By: rook
It's nice to see the Old Home Place on the Awl. It isn't so much urban escapism, at least it ought not be, so much as it's leaving over-determined NYC. There are other cities. Hudson, NY comes to mind...
View ArticleBy: Abe Sauer
"Of course something is lost in this move." That would be, primarily, non-white people.
View ArticleBy: RocketSurgeon
My escape planning has already begun. Glad it's working out for you. Also, I want to drag a canoe down to the water and paddle all over that lake. Beautiful.
View ArticleBy: deepomega
Of course, that loss is more than made up for by doubling (!) the median family income.
View ArticleBy: flossy
I'm more jealous of this: "We went from a brownstone block festooned with Guggenheim and MacArthur winners, smart-talking African- and Caribbean-American retirees, giddy sidewalk chats with pre-Pomona...
View ArticleBy: Screen Name
It was my decision to leave New York City. I was tired of the lifestyle and all the pressure, the pace. I wanted a farm. After all, I'd grown up on a farm. And so I felt that going back to the farm...
View ArticleBy: deepomega
Farrrrrrrrrrrrrm livin' is the life for me. I watched the shit out of this show on Nick at Night growing up. Does that mean something?
View ArticleBy: formerly it takes a lot etc.
I don't know, calling Cold Springs "blue-highway America" is sort of like calling the Hamptons "blue-highway America." Literally true, the map says. But…
View ArticleBy: ntvtxn
cold spring is the brooklyn of the hudson valley. you didn't go very far, in the end.
View ArticleBy: NinetyNine
This is one of the more impressively subtle parodies I've read of the Times I've read recently.
View ArticleBy: Dara
congrats on the BIG move, but don't try to paint Cold Spring as some kind of bucolic hamlet. two words: nigga pleeze
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