Closing Bell: On Leaving Park Slope
“I am leaving Park Slope because I am increasingly impatient with people too socially deficient to act like good neighbors. People who won’t spare five seconds to help an old lady. People who can’t figure out their way around without checking their iPhones. People who don’t say hi to the neighbors with whom they share…
“I am leaving Park Slope because I am increasingly impatient with people too socially deficient to act like good neighbors. People who won’t spare five seconds to help an old lady. People who can’t figure out their way around without checking their iPhones. People who don’t say hi to the neighbors with whom they share a stoop. These things are getting noticeably worse.” This is the nut of a post by longtime Park Sloper Daryl Lang who’s leaving the borough and moving to Manhattan. The essay covers everything from the Park Slope Food Co-Op to pretentious parenting and “fidgety and skittish” fathers. His final diagnosis? “Park Slope’s reputation as a welcoming place went viral, and brought in new residents who made it a warped exaggeration of itself.” Agree?
On Leaving Brooklyn [History Eraser Button]
Hey Emily,
Will you change the title to be more accurate…
“On leaving Sunset Park”
Ahem…Jester…I’ll go ahead and take your word for that!
**I knew it!**
dont let the door hit ya where pazuzu split ya.
how did i miss this thread today
*rob*
This whole business
is just spanking the monkey
in front of a mirror.
Tell me about the guy moving
from Park Slope to Brownsville,
there’s an interesting story.
hypocrites
Smoking cock is way more fun.
Not liking where you live is one thing (yes, even not liking Park Slope) but to write an entire diatribe about it just makes you look like an attention seeking nitwit.
So move. People do it EVERY DAY! But this dude felt the need to write this, then send it around to the blogs to get a little attention for a decision that most people make on the crapper.
“Park Slope’s reputation as a welcoming place went viral, and brought in new residents who made it a warped exaggeration of itself.”
Good thing there’s no one in Manhattan like that.
what? you sell your houses for 2 millions with a 200% and 300% markup and lament that the newcomers do not act enough friendly or neighborly? it’s a real estate jungle market. who cares how one behaves? isn’t more important that $600K houses with quirky neighbors go for $2mil to stuckup ones?