Is It Actually Possible For Anyone To Live In The East Village????????????????

                           I don't just mean financially, though that is a prime concern, girls.   And when I refer to the East Village, I am also including Alphabet City.

                              David and I often wonder about where to spend our retirement years.  After reading Tim Murphy's novel, "Christadora," in 2017, (and determined to reread it again) the idea of living in the East Village fascinated me.  And over the years, I have been there--for meals, social calls, movies, you name it.  But truth be told, I always found it isolating.  To get to any of my doctors from there would be equally as challenging as from Brooklyn.  To get to other places I go to--bookstores and such--would be just as difficult.

                                Same goes for the Upper East Side.  Much as I would love to live on Sutton Place, and though I would have the luxury of public transportation, it is still isolated.  Probably quiet, but not convenient.

                                    When I was very young, I thought the only places in Manhattan worth living were the Upper West Side, and the West Village.  And, you know, that has not changed.  The East Side of Manhattan I still regard as the equivalent of Queens.

                                       I lived there once.  I don't wish to ever go back.