World-Class New York

As holiday destinations go, you can’t get more mainstream than New York. But it’s mainstream for a reason. It has an energy that comes close to our home city of Shanghai: the pace, the scale, the over-commercialism, the overstimulation, the glitz/grime, the impatience, and the surprise encounters with people you pass on the street. But more than that, New York has the kind of diversity that other places simply cannot match. The locals complain that it’s changing too fast, becoming too homogenised. They’re probably right. But it’s still got way more going for it than most other places that impudently call themselves world-class global cities.

New York is THE global city, so it’s only natural that so many of my global community are either based here, or have recently gravitated here from Asia. I only realised exactly how many this was when they all agreed to drop in to a small bar in Hell’s Kitchen. The evening was a timely reminder that those reports of New York’s demise are wildly overblown. And that those of New York’s high cost of living… are not. 💸😬


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