I’ve been looking for a way to articulate that… Most employees suck because they do not have a genuine inner drive to do their job. They don’t even know why they’re required to do certain things because they’re omitted from the decision-making process entirely.

Work for yourself. Keep it up and the work becomes instinctive, especially if you have to starve for a while.

You are correct in saying the logic is a bit faulty there. That sentence should be clearer, say something like, “Based on the fact that we know Brooklyn has become the adopted hometown of many young adults, we can conclude that nearly any young adult declaring Brooklyn as their hometown is probably not actually from Brooklyn.” I’m talking here, of course, about the mass exodus of people who have moved to the area recently, in the past few months or past few years.

As far as what it means to be from somewhere, it sounds like ten years is a good amount of time to consider yourself native; I’d like to say that a place someone is from would be the place that a person was born in, but obviously there are exceptions: like if a person was born in another country when their parents were on vacation, or if a person was born in one state and then their parents immediately moved.

Which brings us to an important point. I suppose if a band was started in Brooklyn after its members moved there then that band would be considered from Brooklyn. I didn’t consider that in my assessment. Thanks for helping get us there, Andy.

What if I said, “based on the fact that we know most people like ice cream, we can conclude that nearly anyone claiming that they do not like ice cream actually does”. Just because a lot of people in Brooklyn aren’t from there, it doesn’t mean that most people who say they are from there aren’t.

Regardless, it seems to me that people move to Brooklyn (or queens) because (at one time anyway) it was a cheap way to live close to downtown Manhattan. As to Jersey City… well… try getting there on a subway.

Anyway, can’t a band be from a place without the individual members of the band being from that place? Speaking of which, how long must you live somewhere to qualify as being from there? I’ve lived here for 10 years, and I certainly don’t feel like I’m trying to misrepresent myself when I say I’m from Brooklyn. Where’s the cut off?

-Sincere regards
Truman