I live in NYC. That's a good assessment. It's a very cosmopolitan place in that every world culture is represented here. There are groups of people I never knew about until I moved here. Albanians in the Bronx? Fujianese Christian Chinese in the Lower East side? Etc.
However, once you're here, nothing outside of the city really matters. I think it's because of the structure of the city itself. It's huge and fast and inhuman and you're always busy and overwhelmed.
That said, world events are a popular subject amongst the literati crowd, but it's mostly just grist for the mill... so you have something interesting to talk about at brunch, or feel like you've got the right intel to make some money trading the yen against the pound, or whatever...
However, once you're here, nothing outside of the city really matters. I think it's because of the structure of the city itself. It's huge and fast and inhuman and you're always busy and overwhelmed.
That said, world events are a popular subject amongst the literati crowd, but it's mostly just grist for the mill... so you have something interesting to talk about at brunch, or feel like you've got the right intel to make some money trading the yen against the pound, or whatever...