On Leaving Park Slope

No, not me you morons, this dude:

"I am leaving Park Slope because I am increasingly impatient with people too socially deficient to act like good neighbors. People who won’t spare five seconds to help an old lady. People who can’t figure out their way around without checking their iPhones. People who don’t say hi to the neighbors with whom they share a stoop. These things are getting noticeably worse. Rather than stew here and become the local grouch, I’m recognizing that I have passed my expiration date in this neighborhood. Time to exit gracefully."

The post actually goes into quite a bit more detail if you'd care to live vicariously and fantasize about your own exit.

For the record, this dude is moving back to Manhattan to live in the Financial district. And while I hate to burst his bubble, that shit sucks way the fuck more than Park Slope (and yes, I speak from experience as a two year former resident there).

Luckily for us, he also tries to pinpoint the Park Slope suck-i-tude before his departure and he comes up with this gem: "My diagnosis: Park Slope’s reputation as a welcoming place went viral, and brought in new residents who made it a warped exaggeration of itself."

Hunh? Really? I don't think Park Slope is actually known as a welcoming place...unless you're a zygote.

Anyway.

Speaking of warped exxaggerations of one's self, is this guy gunning for the most pretentious writer of the year award with this explanaion about why he's done away with comments on his blog?: "...I feel writers ought to seize a maximum amount of control over the reader experience. Why should a writer let anonymous strangers add unedited footnotes to his or her work?...I will control which words appear on the site, because that’s my job" (oh and bold and italics are HIS).

Whoa dude, for realz?

a. YOU MUST CHILL.

b. Those unedited footnotes always rule the hardest.

Have fun in the FiDi, sucka!

(via Brownstoner)