Agree with Mo. Criticisms of New York aren’t invalid—it’s too expensive, and that’s a problem—but culture continues to hum along. It’s a great place, still, to find vibrant scenes, and I feel much better about the state of literary affairs in 2020s New York than I did in 2010s New York. I don’t know, for example, if The Metropolitan Review could have roared to life in such a short amount of time a decade ago.

If you’re gonna be NY hater, do it like Daniel Falatko. There’s this brand of whiney interloper that “hates” on NY for, quite frankly, very dopey reasons, then ducks back to where they came. No skin in the game. Wayback has done the years.