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"New York City is a tough place to find love. The city attracts a lot of wacky, ambitious, Type &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; people looking for glory and money (not love). As I said before, ambition is antithetical to love. But I think women are better at balancing the two.Kurt Andersen wrote that New York is basically a &amp;amp;#8220;pageant of ambition.&amp;amp;#8221; Indeed, &amp;amp;#8220;New York&amp;amp;#133;is the undisputed national epicenter of no fewer than seven glamour businesses&amp;amp;#8212;finance, news media, advertising, book publishing, theater, fashion, and fine art, with serious players in TV, music, and the movies on the field as well.&amp;amp;#8221; If you&amp;amp;#8217;re after money, power, status, or fame, you move here. If you&amp;amp;#8217;re looking for love, you move to Paris. Now, most women want to be Carrie or Charlotte, but in reality, we are a city of Mirandas. Miranda is the typical New York woman. A conscientious worker, she is able to pay her rent, yet she tends to be unlucky in love&amp;amp;#8212;even though she does invest time in dating. You gotta love Miranda! She&amp;amp;#8217;s smart, funny, eats actual food, goes to the gym, pays her own bills, and still makes time to look for men. I think the decision to date someone consistently or seriously comes down to choice and timing, and men have more time to choose. Ergo, they have more options in the long-term. That&amp;amp;#8217;s quite a luxury! They can date around casually for at least a decade or two, move up in their careers, become successful, and then, when finally bored of themselves, turn their undivided attention to a woman. If you&amp;amp;#8217;re a man, your time is better invested holding out. So New York men prioritize their careers. They chase money, not women. Women, while career-minded, make an effort to give a guy a chance. Our priorities are not the same as men. To the New York man, time is money. If he&amp;amp;#8217;s going to spend the time and effort chasing a woman, she should offer a high return on investment (translation: supermodel). So while men are working and holding out for something they suppose is more desirable, they aren&amp;amp;#8217;t giving the time of day to the average Miranda. There is too much choice, time, and possibility in this glamorous city. So I have no choice but to hold out, too. I&amp;amp;#8217;m holding out for someone who really sees my value. He might as well think I could walk down a runway. I just hope he can cook like Martha. For real. Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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