tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post1181581217158780099..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: What your great-grandmother recognized as de-frizzing serum UPDATEDPhoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-17630188604233275132012-12-03T17:04:15.126-05:002012-12-03T17:04:15.126-05:00You're taking this too literally. I will say M...You're taking this too literally. I will say Manhattan, and then the question comes, where in Manhattan, and the answer is, I'd rather not talk about it. Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-38392506262643271632012-12-03T17:02:29.906-05:002012-12-03T17:02:29.906-05:00Why I'm evasive when people ask me where I'...<i>Why I'm evasive when people ask me where I'm from, and, deeming "New York" too vague, keep pressing. I will not name the neighborhood. That alone, if you know enough about the city to be digging, should be your answer.</i><br /><br />"New York" really is kind of vague, though, in the same way that I'll press people when they say "DC" or "Houston" or "Dallas": too many people say they're from there when they're actually living in a suburb rather than the city proper. Plano is not Dallas. And it matters for all sorts of things like whether I think you probably went to public school (if you're middle class/UMC and live in Plano, sure -- it has some of the better public high schools in the country; if you live in Dallas, probably not). Surely there's some not-overly-specific equivalent for NY like "in the District" (DC) or "inside the Loop" (Houston), maybe "Manhattan"?PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.com