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11. NYC has wonderful nightlife, restaurants, museums, theaters, etc., and lots of really

interesting, and fortunately usually very nice, people. And Central Park is lovely.

But if you're used to being able to see some distance in most directions, and you love trees and open spaces, it feels like being at the bottom of concrete and glass canyons. Which got unbearable for me after a while.

Years after I left NYC for the second time, I was talking to a business associate there who'd lived there less than two years (like me, she was from the Midwest), and she told me she was getting tired of all the concrete, tired of having to lean out a window in her apartment to see the nearest tree. I don't know how much longer she stayed.