Rocco, I appreciate your engagement. Your deep knowledge of urban life has helped me differentiate between “get me out of this nation” and “I want to live in a European city.”
These writers you reference- I’m sympathetic to their hardships. But. My first edit when I post pretty tough thoughts on religion or family trauma is to look at pronouns. If they are 2nd or 3rd, I damn well better back them up with facts.
The point is, your writing is helping me identify where I want to be and who I want to be wherever I am. Your writing starts with intellectual honesty, and that’s all anyone can ask.
I really appreciate that and I appreciate your comment. It's very easy to get caught up in how you see the world. I really do think the urban-suburban divide is real and impacts the whole move abroad conversation and experience than it gets credit for. But, as you pointed out, at the individual level, there has to be empathy. I do hope I've shown out even though I do realize it's often missing.
Rocco, I appreciate your engagement. Your deep knowledge of urban life has helped me differentiate between “get me out of this nation” and “I want to live in a European city.”
These writers you reference- I’m sympathetic to their hardships. But. My first edit when I post pretty tough thoughts on religion or family trauma is to look at pronouns. If they are 2nd or 3rd, I damn well better back them up with facts.
The point is, your writing is helping me identify where I want to be and who I want to be wherever I am. Your writing starts with intellectual honesty, and that’s all anyone can ask.
Hit send too quick…
Lol. I do that all of the time.
I really appreciate that and I appreciate your comment. It's very easy to get caught up in how you see the world. I really do think the urban-suburban divide is real and impacts the whole move abroad conversation and experience than it gets credit for. But, as you pointed out, at the individual level, there has to be empathy. I do hope I've shown out even though I do realize it's often missing.
I write a lot. For work. Writing follows a three step: understand, articulate and share.
There is a big difference between articulate and rant. The latter is the one/sided variants on “it’s so bad here compared to X”.
By all means people should write to help them understand, however ranting is boorish.