New York City !!!

New York City !!!
Given that a lot of the cache of New York is based on hype, and that many of life’s very real necessities require so much more struggle to achieve here than elsewhere, why do people come here, and why then do they stay?
I’d say that it is both the hype and the struggle that attracts people and keeps them here. The idea of New York, even inasmuch as it is merely an idea, is so powerful and seductive that people choose it over the bland realities of humbler towns. For many, the mere phenomenon of feeling they are at the center of the universe more than makes up for the deprivations and sacrifices the city demands. And as an idea, New York transcends America, managing in its mythology to retain the best of what America is—opportunities, the fast pace, the excitement—while eschewing the worst of it—the religious zealotry, the prudery, the conservatism.
New York was an idea we glommed onto while we sat in our parent’s spacious ranch in an uncomplicated suburban province plotting our escape. We gave over to the romance of every rags-to-riches story: what brave souls! And we allowed ourselves to be seduced by the impossible glamour; the melancholy yet funny Manhattan. These imaginings became a challenge we presented ourselves. And the dreamer in us — or the seeker, the go-getter, the self-starter — took up this call to arms. We promised ourselves: I will come, damn it, I will see, and I will conquer.