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