For every person finding a cool scene in a new town there are residents declaring it dead.
My girlfriend would move to NY in a heartbeat because of the great scene she finds there, while our NY friends want to move here (Liverpool!)
It's odd how even the hottest city can cool on you when you get there.
Last time I was in Barcelona with my resident friends we were out every night, I said - " it must be great here with the nightlife" , they replied "since you arrived is the most we have gone out in a year!" they said "normally we just work and go to the local bar". It's not unusual.
Anyone read the pop-philosophical "the Art of Travel" by Alain de Botton? In part of it he details how he is tormented through a London winter by the thought of Barbadian beaches, white sand, waving palms. That is what he needs. He goes to Barbados.
when there he lies on the white sand beneath waving palms and thinks of an essay he needs to finish, he worries about a contract, he argues with his girlfriend which sours a romantic meal. He realises that these things didn't feature in his vision of Barbados, in fact , he and his problems were absent from the dream. THAT was what he wanted really, his worries - absent!
but travelling to barbados only made them more visible by their incongruity in such a beautiful surrounding.
often we travel just to see where we came from more clearly.
personally I like the idea of oscillating between different places rather than moving permanently. I am a bit stupid and require a lot of perspective shifting to figure out what I really need. If I'm in any place too long it stops inspiring me.
