Maybe it also has to do with crime. Maybe it s the widely-varying cultures everywhere on display. There are communities of nearly every ethnicity and culture in the city, and they are strong ones. Most here don t hate others beliefs, but neither do they often have much in common with them. Then there is tempo.
Life does move much more quickly here than further west.
Whatever it is, I don t think people here dislike people like me or the other people that they ignore. I just think they don t care, don t have time to care, and don t quite know why they should. I guess I don t really have a problem with that. Everybody gets more done that way, anyway, and we might as well have some places in this country devoted to that. A person can hardly walk a block without running into at least one great pizza place, most of which deliver as far as I can tell, and yet Domino s manages to exist.