"People were amazingly generous with their time and information," he says. "And I was thinking, 'OK, this is not like New York.' "

Yeah so, you don't like us New Yorkers but you still stayed and roughed it for a while? You bearded ironic soldier, you.


"As the immigration has quickened, artists are moving into areas with more poverty and more crime. Places where the landscape features dunes of trash and crumbling brick. But also where those willing to reach out to neighbors struggling to get by can create an artistic nirvana. Make almost anything they can dream up. And do it in spaces with plenty of light at preposterously low rates for rooms so vast, the artists have to travel by skateboard to get from one end to the other."

Ok, at what point do your two legs become not good enough, where you have to use a skateboard to get around a room? 75ft? 115ft? 180ft? Oh, and those low rates will be high rates very soon, then you'll find another affordable place to live in another big city and watch those next landlords slowly rape you. Then, move again! See? It's easy to displace non-artsy people!


"It would be hard to match the ethnic and sociological mix in New York. Although he is white, he sensed hostility from some of the white ethnic neighbors around Kensington, who, he supposes, must have pegged him as an obvious outsider."

Great work Sherlock!

"Philadelphia's lack of pretension allows artists to take more chances, says Dillon, 26, who runs Copy Gallery on South 11th Street with several artist friends." "To do this in New York, you'd get scoffed at. . . . Here you can do whatever you want, and if nobody pays attention, who cares?"

Who cares? Nice stab at irony you douche, we know you care. Scoffed at? You wouldn't know hipster transplants were scoffed at when 1000's of them keep pouring into NYC. I'll keep scoffing though.