Tuesday, July 20, 2004
In "Under the Net" there's a great idea, that there are places to live that are in the swing of things and there are places that are not. Philadelphia is not very much in the swing. You don't move here in order to plug in and be part of what's going on in the larger world, the way you would move to New York. You move to NY as much for the feeling of being switched on as you do for any actual job or opportunity. What's prompting these thoughts is a woman from the office who's moving to Boston, which just seems so much more alive and cogent as a city than Philadelphia does, though the two are similar in some ways. Boston is her fantasy city. I'm not sure if Philly is anybody's fantasy city, besides M. Night Shyamalan.
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