Everyone in their 20s should live in NYC
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Live in NYC once, but leave before it makes you hard
My reflections, followed by a little quiz + some wisdom Everyone in their 20s should live in NYC. You’ll emerge more actualized, cooler, more successful than you could have dreamed. The city isn’t kind, it just asks more of you than anywhere else will, and you rise to meet it before you’ve noticed you’re doing it. This is the place I cut my teeth. My first adult internship was sales and trading at JPM, at 383 Madison, the old Bear Stearns building where I never saw sunlight and felt the ghost of the GFC. I learned very quickly that I knew nothing and my college degree had not set me up…
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