Relocating To A New City Gifts

Airport this way.

"Living in a city with functional infrastructure must be so boring."

"Tight......this isn't tight...now a New York City apartment......that's tight."

"M'lady, we’ve reached peak Brooklyn."

Carefree luggage.

THE PIED PIPER OF GRAMERCY PARK

We're here at House of Java cafe at an all-too-familiar scene. House of Java.net Cybercafe. Tommy Jones, a local boy, has been caught stealing a scone. A minor offense? Not to the cafe's proprietor. He's demanding the boy be sentenced as an adult. But I'm eight! Wahhh! Add a year to the sentence for whining and crying.

Omara Portuondo

Handbag store - "Perfect."

The Henderson's move to a vertical city took some getting used to.

Woman dreaming about being on vacation.

Culture Saturday

'We need to change our luck. Let's move our headquarters to Redmond, the home of Microsoft.'

"It's the sequel to 'Cooking for One'."

Relaxing in the Sun

'Looks like Reginald wasn't kidding when he said he's going to start urban farming on the roof...'

Man at penthouse party walks out onto terrace and is startled to see the Earth, instead of the moon, shining in the sky.

Why Cows Leave Home

"You had the power to leave all along - just click your heels three times, grab your coat, and sneak out without saying goodbye."

Sign: 'Welcome to Fernbanks. Beneath our quaint Norman Rockwell-ish exterior beats a big-box chain store heart, ready to sell out at the drop of a hat.'

Lift buttons read: East Side/West Side/All Around the Town.

"Excuse me, I think you'll find I've reserved that luggage rack space ..."

"Right now it's between you and two hundred and fifty other people who came to Seattle, moved in with five roommates, joined a band, took a job in a coffee bar, got fed up, had a meeting with themselves, and decided it was time to go out and find a real job."

Of course I always start off by wooing a prospective candidate with talk of stimulating work,great colleagues and a reasonable work life balance...but the winning argument is always when I promise them enough money to choke a rhino.

The stages of gentrification: a guide

Kensington Fluffies

Birds on a wire, "Bernie?...Oh he's gone cable!"

'I remember when all this was fields.'

'It's a sign of the times, a high rise block of caves reserved for hermits.'

Blok drives by New York City.

Converted Parking Garage

". . . and if I hadn't made that wrong turn at Zlendar-5, I wouldn't have wound up at Happy Harry's and I wouldn't be sitting here with Good Ol' Larry Peterson!"

"Your animal companionship is here!"

"I like New York, but I miss sleeping drunk on my front lawn."

Welsh practice launches formal objection to 'unmanageable' new housing.