Shout out from NYC

So I'm here in New York visiting my sister, and as always I'm struck by how completely different New York (well at least Manhattan) is from most everywhere else. As a "city" it puts even Chicago to shame, not to mention places like little old Whitney Point where I grew up. Living somewhere like NY is a completely different experience from living in a town of about 1,000 people, and its amazing to me that such a range of experiences can be found on the same planet, let alone in the same state (of course if one were to look internationally you could find far greater gaps in size/prosperity that would lead to even more different experiences). And even though we are all biologically the same human species, we are in many ways completely different beings because of our surroundings and experiences. Maybe this gives credence to the cliche that you can take the person out of the city/small town, but you can't take the city/small town out of the person.