Like it or not, I’m staying
Last night I went to my neighbors house for a barbecue and someone was visiting from Chicago and started talking about how much she loved El Lay – and so all of us at the table chimed in – I told my “I lived in San Francisco for 16 years and found it soul-less” tale and R told his “I got off the plane in El Lay and wanted to turn around and get back on it” tale – and everyone more or less said California sucks, New Orleans is where I’d rather be.
Then I said, when I hear someone who lives in New Orleans put it down and say they’d rather live somewhere else, I say go then, get out. And R said, “Hey I don’t like it here either, but I’m not leaving.”