The Hopi Indians are a lot more interesting to me than the admen and stockbrokers who commute from Westchester County every day. I like the New West too. Just a new wave of artists. The questions here are real, not academic. I pray, of course, that the Old and the New West aren't replaced by the Panty-West.
Writers tend to be a depressive lot.
They need a lot of sun. I do anyway. Accomplished writer, street poet and most recently the coach of the Albuquerque Slam Team. I don't know if you can separate where you live from who you are. I lived my first years in Atlanta, a humid, bright green childhood.