tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post678554131640892476..comments2023-09-26T03:53:17.142-04:00Comments on Pentimento: Running Up the White FlagPentimentohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-90301825385430557452012-06-26T12:04:59.514-04:002012-06-26T12:04:59.514-04:00As you know, the school could be phenomenal. It al...As you know, the school could be phenomenal. It all depends on where you live. Some of those UES PTAs raise $100,000s a year for extras, too.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-64303779504063555932012-06-26T11:29:57.009-04:002012-06-26T11:29:57.009-04:00Yes you're right. My sister and husband live ...Yes you're right. My sister and husband live on the UES and have two kids. It's up in the air if they will stay or not, depending upon the school situation. Right now, her oldest is 2.JMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02542004362101344466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-10433284232144247622012-06-25T21:50:25.259-04:002012-06-25T21:50:25.259-04:00I know what you're talking about, JMB. It'...I know what you're talking about, JMB. It's so different now, though. Now people are staying in the city when they have kids instead of moving to the suburbs. Manhattan is mostly white and upper-middle-class now.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-8626408064548634282012-06-25T20:08:19.898-04:002012-06-25T20:08:19.898-04:00My dad was a native upper westsider. He would alw...My dad was a native upper westsider. He would always wonder why anyone would have wanted to live in the city after he fled in the mid 60s with my mom and my brother in tow. I think it just got really bad really fast and most of the middle class just bailed. By the time I was in college in the mid 80s it was pretty much accepted that NY was a lost cause. Then Guiliani came around and things seemed to get better. I don't know. Things change so quickly - NJ used to be a nice, inexpensive alternative to Westchester or Connecticut, now it's just as expensive. Who knows where my kids will end up.JMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02542004362101344466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-87212169547537042502012-06-24T22:20:55.644-04:002012-06-24T22:20:55.644-04:00Dear P:
We are all from somewhere, though for some...Dear P:<br />We are all from somewhere, though for some people, such as John McCain and Barack Obama, it is a bit harder to identity a single specific place. Love endures, and as you find and share love you make a place more like heaven and thus your home. Veritas et caritas, TQAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-57185801702133518462012-06-22T07:19:37.872-04:002012-06-22T07:19:37.872-04:00Interesting equation, E-NY, even if it leaves out ...Interesting equation, E-NY, even if it leaves out the subway stairs in 100-degree heat.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-33316544912557272012012-06-21T22:41:05.223-04:002012-06-21T22:41:05.223-04:00I guess it can be, if [insert many qualifiers that...I guess it can be, if [insert many qualifiers that are not true for my family]. It's hard to imagine how much money or how much isolation it would take for my kids to be as innocent as they have managed to remain here. Even more than it would take just to provide the basics there, and that's saying a whole lot. (Money for "innocence" might not make sense, but it theoretically allows the ability to control their environment to a greater degree.)Theresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15950499353195671264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-46863645954311701422012-06-21T20:28:01.730-04:002012-06-21T20:28:01.730-04:00Yeah, I know. I used to feel the same way. And my ...Yeah, I know. I used to feel the same way. And my mother used to assert that New York was a wonderful place to raise kids.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-84016318613390317882012-06-21T18:27:53.331-04:002012-06-21T18:27:53.331-04:00Wow. Never thought you'd reach that point, as ...Wow. Never thought you'd reach that point, as I so clearly have. It used to be painful to put that "ex-" before New Yorker, or Brooklynite. I used to think it was sad that my kids weren't native New Yorkers; now I have no particular desire to see them ever live in that state, unless it undergoes various currently highly unexpected changes. (In fact, in my teens I could hardly believe that my older cousin had deprived her firstborn of native New Yorker status all so she and her husband could live in New Jersey for a relatively short time before purchasing their first house, in Staten Island -- why on earth didn't they find an apt. in NYC instead?! Heh.)Theresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15950499353195671264noreply@blogger.com