I think the elevator in my building is a perfect metaphor for New York city...bear with me...
When we were first shown the building, all I noticed was that the walls of the elevator were covered in graffiti! The very picture of urban blight.
A couple of months after we moved in, I took a moment to actually read the graffiti: "Bach!", "Ravel", "Beethoven sucks!", "Tchaikovsky 4 eva", and so on. Turns out, we live 2 blocks from the Manhattan school of music.
When we were first shown the building, all I noticed was that the walls of the elevator were covered in graffiti! The very picture of urban blight.
A couple of months after we moved in, I took a moment to actually read the graffiti: "Bach!", "Ravel", "Beethoven sucks!", "Tchaikovsky 4 eva", and so on. Turns out, we live 2 blocks from the Manhattan school of music.