<story><title>Success in Canada means moving to America</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-success-in-canada-means-moving-to-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Working in Canadian journalism, I’d often hear other editors reference the mythical former colleagues who had moved to New York—America, in this context, is always New York.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lots of Americans dream of either LA or New York, depending on their industry. I imagine in Europe, it&amp;#x27;s probably Paris and London that draws both French&amp;#x2F;British and foreigners.&lt;p&gt;Frank Sinatra  had a song called &lt;i&gt;New York, New York&lt;/i&gt; and one of the lines is &amp;quot;If I can make it there, I&amp;#x27;ll make it anywhere.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sort of inevitable that the largest city in the region draws talent and ambition and this gravity pool does not respect international borders. Though I wish we did a better job of fostering diversity of views from other places even within the US.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s something I&amp;#x27;ve lamented before: Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that&amp;#x27;s where so much of our popular media originates and is set.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>&amp;gt;Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior&lt;p&gt;In small town USA, the local culture usually is inferior. The local culture tends to be very monoculture. It&amp;#x27;s the larger cities where the culture tends to be more diverse. Getting out of small town into the nearest larger town opened me up to a hell of a lot more than the people that never left. However, even in that larger town, it&amp;#x27;s still limited. Yes, I eventually went to the west coast to have even more multi-cultural experience. Later, I even got to finally start travelling internationally to expand that multi-cultural experience further.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s a broad brush to paint with, but my local culture 100% was inferior, but I imagine it&amp;#x27;s not unique</text></comment>
<story><title>Success in Canada means moving to America</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-success-in-canada-means-moving-to-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Working in Canadian journalism, I’d often hear other editors reference the mythical former colleagues who had moved to New York—America, in this context, is always New York.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lots of Americans dream of either LA or New York, depending on their industry. I imagine in Europe, it&amp;#x27;s probably Paris and London that draws both French&amp;#x2F;British and foreigners.&lt;p&gt;Frank Sinatra  had a song called &lt;i&gt;New York, New York&lt;/i&gt; and one of the lines is &amp;quot;If I can make it there, I&amp;#x27;ll make it anywhere.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sort of inevitable that the largest city in the region draws talent and ambition and this gravity pool does not respect international borders. Though I wish we did a better job of fostering diversity of views from other places even within the US.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s something I&amp;#x27;ve lamented before: Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that&amp;#x27;s where so much of our popular media originates and is set.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coastflow</author><text>&amp;gt;” Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that&amp;#x27;s where so much of our popular media originates and is set.”&lt;p&gt;For additional evidence, the setting of most of “Breaking Bad” (now continuing as “Better Call Saul”) in Albuquerque, New Mexico led to meaningful economic benefits for people living there, such as increased tourism (from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.latimes.com&amp;#x2F;entertainment&amp;#x2F;envelope&amp;#x2F;la-xpm-2013-aug-07-la-fi-ct-onlocation-breaking-bad20130807-story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.latimes.com&amp;#x2F;entertainment&amp;#x2F;envelope&amp;#x2F;la-xpm-2013-a...&lt;/a&gt;).</text></comment>