You can't resettle me! A defense of New York by a stubborn inhabitant.
Saturday Evening Post › Nbr. 258, January 1986
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You can't resettle me! A defense of New York by a stubborn inhabitant.
YOU CAN'T RESETTLE ME]
Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell has aplan for moving people out of crowded cities into model villages where they will be comfortable. He believes that most of the inhabitants of a place like New York City live there needlessly and might better be somewhere else. He is beginning by transplanting workers in the needle trades, but it won't be long before he gets round to me. I am a resident of New York, and I could conceivably be shifted to a more plausible environment, but I don't want to be. I have no desire to be resettled. Hightstown, New Jersey, may be more comfortable than Manhattan Island, but I don't want to be comfortable. I just want to live in New York. However, I realize that this may sound stubborn of me, perhaps even un-American; and I feel under some compulsion to explain and justify my unnecessary presence in New York--if not to Dr. Tugwell, at least to myself--and to examine critically needless and beloved surroundings. Hightstown's Loss Live where one may, there is a kindof needlessness about it. This quality in life I find im...See the full content of this document
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