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On a lighter note: Tyler Cowen is wrong about London and New York. It's true that long ago I found London a more pleasant place. But these days the roles are reversed: New York is more livable, and less dominated by money-mad ostentation 1/ bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Part of the problem is that the old line about New York is all wrong: it's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit here, or at least not without local friends to steer me away from the tourist traps 2/
I mean, 5th Avenue near the Empire State Building is a heaving sea of humanity -- but so is Piccadilly Circus. Both are, as Yogi Berra would say, places nobody goes because they're too crowded 3/
The real city is the Paris-like sidewalk cafes of the Upper West Side, the glorious cultural mix of Jackson Heights, the indie music scene in Brooklyn, the peace of the Cloisters or the Botanical Garden, and hundreds of other places 4/
Finally, there are actually a lot of interesting places to visit in New Jersey. You got a problem with that? 5/
