I recently just got back to New York from Boston. During the trip I continued a long standing meditation I have with myself — figuring out what relatives a city would be.

Example

If San Francisco is a nurturing mother
then New York is a strict father
and Los Angeles is a bastard child
Under the circumstances that caused me to visit Boston (an aritifical intellignece conference), I came to the conclusion that Boston is your dweeb cousin.

But the relationships are not set in stone. They fluctuate depending on the organizing analogy. In other words. The following only holds IF we imagine SF as a nurturing mother.

If San Francisco is a drunk uncle
then New York is a distant cold father
Los Angeles is your bitch step-mother
Boston is your pretentious older brother.

How do you see the cities that you know best? Holla at a brother.

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