David Byrne on creative life in NYC: The Rent is Too Damn High

[Ocker3]

He Thinks the rent is too damn high, he should try living in Sydney!

[Sasha_Shepherd]

No, he shouldn’t.

Anyway, I have affordable rent in ‘Sydney’…a full 2 hours west of the CBD

When I first moved to Australia, I was looking at the website gumtree, and thinking ‘OK, these prices aren’t so bad, frankly a bit cheaper than I was expecting.’

Then I looked more closely, and realized all the prices I was reading were PER WEEK…

[leoooog]

New York has its share of tourists, too. I wave to the doubledecker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

David Byrne must be doing something wrong. These tourists will ordinarily wave at anyone.

[Brainspore]

@Spinkter

I think artists need to abandon “desirable” cities, and go find new places, perhaps “undesirable”, perhaps not, to go create and thrive, thus redefining which cities will become “desirable” in the future.

Of course, if artists move to places with NO wealthy people then they won’t have potential patrons around to buy their art. It’s a delicate balance.

[jandrese]

It’s probably the uncontrollable grouch waves coming off of him. This guy doesn’t look that old, but he’s already at full crotchety.