Center of the world

[beetiger]

You can take the New Yorker out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the New Yorker, it seems.

When I was an undergraduate at a liberal arts institution in New Haven, sometimes my friends and I used to take the Metro-North train into The City. Other people, originally from other parts of the country, would be somewhere between confused and offended by our terminology. "We *are* in a city!", they'd complain.

We may have been self-centered and boorish. But, apparently, we weren't alone.

Comments

[lapis-lazuli.livejournal.com]

When I was growing up in northern VA, D.C. was "the City". When I moved to NJ, New York became "the City".

But, when I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, Miami was never "the City".