Now that we have been here in St. Louis for six months and are finally planning on going back home to New York for a vacation -- back to Manhattan, thank goodness -- I think I can begin to reflect on what it has meant to move from a life in Manhattan to now a life in the Midwest.
Not just "the Midwest" -- which, to folks in THE CITY (please understand that means Manhattan) is really Chicago -- no, not just the Midwest, but St. Louis. Saint Louis. And there aren't many folks where I come from. Manhattan. Isn't the sound of that word just delightful? Let me just say it one more time, please -- Manhattan. I am from Manhattan. But there are lots and lots of folks here. Oh yes. Here in the small town that the locals even refer to as a city. Darling. And as I have said to many of my friends back east -- the only people who would call St Louis a city are people who have never been in a city. I think this is a town of 500,000. And as I like to say -- I think my building in the City had 500,000 people in it ...
Okay. Let me back up and introduce myself and explain that I mean this to be a comparison since I find life so very different here than in Manhattan. And perhaps this will be a bit of a steam release valve. Perhaps. However let me also say there are many wonderful things here. Noteworthy wonderful things here. Life is just drastically different here. And for someone from New York, New York it is quite a change. Oh I miss THE CITY.
