admitting defeat—an inability to be in New York. Living in Manhattan presents an interesting challenge: to always be confronted by people who have really won.

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Oh man, this girl, from this piece. (via rach)

Ha, I liked:

It takes a certain amount of energy to do all these fabulous Brooklyn things. … I’d rather just sort of go to the Gap and come home. I’m not really engaged by, like, playing Frisbee and riding bikes.”

But really, screw it all.  I love Carroll Gardens and Ft. Green AND Greenwich.  That woman is exactly the kind of New Yorker I hate, really… the kind that can’t even stick up for her own city and hate everyone else.  She has to go even lower and think that the block she lives on means she won.