Saturday, April 24, 2010
Anywhere? Yeah Right.
...if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere...???
Actually, I think that popular shibboleth is factually incorrect.
It's easier to *make it* in the New York Metro area because there's so much more opportunity. Sure in some industries the competition is cutthroat; and sure, those mediocre restaurants in your hometown would be bankrupted out of Manhattan in a New York minute...
But still, I know plenty of Morons in New York who have done really well - economically anyway.
There's just so much darn money and capital floating around. The only secret to success in NY is to get your hands into a pool of it.
So a lot of the people who've allegedly made it here....I submit they'd be hard-pressed to do as well in not just in flyover country, but even in smaller cites.
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Gotta say, except for the pizza and bagels, f- that to "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere." Besides all the free-floating capital and numbskull investors, there's always a captive audience of 15 MILLION people in the tri-state area to sell your produce to. Even R.H. Macy failed in Haverhill, MA and had to try his department store fortunes in New York.
-Rich
P.S.: wouldn't Manhattan's (and Brooklyn's, I s'pose now) hipsters have hated Frank Sinatra, for simply hailing from Hoboken?
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