For laughs: Walt Whitman on NYC....

From The Economist Magazine. (My husband reads me articles such as these!)

"Dr Johnson famously said that when man is tired of London, he is tired of life. Whether true or not for London, the same cannot be said of New York, because New York is larger than life. It is faster, busier, more enthralling and, for many, eventually too exhausting. Recall Walt Whitman as he sang the praises of New York, "My city!" as enthusiastically as anyone. Give me the streets of Manhattan, eh wrote, "O such for me! O an intense life, full to repletion and varied!" And then he moved to New Jersey.