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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Sep 2018
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    London may be too complicated for me. I can sort of handle NY’s simpler geometry, and LA’s everything-is-cars is annoying but not actually hard. But London is like 50% higher cognitive burden than any other city. Seattle, DC are the right size cities for my brain.

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      2. Sameer Patel‏ @SameerPatel 19 Sep 2018
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        London = Boston.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Sep 2018
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        Oh yeah Boston is hard to navigate too

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      2. m_____g________n‏ @phantasmicool 19 Sep 2018
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        London and LA are very similar large organisms made up of many small villages that grew together, but I think that because so much of London travel occurs underground there’s no chance to piece together the whole in an understandable way vs traversing LA by car

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      3. Justin Cormack‏ @justincormack 19 Sep 2018
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        You have to walk and bus to get to know London, the tube does not help.

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      1. Mick Costigan‏ @micostigan 19 Sep 2018
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        Do the Knowledge! Expand your...[insert neurobollocks]

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      1. Sidu Ponnappa‏ @ponnappa 19 Sep 2018
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        I'm a Bangalore boy; when I first visited Bombay and shortly after Beijing, my head exploded. Real cities overwhelm me.

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      2. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 19 Sep 2018
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        This is how I feel about navigating the Bay Area compared to NY.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Sep 2018
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        The Bay Area is easy if you just avoid the city proper 😂

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      2. Alan Martin‏ @epithetos 19 Sep 2018
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        Illegibility has benefits. Particularly when you’re building stable cultural heterogeneity. :)

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Sep 2018
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        *If* it works at all... survivorship bias is strong among cities that aspire to be large. And how come you're up so early.

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