A Real New Yorker?

After watching about a dozen episodes of How I Met Your Mother...


1. Wow people really love New York.


2. I really want to be "a real New Yorker".


3. Could I ever be "a real New Yorker"? 
It's so big and wild and dirty. (In all possible dimensions)


4. Could I ever come to love a city that I (only) work in? That I didn't grow up in or went to school in? Could I ever come to love New York like (or, as much as) I love Seoul?


5. And I'm not even there yet! -_-;;;


6. And who knows? I might end up in DC or Boston, even.


7. But I think it might be possible if I build real friendships there. I guess it's the same anywhere.. We probably fall in love with a city not because of grandios itself but because of the memories we build there.


8. (Slightly unrelated to HIMYM) I am slowly coming to terms with the idea that what I want is approval (and perhaps even envy?), not 'the intellectual challenge' or 'to see the world out there' or 'to see how far I can go'. Because if those were the things I really wanted, I would be studying, not watching tv all day.