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Originally posted by Fugee
Why pick on NYC? Not only is it the poster child of big cities, but check the TV schedule: three varieties of Law & Order and CSI:NY and that's just network. LA is the biggest city on the other coast and has had its share of crime news.
My translation is that this shattered her sense of complete security of believing that bad things should happen only in big big cities where the danger of the unknown is all around you, not in small towns where you are surrounded by people you [think] you know.
Maybe Atticus is right and she thinks people in NYC and LA are worse than in Kansas. But maybe he isn't.
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I would be more inclined to support your view that her anxieties were purely quantitative, but remember also that we live in a world where William Donahue asserts that Hollywood is a town where we eschew Christian values, and reject families and nativity scenes for anal sex.*
I also remember prior to moving out to LA hearing my Red State mother-in-law exclaim "Los Angeles! Why ... it's such a
godless place!"
(Once we reassured her that any place that films
Touched by an Angel can't be all bad, we were able to move forward to more pleasant topics. I've also noticed that her anxieties have not restrained her tourist tendencies.)
Gattigap
*Well, OK, we do. But that's not the point.
