Subject: [Harp-L] Hippest Musician's Towns

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peacoat guy writes (majorly snipped):
 
 "L.A. and NYC are unlivable"
 
....I beg your pardon?  I've lived in and around New York and its  environs 
since 1961.  It's quite livable, I assure you.  Of course if  you were trying 
to live in Mid-town Manhattan I could see why that could be  cost-prohibitive.  
Most of us with less than Rockefeller/Trump budgets  chose to live elsewhere 
within NYC (and The City is made up of Queens,  Brooklyn, The Bronx, Staten 
Island as well as Manhattan).  Did you try all  of them?  Staten Island's the 
only place within New York where I have not  lived.  Then there is Long Island 
where I currently reside and  the many other outer suburbs.
 
Quite to the contrary, most tourists and emigres to New  York discover it's 
vastly different from the silliness hyped in Movies  and TV, and find it a 
stimulating, warm and embracing City, where I can  guarantee lots of musicians 
make their living.
 
If you found it to be an "unlivable" place through a bad personal  experience 
of your own, then please say so and not just issue what seems to be a  
blanket indictment of my City.
 
And for the record?  There's no City "hipper" than New York.
 
Elizabeth