Dr. Sidd agrees…

[long rant from a New Yorker who, unlike me, can actually rant from the perspective of the city itself, go read, I just love:]

and also i am sick of, essentially, being told people who are not at the top or aspiring to be at the top of the food chain shouldn’t want to live here, because i don’t aspire to the top of the food chain, and because actually part of what i like about NYC and cities in general is the way you can feel so anonymous, and also because who the fuck do you think is keeping running for you all those museums, restaurants, bars, and, yes, train stations that stay open 24/7? you can’t ACTUALLY have a city made entirely of, what, lawyers and ibankers, half of whom are out of a job right now anyway? NYC, like everywhere else, needs its janitors, librarians, teachers (REPRESENT), waiters(/actors), social workers (MORE OF THESE PLZ), small business owners, laundromats, etc., and if you are actually willfully blind enough to pretend that all these people are not just as fucking essential to the character and lifeblood of NYC as anyone else, then you are an asshole, and also giving New Yorkers a bad name!

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