Being a Northwesterner?, or just a non-New Yorker, and having been to NY city 4 times or so, the "City of Angels" story is one of my favorites from David Sedaris' "Me Talk Pretty One Day". A short excerpt about a friend of a friend visiting from South Carolina:
"That was the root of the problem right there. Visiting Americans will find more warmth in Tehran than they will in New York, a city founded on the principle of Us versus Them. I don't speak Latin but have always assumed that the city motto translates to either Go Home or We Don't like You, Either. Like me, most of the people I knew had moved to New York with the express purpose of escaping Americans such as Bonnie. Fear had worked in our favor until a new mayor began promoting the city as a family theme park. His campaign had worked, and now the Bonnies were arriving in droves, demanding the same hospitality they'd received last month in Orlando."
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