cities starting to seem small

Coming from a tiny little place of 3,000 people as I do, I always thought it was sheer affectation when New Yorkers would go on and on about how Chicago felt “small” and “slow.” Chicago always seemed gigantic and infinite to me.

But after a decade in Cairo, I’m finally starting to see what the New Yorkers meant. After Cairo, Boston seemed pretty tiny (my first time there since setting foot in Egypt for the first time) and Providence is now beginning to seem positively claustrophobic.