what are the most /lit/ cities in America? I'm thinking about moving to one to begin my literary career. NYC?

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Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:07:51 2018 No.11935161 [DELETED]

what are the most /lit/ cities in America?
I'm thinking about moving to one to begin my literary career. NYC?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:11:44 2018 No.11935187 NYC was /lit/ in the 70s and 80s. Now /lit/ means living with your parents while getting you YA books published. Also, you have to be a woman, there is no future (or need) for men in literature.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:14:13 2018 No.11935197 yo that is a fucking BASED vid op straight up unironically

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:14:24 2018 No.11935200 >>11935161 >/lit/ cities These do not exist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:16:43 2018 No.11935207 >>11935161 >that fucking block Even though the kid's a total weakling that guy's reaction time is really good. Look, his heart rate probably hasn't even increased.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:16:46 2018 No.11935208 File: 139 KB, 331x10000, 1538890096991.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11935200 >These do not exist. so it really doesn't matter at all where I'm located? networking and proximity to publishers are irrelevant?

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:17:30 2018 No.11935212

>>11935161
I live in NYC. It’s lit in the sense there are a lot of writers, book stores, readers, etc., but it’s not like people sit at cafes and discuss ideas and publish work as they rise through the ranks of the literati. Everyone just works, drinks, posts on instagram and tries to make rent, just like everywhere else.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:19:02 2018 No.11935219 >>11935207 he was probably a boxer or something

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:19:24 2018 No.11935224 >>11935208 Why would they be relevant in the age of digital telecommunications?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:20:28 2018 No.11935229 >>11935224 why wouldn't they be? screenwriters still have to be in Los Angeles don't they

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:21:17 2018 No.11935235 >>11935161 based fundamentalist Christian defuses a situation as Jesus would

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:40:48 2018 No.11935298 >>11935161 In some animal species the dominant male will not even respond to challenges from weaker males. The guy with the repent shirt could easily kick the shit out of that little dweeb, but chooses to mock him instead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:43:18 2018 No.11935315 >>11935298 that kid is lucky it got blocked the dude he was trying to punch has a neck like a hog and wouldn't have been knocked out or even wobbly and would have proceeded to give him a major beating

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:58:53 2018 No.11935383 move to st. louis i’m lonely

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:59:53 2018 No.11935390 Isn't New Orleans still pretty /lit/?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 01:26:21 2018 No.11935461 >>11935161 >>11935453 that guy is absolutely based

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 01:51:35 2018 No.11935560 >>11935161 Charlotte, North Carolina

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 02:32:37 2018 No.11935668 >>11935298 >>11935315 My frame is like the featherweight twink's. Goddamn

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 04:32:03 2018 No.11935960

>>11935161
>city is what defines individual creation
>imma be hip, bag chicks, ride wheels and maketalk shows
>spends 20 years doing hell knows what because ''is looking for inspiration''
>career never takes off, if ever has any glimpse of self consciousness either kills it with cheap vine or a bullet
I am betting, what are my odds?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 04:35:53 2018 No.11935965 >>11935560 too much banker. Asheville's sort of lit, but it's not really a city, just a large town.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 04:38:42 2018 No.11935974

>>11935161
NYC still is, but way less so. Avoid manhattan and the nearby brooklyn areas that trust fund hipsters have destroyed. Queens, bronx, east brooklyn can still be good, while still be easily connected to manhattan if you need to go to some event.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 04:47:39 2018 No.11935988 >>11935161 Link the full youtube video lol this looks great.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 07:00:51 2018 No.11936234 >>11935453 checked and redpilled

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 07:11:39 2018 No.11936249 >>11935161 Baltimore, DC, Miami, NYC, Seattle, Portland, Boston are the most literary cities in no particular order

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 07:14:46 2018 No.11936255

>>11935212
How do poor people afford to live in nyc, serious question. How do cabbies and people working at Tony's pizza make it.

I have a friend who makes 6 figures working in medical software but he is floored at how expensive new york is especially rent. By his estimation his salary is like making 50-60k anywhere else, which is comfortable but still.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 07:22:37 2018 No.11936274 >>11935229 No? Your retarded. You also don't network with publishers that's the agents job. Seriously, are you twelve?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 08:08:02 2018 No.11936366 >>11935161 Detroit

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 08:14:26 2018 No.11936386 File: 123 KB, 660x495, 7B41051B-824E-406A-86CF-DFC3A353EEFB.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11936249 >Miami

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 08:18:45 2018 No.11936403 >>11936249 >DC All the homosexuals and yuppie bugmen would indicate otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 08:21:05 2018 No.11936411 >>11936255 I lived comfortably in manhattan on 60k while simultaneously supporting a massive heroin addiction, so I don’t know what you mean. That means I could have lived on 30k, since I spent half my aftertax income on heroin.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 08:26:35 2018 No.11936426 >>11936255 If a person is willing deal with other poor people then they would just live in "the projects".

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 09:30:59 2018 No.11936619 >>11935161 MADLAD A D L A D

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 10:06:54 2018 No.11936733 >>11935560 Charlotte is almost entirely devoid of a discernable culture, which is impressive given its size and economic prosperity. What are you talking about? t. lived in Charlotte for five years

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 10:12:21 2018 No.11936749 NYC, Boston, and Seattle.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 10:34:08 2018 No.11936825 >>11935315 He would turn the other cheek if he had any conviction.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 10:34:57 2018 No.11936827 >>11935390 No, it's mostly just black people now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 11:05:52 2018 No.11936918 >>11935161 Link to vid?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 11:57:38 2018 No.11937115 >>11935207 You can see him look the kid up and down and immediately brace for something.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:27:55 2018 No.11937218 >>11935161 >Atheist kid is your enemy >the nazi dude is Jesus >the hell dude is you based

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:30:21 2018 No.11937235 >>11935187 Should I start writing YA? Is that all that actually sells?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:33:24 2018 No.11937255 >>11935668 Eat a dickload of protein and fat Lift weights Don't be Asian (their metabolisms are too efficient or something)

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:36:09 2018 No.11937269 The most /lit/ cities in the good ol' US of A are, in no particular order >Boston >Charleston, SC >Philadelphia >Tulsa

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:38:04 2018 No.11937276 >>11936918 >>11935207 >>11935988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS3LcCNR3nk&feature=youtu.be

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:38:44 2018 No.11937280

>>11936255
Most of them live in the slummy, non-cool outer areas with roommates, or they commute from fucking new jersey. Presumably. Most parts of brooklyn look like a trash heap and the other outer boroughs are even worse. You can pay a million bucks in rent to live in the hipster gentrified enclaves, or you can live in the crime filled slums and risk getting jumped every day.
>>11936411
>manhattan
What part and how many years ago?
NYC is the only city I really like here but the rent prices drive me nuts. I don't mind a leaky, drafty shoebox, but I refuse to have roommates. Fuck that. San Fransisco has alright parts and nice weather but the crime and hobos are out of control. NYPD actually does their job. It's a shame because otherwise the bay area could have been heaven on earth, but no, gotta let the hobos have the run of the place. They're even worse than the negroes at this point. At least blacks are toilet trained.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:40:03 2018 No.11937282 >>11935161 there are no lit cities anywhere on earth, there havent been any good books published for decades, our culture is dead and our civilizaton is collapsing

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 13:11:19 2018 No.11937431 >>11937282 It's all about Seoul my guy. Han Kang is actually writing really good stuff

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 17:43:47 2018 No.11938822 >>11937269 >>Charleston, SC this one is intriguing. how is it?

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 18:09:17 2018 No.11938949

>>11938822
I feel like it gets ignored in discussions of /lit/ cities because its status as a colonial trade hub in the South gets overshadowed by other notable southern cities, particularly Atlanta and New Orleans.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CREV/letter09.html
This is what got me interested in Charleston as a historical city.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 18:22:07 2018 No.11939009
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>>11936386
I can imagine living in Miami and being somewhat /lit/. Wander around in a linen shirt, drink on the beach, watch the ocean lap the waters, write poetry about that beautiful Cuban girl you saw the other night. It could be pretty /lit/, if you did it right.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 18:32:55 2018 No.11939046 File: 26 KB, 390x432, DjoMgwdX0AA8Yze.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11937269 Tulsa is /lit/? More info please

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 18:46:39 2018 No.11939101
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>>11939009
>>11936386
Miami can be pretty /lit/. Like Charleston, there's a lot of well preserved architecture, though it's not as old. Miami was also a winter getaway for very wealthy WASPs before it became a nightclub for Cubans and Jersey Italians.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:03:05 2018 No.11939167 >>11935161 You have access to the internet, but still believe important cultural centers exist physically?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:04:33 2018 No.11939173 >>11939009 That's exactly why I said it was /lit/ in the first place. I actually did EXACTLY what you described this summer

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:05:49 2018 No.11939180

>>11937276
>people standing on the street shout
>"YOUR FORCING YOUR OPINION ON ME"
Honestly don't understand this. How can someone force their opinion on you by talking to the open air? Ignore them. I don't get it. How simplistic of a person do you have to be.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:07:32 2018 No.11939188 >>11939173 Did you visit Hemingway's house in Key West?

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:09:32 2018 No.11939198

>>11939009
>being /lit/ is submersing yourself is meaningless artifacts of base hedonism and simplistic emotion, and waxing poetic about it
I'd tell you you're wrong, but half the best books ever written aren't about anything more than people being animalistic and over-rationalizing the significance of their actions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:10:30 2018 No.11939201 >>11939009 Miami is nothing like that, unless your rich. If not, it's exactly like just a massive suburb, and you're going to live in a shithole apartment that's an hour drive from the beach.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:27:55 2018 No.11939286 >>11937276 Where is this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:55:27 2018 No.11939409 >>11939188 Nah, I didn't have a car and didn't want to spend a whole day on a bus. I plan to visit his Cuba house in three years though

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:57:02 2018 No.11939412 >>11939201 You can get a two bedroom apartment in South Beach for like 1500. So only 750 with a roommate. Miami is amazing. Can't wait to go back

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 21:02:43 2018 No.11939651

>>11939412
This. Why does everybody assume that every big city is like New York, or Los Angeles? There are tons of large, interesting cities where it doesn't cost nearly as much to live as it costs in the major bicoastal cities. I live in Dallas,
Texas, and I have an extremely nice apartment that costs me what it cost to share an apartment in Brooklyn. My Dallas apartment has central heating and air conditioning, too, along with a washer, dryer, and dishwasher.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 21:37:39 2018 No.11939788 >>11936366 I wanted to spend a nice comfy morning walking around John K King books but they made me leave my coffee up at the front desk, I was so annoyed but too autistic to show any actual frustration to the help

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 23:20:49 2018 No.11940187 >>11935560 Lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 23:23:36 2018 No.11940202 >>11936249 >DC The only books people in DC read are Hillary's boring memoirs and all the countless "inside looks" at how CrAzY the DRUMPF white house is.

Anonymous Tue Oct 16 00:13:06 2018 No.11940348

>>11937269
This seems fundamentally wrong just based on literary output of the cities. Nowadays only Boston is really pumping out anything and that's mostly because of all the universities more than a real entrenched literary culture like New York. The others are historically interesting but fundamentally not very /lit/

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 00:20:32 2018 No.11940370 >>11936749 seattle is a heroin camp

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 00:21:08 2018 No.11940374 >>11939412 >actually living in south beach tourist please calm down

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 00:25:54 2018 No.11940383 Move to IV and sell drugs to trustifarians to support your literary lifestyle. Either that or Imma move to Olympia and buy drugs from wook trustifarians.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 00:28:28 2018 No.11940396 >>11940383 Yeah honestly I think oly is pretty /lit/ it's degrading, has plenty of interesting artists, weirdos, and scary people, and in the nice pnw.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 00:39:41 2018 No.11940430 > The world starts and end with USA. Everyone has guessed it would be better to leave you staying in your sandbox.

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