| Homes define New York City. More than any of | | | | American Capitalism. So, homes here are more |
| the cultural attractions the city is known for, the | | | | expensive than just about any place in the world. |
| one feature of the city that sticks out in most | | | | So expensive here, in fact, that real estate |
| people's minds when they visit the city for the | | | | concerns sometimes parry in people's minds even |
| first time is the endless - as far as the eye can | | | | with the holy grail of all human existence, love. |
| see - ocean of buildings. The vast majority of | | | | Stories abound in real estate offices here of |
| these are residential, and there is the fundamental | | | | couples that either did or didn't get married at a |
| New York City in a nutshell: Gone are the suburbs, | | | | certain time because of concerns over NYC |
| gone the typical city's dance of urban and | | | | apartments. |
| suburban; gone the grassy fields at the edge of | | | | For every example of the couple that had known |
| town... In New York, all is city, and thus all is | | | | each other for a few weeks before deciding to |
| mankind's culture. | | | | snatch up a great condo, there are stories of |
| This overwhelming sense of a culture permeating | | | | those loving partners who simply loved their |
| all the physical space of one's existence shines in | | | | home neighborhoods more. When it came time to |
| much of the world's memory. Some are disturbed | | | | move in, they just couldn't settle on a place. So, |
| by it, but many are enthralled. Indeed, much of | | | | their relationship drifted for a while, and |
| the city's population first came to the city and | | | | relationships that drift are relationships that might |
| saw the city's lights and bars, nightlife and endless | | | | die: And so the prime part of human supply and |
| ocean of buildings for the first time with a certain | | | | demand - the need for shelter, or - the real |
| powerful sense of awe. | | | | estate market, runs up from the most mundane, |
| There is a downside, though, to so much of the | | | | practical part of life to bid challenge in mankind's |
| world recollecting New York City with starry-eyed | | | | mind with the loftiest emotion of all. |
| thoughts: the worlds a big place, and though you | | | | But then again, great New York apartments are |
| wouldn't know it by looking out at those New | | | | quite hard to come by. Almost as hard as great |
| York apartments, that ocean of buildings does | | | | lovers. So, here in a city where man has covered |
| end, and it just can't fit the whole world. | | | | the vast majority of nature with tar, concrete |
| And this is the modern world, so the laws of | | | | and buildings, real estate can be as important for |
| supply and demand waxes powerful just about | | | | some as love. |
| everywhere, especially in NYC, the seat of | | | | |