Maggie's Farm

It is drawing all of the ambitious young people of America and the world

Like, who? I can't think of anything outside of finance, maybe some biology, where NY is producing anything of world class value. Perhaps I'm too caught up in the technical world, what am I missing?

I'll give you dance. Theatre and fashion are dead, although garment manufacture is still a big piece of the action. Performing arts is up there with the museums, not much new, but good old stuff from a better past.

Some of the high schools are good, the universities not so much, certainly not in the same class as they were. The top city for medical and higher education is Boston and I expect some of the Texas cities to catch up in the next couple of decades.

Entrepreneurs do better in Silicon Valley, Boston, TX, NC, SLC, and other up and coming centers. Price and environment are probably going to move more and more ambitious young folks out of Boston and Silicon Valley. Massachusetts already feels like a museum for old people.

Like California, NYC could be a nice place, but at the moment it is too expensive, and surrounded by the decayed remains of a manufacturing past. But there is always the port. NJ has the port.