I could never really figure out why people would live in a kibbutz. I'm such a city girl.
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If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons. They've come to get a job or follow their friends or to be at the center of a scene. That's why we pay the high rent. Cities are all about the people, not the infrastructure.
I've always lived in a city.
In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.
Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them.
One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.
I wanted more people from my city to be able to have the kind of opportunity that I had.
People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.
New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.