LA (or NY) here i come!
[yes thats right you get a double feature today]
and no, im not moving...its dallas for now
im writing about the obsession generations x, y, whateveryoucalltheneweronesthatidontknow have with moving to LA or NYC. certainly you know this story, right? "i want to find myself" or "i want to pursue acting" or "i think it will be fun"
but you also have to know that unless you have a lot of money or you are already connected there, it isnt going to be that great or glamorous. so is it to prove a point? to say that you did it? some sort of rite of passage? did i miss an important chain email on AOL like 10 years ago that implanted this idea?
how many people end up either staying in those cities and slumming it, moving from waiting tables at one restaurant to hostessing at another to working oddjobs just to make ends meet? and how many more end up moving out of the city within a year or two at most? im much more cynical about it and want to put it right around 6 months, but i have to be a little lenient for those particularly stupid or stubborn types.
certainly the % of people who are successful and are happy as far as achieving a majority of what they set out to do has to be less than 1(%) right?
and no, im not counting you kids who are living on mommy and daddy's amex and/or that trust fund your aunt set up for you before she moved to the "hills" to get weekly botox somewhere on her body, and microdermabrasion on her twat.
id say even the ones who move to these cities who are happy end up relying on someone else way more than they expected or would care to admit
so go ahead and move...im sure you'll be really happy, and theres no chance of you returning home or moving to another city (and no, im not talking about all the idiots who succumb to what i like to call the "oklahoma syndrome" of returning to oklahoma no matter where you move...thats an entire column on its own)
--bd
and no, im not moving...its dallas for now
im writing about the obsession generations x, y, whateveryoucalltheneweronesthatidontknow have with moving to LA or NYC. certainly you know this story, right? "i want to find myself" or "i want to pursue acting" or "i think it will be fun"
but you also have to know that unless you have a lot of money or you are already connected there, it isnt going to be that great or glamorous. so is it to prove a point? to say that you did it? some sort of rite of passage? did i miss an important chain email on AOL like 10 years ago that implanted this idea?
how many people end up either staying in those cities and slumming it, moving from waiting tables at one restaurant to hostessing at another to working oddjobs just to make ends meet? and how many more end up moving out of the city within a year or two at most? im much more cynical about it and want to put it right around 6 months, but i have to be a little lenient for those particularly stupid or stubborn types.
certainly the % of people who are successful and are happy as far as achieving a majority of what they set out to do has to be less than 1(%) right?
and no, im not counting you kids who are living on mommy and daddy's amex and/or that trust fund your aunt set up for you before she moved to the "hills" to get weekly botox somewhere on her body, and microdermabrasion on her twat.
id say even the ones who move to these cities who are happy end up relying on someone else way more than they expected or would care to admit
so go ahead and move...im sure you'll be really happy, and theres no chance of you returning home or moving to another city (and no, im not talking about all the idiots who succumb to what i like to call the "oklahoma syndrome" of returning to oklahoma no matter where you move...thats an entire column on its own)
--bd
posted by bruce dickinson at 1/08/2006 11:44:00 AM
3 Comments:
What about people who move to South Dakota?
sorry guys, I guess I might not be able to post for a while I am moving to NYC to find myself. Take care ;)
~Your favorite Canadian Girl
moving to south dakota is for little fairies and dumbass bitches! zing!
enjoy NY marnie, we'll be talking to you in 3-6 months when you return from your huge, embarrassing failure
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