Jorge Just

All New Yorkers want to talk about is what subway train to get to take to get from point A to point B. And it goes on and on.

And you can't say anything.

You can't be like, you know, they discovered a 10th planet.

And they'll be like, well, you would take the DMZ, you know.

To get to the 10th planet.

It's inescapable.

And when that conversation finally peters out...

It somehow, and it doesn't fail, turns into a conversation about cell phone reception.

You can't get into the conversation.

You don't know where the dead spots are.

So you can't do any small talk.

So what happens is the small talk becomes, oh, you just moved to New York.

Where are you from?

Oh, you're from Chicago.

How do you like New York?

How do you like New York?

Everybody wants to know how you like New York because they want you to say, New York's the greatest place that I've ever been to.

And I've burned all of my connections to anywhere that I've ever been before because I love it so much here.

When in fact, people would say, so how do you like New York?

Well, you know, I like it.