Let me tell you, though, when the sun sets in New York and the breeze off the Hudson drops the temperature 10 degrees but you can still be outside in a tank top and tiny shorts, there is nowhere I'd rather be.

@SuzanEraslan

I'll see your New York and raise you a Philadelphia. We've got better street food!

@ElectricMink Oh, honey. You can't see and raise with less than was already in.

@SuzanEraslan

You don't get to count the brake dust you get coated in any time you set foot on a NYC street as an asset, you know.... -_^

@ElectricMink You don't get to count a subway system that doesn't go anywhere as an asset, then.

@SuzanEraslan

But I do get to claim the title of "most public art of any American city", though, and we have street trolleys!

@ElectricMink Ok, but I said there's nowhere *I'd* rather be. I wasn't inciting a fight, and none of the things you have named are major selling points for me, specifically. For street food, Istanbul destroys anywhere in the US; how do you count public art, unless you mean state funded public art; and Venice has gondolas, which defeat all outdated kitschy modes of transport. New York is home because of its New Yorkness, and not because of any list of things.

@SuzanEraslan

I'm just teasing, dear Suzan, playing with the whole "Philly had an inferiority complex chip on its shoulder" thing. Fact is, I love both cities and definitely understand why you love it there. Never mind that it rhymes with "Stewed Ork".....

*duck*