Thanks, a very interesting read.

> New York tells you, above all: you should make more money.

That's very true, but ironically not in the sense that the author meant it. New York is just annoyingly expensive city in the real estate sense. So living in New York directly tells you "you need more money to pay your rent / pay off your mortgage, etc".

Amazing article that relays the message even in 2008. PG seems to have the forethought to write in the universal sense toward <city> growth.