it's funny because it's true.

 I do not know this mad genius, but this is so, so spot-on.

This came up when I was sharing "If Bostonians Loved Other Local Institutions The Way They Love Their Local Sports Franchises" with folks, which states that Connecticut

wants so hard to be part of New England but is actually just part of New York, and it knows it, and so it’s got all this twisted anti-Boston resentment.

I went to a prep school in Connecticut, and I can't speak to the anti-Boston resentment—most people have trouble understanding that I grew up in Western Massachusetts, not Boston, and that the Boston accent stops abruptly at Worcester—but that is absolutely Connecticut's level of New England-ness relative to its New York City-ness. I went to college north of Albany, NY, so the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/Rust Belt population was more diverse, and that's...still what Connecticut is like.

I am still on unemployment, which I'm happy to have, but it's also a grim window into the finances of living in the area; I'm sometimes amazed anyone is still here who's not making a Relative Fuckton of Money. Much like NYC, there are always the people here making $300k/year and moaning about the impossibility of making ends meet. Dig in a little bit and it's rarely hard to find big-ticket items they think of as "necessary" and the rest of the world thinks of as "costs a year's salary (or more)." At some point we'll get a plug-in hybrid. Is it going to be a BMW? Audi? A shiny Porsche Cayenne?

Dear Reader, it will not. Those are choices we make.

Do you have any idea how many musical instruments a Porsche could buy?!